If this episode of Vanderpump Rules can teach us anything, it is that truth itself is a meretricious concept.
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"This cynical and meretricious abuse of power will poison our air and jeopardize the health of all Americans," Brown said.
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The 50th state has always seemed to me a meretricious luxury product whose visitors bring happiness with them in the form of money.
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Whatever the causes, as Soros-bashing spreads—the idea of his global meddling gaining a meretricious credibility with repetition—so do other troubling views.
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And how could we fail to be vexed by the fawning servility of a national media incapable of telling the beautiful from the meretricious?
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Obama's willingness to be honest about the West's imperial past led conservative critics to accuse him of conducting an "apology tour," a meretricious dodge.
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As the master of darkness who had been captured in darkness stepped into the bright light of Fort Lauderdale, he was his usual flamboyant, unapologetically meretricious self.
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The more someone writes, the more suspicious I am of his credentials—as if this person had neglected his actual vocation in favor of the meretricious enterprise of putting words on the page.
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"You rediscover some small things, spending time with the children and the family," keeping up with her father by Skype, noting that for once, social media is proving to be more beneficial than meretricious.
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Christina SwarnsCreditCreditDamon Winter/The New York Times The death penalty, like abortion, is one of those hot-button topics that keeps popping up into the public consciousness, a roach motel for meretricious ideas and bad public policy — including racism.
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While more orthodox Christians have kept him at arm's length or condemned him, he's wooed televangelists and prosperity preachers, and pitched himself to believers already primed to believe that a meretricious huckster with unusual hair might be a vessel of the divine will.
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Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the "American Dream" With his five — yes five — degrees from MIT and investments in huge wins like Stripe and Snapchat, General Catalyst Managing Director Hemant Taneja is one of Silicon Valley's most meretricious success stories.
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The most disturbing theme of the Trump campaign, in particular, is the feeling that it has unfolded in a meretricious theater of media complicity — the speeches rebroadcast at length (and cost-free) because they drive up Nielsen numbers, the televised "debates" extended to Wagnerian length so as to maximize advertising opportunities.
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Mr Blair's readiness to be an uncritical friend and well-paid advisor to the likes of Paul Kagame of Rwanda, a violent authoritarian, and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, a dictator, also raises concerns, while his apparent delight in the trappings of power—the private jets, the fleets of big, black cars and the phalanxes of security guards—is disappointingly meretricious.
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It also plays out in story strands that are well performed and produced — "Vinyl" is definitely HBO luxury goods — but not very compelling or fresh: the tension between Richie and his wife (Olivia Wilde), a former photographer and Warhol factory girl now stuck in the Connecticut house; the tension between Richie and his father (David Proval, a star of "Mean Streets"), a horn player who represents the jazz and blues roots Richie abandoned to peddle meretricious pop.
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Summing up, the reviewer concluded: "This book is heavily biased, meretricious, frequently inaccurate, and badly written. It cannot be recommended." A review in the 1962 Year Book of World Affairs similarly described the book as "highly confused and unreliable".
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"Light-arted operatic fare a la Carte – Opera". The Sunday Times, 7 April 1991 Most of the critics shared the public's disapproval of the production. The Times wrote, "The satiric point disappears in meretricious ado and humourless humour".Nightingale, Benedict.
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McCormick advances a few employees 5% of their pay. Dobbs argues for and gets 30% of his earning in cash. Weeks pass while Dobbs, along with Californian co-worker named Curtin seek the evasive contractor. The men spot McCormick in the central plaza, promenading with his meretricious mistress.
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Schwartz, p. 88 The composer firmly contradicted any notions that the work was programmatical in any respect, and Kennedy calls attempts to give the work "a meretricious programme ... a poor compliment to its musical vitality and self-sufficiency".Kennedy (1980), p. 268 The Fifth Symphony (1943) was in complete contrast to its predecessor.
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After Offenbach's death his reputation in France suffered a temporary eclipse. In Faris's words, his comic operas were "dismissed as irrelevant and meretricious souvenirs of a discredited Empire".Faris, p. 219 Obituarists in other countries similarly took it for granted that the comic operas, including Orphée, were ephemeral and would be forgotten.
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Paul Hoecker: Pierrots with Pipes, c. 1900. Location unknown.In Germany, Frank Wedekind introduced the femme-fatale of his first "Lulu" play, Earth Spirit (1895), in a Pierrot costume; and when the Austrian composer Alban Berg drew upon the play for his opera Lulu (unfinished; first perf. 1937), he retained the scene of Lulu's meretricious pierroting.
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By any sane cinematic standards, meretricious trash ... but thrown at you with such good-humoured glee that it's hard to resist. It's a bumper-sticker of a movie: honk if you love tits and gore! Honk honk honk." Christy Lemire, film critic for the Associated Press, said "Run, don't walk: Piranha 3D is hilariously, cleverly gory.
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The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics Blackbeard vigorously defended comic strips as worthy of study. "The comic strip is the only wholly indigenous American art form. . . . Only the tasteless and uninformed consider comic art trivial." He described comic books, by contrast, as "meretricious dreck," which may have marginalized him in the broader field of comic art.
