garishness
Example Sentences
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But it’s tricky to maintain a balance between eliciting sympathy for the central duo and making sport of them, in all their preening garishness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Critics tend to draw a hard line between the early, in-your-face garishness of Cronenberg’s low-budget films and the more polished, less bloody psychological meditations starting with 2005’s “A History of Violence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Director of photography Alexander Dynan uses a lighting scheme that can best be described as subtly oppressive, almost shroudlike, pressing down on the casino scenes, muting their garishness.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
I was trying to shed myself of the garishness of my past.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2017
Across his brow a constellation of acne had a new-minted look, its garishness softened by the sepia light.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
