Ngobese said it supported the nationalisation of mines, but not as a means of using government money to bail out failing business to benefit the owners, which it regarded as "vulgarisation" of the ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
It signifies usually the vulgarisation of humour, and the degradation of mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference
Everything else was either a preparation for, or else (in the French sense) a vulgarisation of, these. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Hugo's descendants took offence at what they considered to be the exploitation and vulgarisation of his work. From Wordnik.com. [Eva Hemmungs Wirten: No Trespassing] Reference
Baron Haussmann had not yet arisen; and the capital's vulgarisation under the Second Empire had not then begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Christopher Monckton 2 papers I wrote recently on these topics but in French and for vulgarisation in Free Thinkers reviews. From Wordnik.com. [Gore Gored: Monckton replies « Climate Audit] Reference
Kenneth Clark's guided tour of European art is the greatest success of haute-vulgarisation since Malraux's Voices of Silence. From Wordnik.com. [TV Guide] Reference
Of additional interest in this regard is the gross vulgarisation of the message our President sought to convey when he wrote about the racist stereotype of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The second, larger but still fairly small, is reserved for works of what the French call "haute vulgarisation," of which Mrs. Tuchman's new book is a fine example. From Wordnik.com. [Tuchman and History] Reference
Of additional interest in this regard is the gross vulgarisation of the message our President sought to convey when he wrote about the racist stereotype of Africans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
And here's a thought for all members of the sorts of Londoner who abhor the vulgarisation of their imaginary "village communities" yet buy all their books from Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [West Hampstead: shopping, homogenisation and resistance] Reference
Robert Conquest is one of those rare gifted beings who can combine in one book the results of research, documented and footnoted, with the haute vulgarisation thereof. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin's Two Famines] Reference
Blair liked wars because he believed in making the world anew to some academic blueprint, or in his case to its vulgarisation for consumption by the uncultured likes of him. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Inevitably, ignorance of Marxism by "Marxists" leads to the vulgarisation of Marxism, the mouthing of revolutionary-sounding but empty phrases, dogmatism and political adventurism. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Black artists in particular have as a result been victims of the most extreme forms of cultural exploitation and degradation, including the vulgarisation and debasement of authentic indigenous art and cultural forms. From Wordnik.com. [POSITION PAPER ON THE CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC BOYCOTT Adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress] Reference
When Freeman Dyson engages in haute vulgarisation — the art of translating difficult (in his case scientific) ideas into layman's vernacular with style — he turns into a hero of mine whose writings I try never to miss. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Things] Reference
There are some other aspects of even more definite vulgarisation -- the presence of the tripper with his halfpenny newspaper, his bananas, and his mineral waters; there is also too much building here, and the prospect of more. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
What the leader of the DA said constitutes a shameless falsification of the positions of the ANC, an obscene vulgarisation of the objectives of the struggle for national liberation, and a dishonest representation of the political and ideological struggle in our country. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Highlighting the recent warning from John Cleese about the "vulgarisation of the BBC". From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The vulgarisation of modern life has come from the governing class; from the highly educated class. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference
Peggy Noonon in the Wall Street Journal called her selection "symptom and expression of a new vulgarisation in American politics". From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He had fine ideas, but she was to act them out, that is to apply them, and not he; and application was of necessity a vulgarisation, a smaller thing than theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
It appeared bold cynical curiosity, without the slightest manifestation of "loyalty," and it gave me a singular sense of the vulgarisation of Rome under the new regime. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
The New Yorker contributor draws parallels between the bearded eminences through a set of short essays that are part biographical sketches, part haute vulgarisation of cultural and scientific history. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake] Reference
Speaking purely artistically, we may say that this is as great a collapse or vulgarisation as if Richard Carstone had turned into a common blackguard and wife-beater, or Caddy Jellyby into a comic and illiterate landlady. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
Indeed, the course of vulgarisation among the responsible officials has now been under way for some appreciable time and with very perceptible effect, and the rate of displacement appears to be gathering velocity with every month that passes. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
(2) "Scooping" is the vulgarisation of the portamento, (3) Operatic singers grow stout because they drink stout; also because much singing tends to expand the larynx, pharynx and thorax, as well as the basilico-thaumaturgic cavities of the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914] Reference
"We discussed," said Verinder, "the vulgarisation of cricket. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
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