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Gannushkin was a modest and diffident man and he disliked public speaking. When attending psychiatric conferences, he preferred to stay in the background. Only among fellow scientists and when lecturing to his senior students was Gannushkin able to speak his mind. An experienced clinician, he was a proponent of the natural science method who considered himself an enemy of pompous and meretricious declamation.
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Additionally, whether the API leads to any missing data is unsolved. As for systematic bias, like other metrics, altmetrics are prone to self-citation, gaming, and other mechanisms to boost one's apparent impact. Altmetrics can be gamed: for example, likes and mentions can be bought.J. Beall, Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea, 2013, Altmetrics can be more difficult to standardize than citations.
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New Providence, New Jersey: R.R. Bowker, 1989. . In a more critical review in The New York Times, Eugene Archer called The Crowded Sky "reprehensible" because it exploited human tragedy. His review noted "Possibly a meaningful film could be developed from this theme, but as directed with an emphasis on sensationalism by Joseph Pevney, the effect is as meretricious as it is harrowing".Archer, Eugene.
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Although critics proved hostile, with César Cui calling the symphony "routine" and "meretricious", both works were received with extreme enthusiasm by audiences and Tchaikovsky, undeterred, continued to conduct the symphony in Russia and Europe.Holden, 272–273. Conducting brought him to the United States in 1891, where he led the New York Music Society's orchestra in his Festival Coronation March at the inaugural concert of Carnegie Hall.Brown, The Final Years, 319–320.
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The meaning of the title is obscure. Hercules, as he was entering manhood, had to choose one of the two paths of life, that of virtue and that of vice. There appeared two women, the one of dignified beauty, adorned with purity, modesty, and discretion, the other of a voluptuous form, and meretricious look and dress. The latter promises to lead him by the shortest road, without any toil, to the enjoyment of every pleasure.
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Instead of such freedom, the middlebrows are "betwixt and between", which Woolf classifies as "in pursuit of no single object, neither Art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige." Their value system rewards quick gains through literature already designated as 'Classic' and 'Great', never of their own choosing, because "to buy living art requires living taste." The middlebrow are meretricious—which is much less demanding than authenticity.
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The tune is often used for comic effect in animated cartoon shorts, such as the 1932 Disney cartoon The Klondike Kid (starring Mickey Mouse) and various ones produced by Warner Bros. or MGM in the 1940s and 1950s, as a theme or leitmotif for a meretricious or zaftig woman. The song was the basis of a 1951 UPA cartoon Rooty Toot Toot, directed by John Hubley. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.
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It is a bold, reckless gesture." Edward Guthmann from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness." However, criticism was directed at its storyline. Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post described the film as "meretricious fakery" and called it "so unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke.
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He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education (1977–1983), and the Broadcasting Research Unit (1981–1991), as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1962–1988). In later works, such as The Way We Live Now (1995), he regretted the decline in moral authority that he held religion once provided. He also attacked contemporary education for its emphasis on the 'vocational', and 'cultural relativism' for its tendency to concentrate on the popular and meretricious.
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Perfect Promise, sired by Caesour out of Meretricious is a South African thoroughbred race mare who raced in Australia. On 11 February 2006, she claimed her first Australian Group One victory by winning the C F Orr Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne. She was bred by Heinrich Winterbach at Varsfontein Stud in the Western Cape,and sold to and raced by Peter Cowley during her South African career. Perfect Promise won the Cape Fillies Guineas Gr 1,the Diana Stakes Gr 3 and was 2nd in the Fancourt Stakes Gr 1.
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave I Am a Camera a bad review, finding it "meretricious, insensitive, superficial, and just plain cheap". Crowther was particularly appalled by John Collier's script, blasting it for largely abandoning both the Van Druten and Isherwood source material. He also sharply criticized the abortion material, deeming it a "capstone of cheap contrivance and tasteless indelicacy". Julie Harris he labeled a "show-off", while Laurence Harvey is "an anxious straight man for her jokes", with all parties directed by Cornelius with no eye to any subtlety of character.
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In rhetoric an argumentum ad captandum, "for capturing" the gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument designed to appeal to the emotions rather than to the mind. It is used to describe "claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or applause." The longer form of the term is ad captandum vulgus (Latin, "to ensnare the vulgar" or "to captivate the masses"); the shorter and longer versions of the phrase are synonymous. The word "vulgus" in Latin was a contemptuous reference, implying a rabble or a mob.
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Reviewers of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage have praised some aspects like the translation equivalents and censured others like the "instant" character indexing system. On the one hand, New York Times reporter Peggy Durdin calls the dictionary a "milestone in communication between the world's two largest linguistic groups, the Chinese‐speaking and English‐speaking peoples" (1972: 37). On the other, the American sinologist and historian Nathan Sivin says, "Despite a good deal of meretricious ballyhoo when it was published, Lin's book does not contain significant lexicographic innovations." (1976: 308).
