Glitz - yiddish for lots of gold and shine - tinselly. From Wordnik.com. [Kitschie, kitschie, ya ya da da...] Reference
His bullock wore bright red paper cones over its horns and much tinselly drapery over its nose and back. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
I showed up in slacks, only to find Ava and all Ray's sisters in floor-length dresses and tinselly hair ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
The Season of Platitudes - "peace on earth" - stays discreetly out of the way of national politics, off in its tinselly corner of the culture, ringing its bells for commerce and credit-card debt. From Wordnik.com. [Ignorant Armies] Reference
Répons, a piece Boulez wrote to show off his technology, toured the United States in 1986 and sounded like just another tingling and tinselly late-Boulez composition, helped not at all by its tired electronic sounds and naive light show. From Wordnik.com. [Unreconstructed Modernist] Reference
Meanwhile more than 80% of the electorate wish to have the right to give or withhold their whole-hearted consent to the Constitutional Treaty Mark II which Vanity Blair may have left as a well-concealed booby trap in Downing Street for the man he and his tinselly, gimcrack wife love to hate. From Wordnik.com. [Labour Voters Begin to Desert Brown On Europe] Reference
For instance, even now that Fifth Avenue has nearly completed its evolution (or, some would say, decline) into its current tinselly condition (read "the home of more and more celebrities," but really read "the home of more and more Jews"), Central Park still represents an enormous social chasm, between the East Side (read "fewer Jews") and the West Side ( "more Jews"). From Wordnik.com. [Eminent Domains] Reference
He has no military fervour, no tinselly patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo] Reference
The Symphony will present this tinselly holiday spectacular at 7:30 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
There is a tinselly halo about the writer of books that affects many minds the most. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
The place was so tinselly and common that, coming to it from weeks of rough travelling, it made me impatient. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
If you want to see a very evocative photo of the tinselly look at this color picture on the skyscraper's official website. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
In the huge shed of the wharf, piled with crates and baggage, broken by gang-planks leading up to ships on either side, a band plays a tinselly. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference
Unfortunately, the tinselly "small-town values" glittering in their marketing blitz don't seem to have much to do with the real values of my hometown. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
Following a cast of charismatic and often surreal characters, the doc goes beyond the tinselly glamour of Bollywood to explore some of the industry's darker sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Asian News - RSS feed] Reference
With Matt Cardle's larynx wreaking untold harshness on the nation's midwinter mellow, here's twinkly, tinselly proof that Christmas pop really was slightly better in the old days. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
There are turkeys to be reared and tree-shaped biscuits to be baked, but if you're tempted by the idea of a homemade tinselly advent candle contraption, let this be a cautionary tale. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
SPANGLES of gold may be used with admirable effect, at the risk, perhaps, of a rather tinselly look; but that has been often most skilfully avoided both in mediæval work and in Oriental. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
This man applies for and is awarded a job as a happy elf named Crumpet at Macy's Santaland, but he's sour, sardonic and bitchily accurate in his piercing descriptions of the tinselly world around him. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Scene] Reference
A Punch and Judy were acting on a little stage during the procession, surrounded by children of all sizes and ages decked out in costumes, their tinselly flowers showing off their thin and sallow faces. From Wordnik.com. [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference
His baits are always of a tinselly or shadowy nature, either worthless when caught, or altogether illusions, as useless to people in general as the gold chains and silk waistcoats are to these rough pirates. From Wordnik.com. [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference
Anyone who thought they had Ed Meadham and Ben Kirchhoff safely categorized were thrown back in their seats, mouths open at the sight of the color, flowered dresses, lace veils, and tinselly embroidery the duo piled into their collection for Fall. From Wordnik.com. [Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures] Reference
His Eastern costume was almost equal to that of the Dey in magnificence, but there was a tinselly look about the embroidery, and a glassy sheen in the jewels, which, added to the humorous and undignified cast of his countenance, bespoke him one of low degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate City An Algerine Tale] Reference
For the lobbyists who've spent such time and energy doing everything they can to protect the status quo, the fact that reform could die at the hands of the very Democrats who've advocated for it for decades is such a tinselly Christmas bonus it makes the plump stockings of Wall Street seem full of coal. From Wordnik.com. [Ottawa Sun] Reference
The Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein musical-comedy version of the 1978 film is still as tawdry and tinselly as ever, but this small-scale revival, which stars Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge, is so unfancy and heartfelt that it miraculously contrives to turn a show I've never liked into one that touched me to the heart. From Wordnik.com. [About Last Night] Reference
The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
‘Minstrel’ is too tinselly. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
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