vulgarized

Example Sentences

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Things are put a good deal more strongly in the film, although they have not vulgarized but only underscored James’ subtext.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Ninotchka’s personhood is diminished, even as the composer’s work is vulgarized.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2016

And, in a vulgarized form Rand would almost certainly reject, they have spread even further since her death in 1982.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2014

In a cri de coeur written in retrospect, the Boston architect Rodolfo Machado lamented that the postmodernist critique of Modernism had been misunderstood and vulgarized in kitschy banalities built across the country.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2014

And I know that even that lumbering camera coming clumsily to its tripod ambush neither disgusted nor vulgarized him.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)