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He worked in London and is particularly known for bold or extreme use and mixture of rococo, Chinese, and rustic motifs. He was said to be one of the most successful exponents of the rococo style, giving it a vitality not seen in the work of other designers. Among other works, he adapted scenes from Francis Barlow's illustrations of Aesop's Fables. Of excellent repute as a craftsman and an artist in wood, Johnson's original conceptions and his adaptations of other's ideas were remarkable for their extreme flamboyance, and for the merciless manner in which he overloaded them with thin and meretricious ornament.
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He adopts a subdued tone from a sense of decorative > fitness, his aim being to ensure the flat effect and the subordination > proper to mural backgrounds, as distinct from the meretricious illusion of > prominent relief and receding distances, which disqualifies the average > easel- picture from a place in any broad architectonic scheme. Mr. > Frampton's compositions, on the contrary, are instinct with a restful and > dignified serenity, no less satisfying than transcendental. As typical of > this phase of his work may be mentioned a large panel depicting a scene from > the legend of St. Brendan. The incident is one with which all readers of > Matthew Arnold's poems must be familiar—to wit, St. Brendan encountering > Judas Iscariot on the iceberg.
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Thayer wrote genre romances that were disliked by contemporary literary critics.Thirteen Women, by Tiffany Thayer at Neglected Books Page, February 13, 2011 Dorothy Parker, in a New Yorker review of An American Girl, said "He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically, and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing." F. Scott Fitzgerald said "curious children nosed at the slime of Mr. Tiffany Thayer in the drug- store libraries." Kunitz and Haycraft cited an anonymous reviewer who described Thayer's work as "obviously meretricious, but disclosing a narrative gift which might be used to better purpose".
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In modern timesSentimental began to accrue negative connotations in the 19th century. Before that it had been an adjective denoting "feeling", as in The Man of Feeling (1771), Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Flaubert's Sentimental Education (1869). "sentimental" is a pejorative term that has been casually applied to works of art and literature that exceed the viewer or reader's sense of decorum—the extent of permissible emotion—and standards of taste: "excessiveness" is the criterion;Wilkie took the example of Henry Clay Work's maudlin lyric of Temperance propaganda, "Come Home, Father". "Meretricious" and "contrived" sham pathos are the hallmark of sentimentality, where the morality that underlies the work is both intrusive and pat.
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She cuts the roses and puts them in vases, where they adorn her "meretricious vision of what makes for beauty" and begin to die. The roses in the vase in the Angela–Lester seduction scene symbolize Lester's previous life and Carolyn; the camera pushes in as Lester and Angela get closer, finally taking the roses—and thus Carolyn—out of the shot. Lester's epiphany at the end of the film is expressed by rain and the use of red, building to a crescendo that is a deliberate contrast to the release Lester feels. The constant use of red "lulls [the audience] subliminally" into becoming used to it; consequently, it leaves the audience unprepared when Lester is shot and his blood spatters on the wall.
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" Despite noting that "a lot of the concrete associations [MacMillan] tries to get across in the piece didn't ring true" with him, Dobrin concluded, "But music doesn't need, or even always benefit from, a tangible relationship with real life. The pure sonic experience is more than enough reason to justify the investment of mental adrenaline needed to listen." John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune later described the piece as an "arresting meditation" and wrote, "None of MacMillan's effects come across as meretricious, certainly not the murmurous Babel of mixed choral voices at the beginning or the magical hush of 'unborn' children's voices with solo violin at the end. Those two sections, 'Incarnadine' and 'Living Waters,' frame two darker central tableaux, 'Midwife' and 'Poppies,' that erupt in spasms of orchestral agitation undergirding powerful surges of choral declamation.
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In 1850 The Times was more complimentary: "The position and architecture of this structure are both extremely fine, and viewed from the railway it produces the best effect." At the Great Exhibition, which took place in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851, a model of the monument made of cannel coal was exhibited as part of the event's Mining and Metallurgy section. In 1857 William Fordyce wrote: "The temple is remarkable for its grandeur, simplicity and imposing effect, nothing in the shape of ornament or meretricious decoration being introduced". In his graphic novel Alice in Sunderland, which explores Lewis Carroll's connections to Sunderland, Bryan Talbot suggests that Carroll may have been inspired by the monument, comparing the door leading to the monument's stairs to a scene omitted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which Alice knocks on a door in a tree.
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He was especially popular among the followers of Rousseau. Francesco Maria Tassi (1716-1782), in his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects of Bergamo remarks that Zuccarelli paints "landscapes with the most charming figures and thus excels not only artists of modern times but rivals the great geniuses of the past; for no one previously knew how to combine the delights of an harmonious ground with figures gracefully posed and represented in the most natural colours". With the move to more representational modes of depicting landscape in the 19th century, negative criticism began to develop, as described by the art historian Michael Levey in a landmark 1959 article, Francesco Zuccarelli in England: Turner's view was restrained, saying Zuccarelli's work was "meretricious", lacking the charm and grace of Watteau, and yet his figures were "sometimes beautiful". Victorian writers, among them partisans of Richard Wilson, sensitive to the neglect of their favourite while the Italian flourished, used adjectives such as theatrical and insincere.
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