Word: tinseled
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...story of the picture is not important. It tells of a Parisian mistress and how her tinsel world came tumbling all about her when the youth she used to love entered the gates...
...honest homespun play still holds the boards, and always will, but many a gold brick passes on its tinsel. Affairs might reach a worse state than this, for this at least is fire and food for Grub street, God bless its honest soul...
...fundamental principle of expressionism is the representation not of the appearance of a scene, but its meaning. A characteristic instance was the Fifth Avenue scene in Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape. Jewels were to the misplaced stoker only tinsel; so the shop window was filled not with gems, but tinsel. The wealthy churchgoers appeared to him automatons; so a squeaky procession of masked automatons marched across the stage...
...tinsel chandelier hangs from the ceilings...
...CRIMSON is criticized for "not doing its own thinking" and for being overcome by "tinsel and braggadocio." During the past two years we have not been blind to the events which have occurred outside of the sanctum, nor have we been deaf to the plentiful advice from both camps in this country. We have considered carefully the many questions leading up to the present issue, and have taken a clearly defined stand. Whether our position is the right one cannot be decided by any contemporary tribunal, but the accusation that this stand was taken unthinkingly and by the direction...