"But I can't prove that wasn't because of Lady's gimcrackery.". From Wordnik.com. [She Is The Darkness]
Despite himself; Sam's face showed his interest in the electronic gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
If you're interested in anything deeper than cable gimcrackery, I recommend giving it a read. From Wordnik.com. [David Roberts: Cleaning Some of the Fox Off of Van Jones] Reference
In the old days, even short story writing was lucrative enough to merit gimcrackery classified ads. From Wordnik.com. [February 2008] Reference
(As in the Nuremberg Laws, the Jim Crow laws, South Africa's apartheid code, whatever legal gimcrackery Stalin used to prop up his show trials.). From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Sentiments] Reference
There's merit to both viewpoints but DotD08 squanders these possibilities in favor of shakycam braggadocio and ghoulish gimcrackery that played a lot better in PLANET TERROR 2007, which wasn't even that good either. From Wordnik.com. [Stick a fork in it] Reference
It can be seen as merely one of a number of different ways to get to or from Brooklyn or as the grandest sort of memento of a New York that was, a serene, aspiring emblem rising out of an exhilarating and confident age too often remembered solely for its corruption and gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Bridge] Reference
"The Darjeeling Limited" -- which opens the New York Film Festival this evening, and opens elsewhere beginning tomorrow -- is the first of Anderson's movies that has elicited even the mildest scrap of affection from me: I feel warmly toward it, although I reserve the right to remain wary of its aging-hipster gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [Salon reviews The Darjeeling Limited] Reference
"I don't know that Mrs. Green's gimcrackery expresses ours.". From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
But, now, macroeconomic gimcrackery like that is back in fashion. From Wordnik.com. Reference
You can watch the debates on CSPAN or PBS, and dodge the gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
At best soldiers are evils of the earth, and the pomp and pageantry of war mere gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857] Reference
Meanwhile, other funds continued to be spent on the usual high-tech gimcrackery-weapons that don't work, for enemies we don't have. From Wordnik.com. [Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking] Reference
Rather than reporting what the documents actually said, you were content to go through the motions, leaving the reader with the usual hackneyed conclusions and gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference
The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04] Reference
Even a desire to possess works of art is shown by Ionian pillars, specimens of pure Gothic, and other architectural gimcrackery, and these prove at least the search after improvement. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
He could make coffee, after the Turkish fashion, and had equipped himself for a long campaign with a most elaborate coffee machine, all glass and gimcrackery, which of course did not survive one day's travel. From Wordnik.com. [Bulgaria] Reference
It is my view that enough people actually want to know more than the gee-whiz gimcrackery of popular science magazines, and that if you make the information available in a proper manner, some will pick it up. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The rustle of skirts on the stairs without arrested Mrs. March in the well-merited punishment which she never failed to inflict upon her husband when the question of the gimcrackery -- they always called it that -- came up. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
But one day, when Melchior had crashed into Jean Michel's old piano, he swore as he rubbed his knee, and said that there was no longer room to move about in his own house, and that he would rid the house of all such gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
"The great Mr. Acton taken in by a bit of Palais Royal gimcrackery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Meanwhile, other funds continued to be spent on the usual high-tech gimcrackery — weapons that don’t work, for enemies we don’t have. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush] Reference
"Don't spoil it, for the sake of a few dollars; just get something that can stand on its own merits, and not have to be patched out with laces and ribbons and all sorts of other gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [In Blue Creek Cañon] Reference
“The Darjeeling Limited” — which opens the New York Film Festival this evening, and opens elsewhere beginning tomorrow — is the first of Anderson’s movies that has elicited even the mildest scrap of affection from me: I feel warmly toward it, although I reserve the right to remain wary of its aging-hipster gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [Salon reviews The Darjeeling Limited « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Rare old silver and mere gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch] Reference
Biochemical gimcrackery makes them. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Genre Project] Reference
They can't get any of that gimcrackery past you. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
"The gimcrackery," he answered. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
"Well, Basil, I didn't take the gimcrackery. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
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