All the tinsel of self-promotion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Around the broom, imitating tinsel, is wrapped the gauze from a bandage. From Wordnik.com. [Hess, Jay C.] Reference
Regardless of temperature, blizzards, or general apathy, the tinsel is tossed the first day of December. From Wordnik.com. [‘Tis the Season @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy] Reference
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. From Wordnik.com. [It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Perhaps it is that very quality which your ladyship calls wit, and I call tinsel, for which I dread being praised. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
NEW YORK - The holidays may be starting to crowd your to-do list, but one thing you shouldn't let get buried under the tinsel is your. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Though the "tinsel" of his embellishment is no longer even. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
He had an awful fancy hat and kind of tinsel stuff all over him. From Wordnik.com. [Roy Blakely, Pathfinder] Reference
25 March 2010 at 9: 43 am happy birthday to them! tinsel is verry pretty:). From Wordnik.com. [Twilight Lexicon » Happy Birthday Kiowa Gordon and Tinsel Korey] Reference
While doing the tree yesterday, I came across my little tube of pressed tin "tinsel" that I bought several years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Blisstree] Reference
And who is calling the tinsel tree tacky?. From Wordnik.com. [Polka Dot Cottage: An end to the (almost) silence] Reference
But beneath the spangle and tinsel, there's steel. From Wordnik.com. [If It's Saturday, Then This Must Be Tampa] Reference
This year, there's a lot less tinsel in Tinseltown. From Wordnik.com. [Embedded In L.A.] Reference
The tinsel trim and paper lanterns made the room festive. From Wordnik.com. [Goodnight Dogs] Reference
Laura pressed into Alene's hand a small tinsel-paper package. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
The sun had drained him of color, and my hair was dry as tinsel. From Wordnik.com. [By Christmas] Reference
That the gold of wealth was tinsel, as I since have learned it is. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
In Italy one soon tires and becomes disgusted with the glitter of tinsel. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Below, alone: a puny pine where Christmas tinsel hangs for holidays gone. From Wordnik.com. [PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen] Reference
In the fire he lost the tinsel and the color from his uniform, and when the. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Marseilles brandies, flimsy taffetas, and indescribable variety of tinsel gewgaws. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The breeze came over the willows so the willows twinkled like tinsel and the grass rippled. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Autumn] Reference
Specifically, a megadose of old-master art in a city best known for tinsel, Disney and fads. From Wordnik.com. [Another Tale Of Two Cities] Reference
She does not look sixteen and her crinkled hair drizzles around her face like bleached tinsel. From Wordnik.com. [The Line] Reference
The queen still wears a crown -- a tinsel one, received as a present from her sister-sovereign of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
It is like a circus clown dressed up in gold tinsel Dickens gives a fine example of it in Sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
"Christmas trees are composed or mulched and tinsel won't break down in this process," says Bongiorno. From Wordnik.com. [Decorating Sense] Reference
Body dark Peacock's herl, -- ribbed with gold tinsel, -- green silk, black, brown or red hackle over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
Body greenish herl of Peacock, -- ribbed with gold tinsel, -- wrapt with red silk, -- red hackle over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
"If you send a tree that still has tinsel on the branches … your tree will probably go straight to the landfill.". From Wordnik.com. [Decorating Sense] Reference
During the eighteenth century, also, a fashion set in of adorning engravings with pieces of cloth, silk, and tinsel. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
The bewildering tinsel of the stage no longer diverted, and he would have been astonished to analyze the reason why. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Tiny Christmas lights on green cord with crumpled strands of interspersed silver tinsel hung like so much seaweed from his hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Spaghetti] Reference
A love story set against Bombay's film industry, the show explores those age-old themes of ambition and tinsel, reality and fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Reviving The Past] Reference
Both imply that the tinsel should be stashed near the Easter baskets: the comet as well as the conjunction appeared in the springtime. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Star--Or Was It Planets?] Reference
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