gimcrack

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• Too many of the other buildings around the lagoon had long since slipped and slid away below the silt, revealing their gimcrack origins, and the Ritz now stood in splendid isolation on the west shore, even the rich blue moulds sprouting from the carpets in the dark corridors adding to its 19th-century dignity. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
• Builders Jones Homes have lodged an application with City of York Council to pull down Fulford Road's Gimcrack Hotel, and replace it with 19 three-storey town houses.
• As soon as they arrive, Amelia excitedly shows Rebecca ‘over every room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her necklaces, brooches, laces, and gimcracks '.
• They're laboring to depict one man's ultimate nightmare through special effects bells and whistles, through laytex, CGI and all manner of postproduction gimcrackery when this character has already survived his ultimate nightmare - watching his young daughter die slowly of an inoperable disease. Stay scared
• The poor must be grateful for gimcrack blandness. Times, Sunday Times
• A ‘Whatsit,’ as you probably know, is defined as a gadget, tool, gimcrack, or gimmick whose purpose is not immediately apparent (to the uninitiated).
• The endless job of dusting and polishing the not-insignificant number of bibelots and gold-plated gimcracks awarded to Miss Katie, that job is mine as well. The Nervous Breakdown
• Too many of the other buildings around the lagoon had long since slipped and slid away below the silt, revealing their gimcrack origins, and the Ritz now stood in splendid isolation on the west shore, even the rich blue moulds sprouting from the carpets in the dark corridors adding to its 19th-century dignity. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
• You really expect me to believe your Vista system, with all the gimcracks and gewgaws enabled loads up in just 24 seconds? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another Stack Overflow
• Is she really here to sell gimcracks to the people of my realm? Pendragon Before the War