How To Use Gimcrack In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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 '.
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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
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The poor must be grateful for gimcrack blandness.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ‘Whatsit,’ as you probably know, is defined as a gadget, tool, gimcrack, or gimmick whose purpose is not immediately apparent (to the uninitiated).
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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
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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
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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
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Is she really here to sell gimcracks to the people of my realm?
Pendragon Before the War
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The Frog and the City Arms have closed; time has been called on Layerthorpe Working Men's Club; and now builders Jones Homes want to pull down the Gimcrack on Fulford Road and build 19 three-story town houses there instead.
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If you find any, let us know and we'll document them through the day, with some kind of gimcrack rating.
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Serious weaponry: not the Ruger Mini-14s but a rack of M4s, all with high-tech red-dot optics, several crates of 5.56 NATO and 12 gauge, four short-barreled pump shotguns, some chemical crowd control gimcracks, a rack of gas masks.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to relegate the Wii to the realm of the gimcrack, but nor am I convinced that Nintendo has managed to absolve the console of such charges as fully as it might.
Are You So Over It?
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And the Wang derives almost half its annual revenue from Ballet rent, concessions and gimcrack sales.
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And there will be plenty of gimcrack novelties to entice clients.
Times, Sunday Times
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To try to reduce the entire idiom to ghost train gimcrackery would be to limit the possibilities and not expand them.
April come she will
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Such changes have in some instances been made; and when so, how often does the old mansion, with outward features in good preservation, outspeak, in all the expression of home-bred comforts, the flashy, gimcrack neighbor, which in its plenitude of modern pretension looks so flauntingly down upon it!
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
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The ladies raise flowers, fix baskets and roses, and all that kind of gimcracks, and the men go pottering about, making more fuss over their plots of ground than a big farmer out West does over his thousands of acres.
Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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The walls were hung with utensils for field and kitchen, and the shelves were stocked with old-fashioned hand tools and cooking gimcracks.
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And there will be plenty of gimcrack novelties to entice clients.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can walk into a store crammed with treats or gimcracks, and when she asks if she can get something, I just say sadly, "They're just for decoration, they're not for sale.
Gretchen Rubin: 5 Ways To Get Little Kids To Take "No" For An Answer
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The walls were hung with utensils for field and kitchen, and the shelves were stocked with old-fashioned hand tools and cooking gimcracks.
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The people who donate 100 bucks so they can get the gimcrack with the PBS station logo on it will still be watching
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers and Inequality
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In the old days, even short story writing was lucrative enough to merit gimcrackery classified ads.
February 2008
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If you're interested in anything deeper than cable gimcrackery, I recommend giving it a read.
David Roberts: Cleaning Some of the Fox Off of Van Jones
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The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe, or remaining little more than a modern-day Holy Roman Empire, a gimcrack hodgepodge of "variable geometry" that will sooner or later fall apart.
The End of the Euro
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How Rooney rendered "gimcracks" into Eskimo we are not prepared to say, but the whole description sent Nunaga and her mother into fits of giggling, for those simple-minded creatures of the icy north -- unlike sedate Europeans -- are easily made to laugh.
Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
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The poor must be grateful for gimcrack blandness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joseph could make out a couch and table on the far wall, but the couch was covered with heaps of clothes, newspapers, and assorted gimcracks.
Missionaries
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Niall Ferguson, no Europhile, recently wrote in these pages: "The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe … and a gimcrack hodgepodge … that will sooner or later fall apart.
In Defense of Europe
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Don Black's gimcrack lyrics range from the instantly forgettable to the indelibly horrific: "Well, who would have thought that a waitress from Rowena / Would have had the balls to bust me out my old .45 / And who would have thought that a farm boy from Teleco / Would outsmart the smartest lawmen and walk out of here alive?
Wheel This Barrow Out of Town
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Do you and your office co-workers exchange pointless gimcracks each holiday season?
Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids
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And then Welles changes the ending, offering his own gimcrack conclusions about freedom and slavery that belie the unplumbed depths of the material.
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Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Most traditional buildings have vanished, to be replaced by gimcrack shoddiness in white tile and blue glass.
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There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
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And both, more sadly, suffered from slightly gimcrack build quality.
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Most of the lots at the auction, which starts in the Gimcrack Suite, at 6pm, are houses divided into bedsits and investors and developers have already shown huge interest.
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But gutborne reactons like that go a long way to suggesting why there'll always be Big Business in base, "ghost train gimcrackery" what a line! at the expense of genuine soul-rending horror, no matter how much we who yearn for something deeper lament it.
April come she will
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Each listen coughs up some new lil’ gimcrack or geegaw.
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Gimcracks in an étagère; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891
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He was driving some sissy little Japanese car with odd little tires and wheels and a bunch of ugly gewgaws and gimcracks bolted on.
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There's merit to both viewpoints but DotD08 squanders these possibilities in favor of shakycam braggadocio and ghoulish gimcrackery that played a lot better in PLANET TERROR 2007, which wasn't even that good either.
Stick a fork in it
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What miracles would be enough to satisfy a world accustomed to magic gimcrackery on television?
Globe and Mail
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December 5th, 2007 at 4:33 am oh my…. he’s a very angry man isn’t he? hospitals like the gimcrack are the last places many people live before ending up in a funeral home. all our staff have very black senses of humour. it’s a prerequisite for the job.
An odd encounter at the funeral home « knitnut.net
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Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Hell, Al Gore had won just two years earlier for his global warming gimcrackery, but even Gore was not the most fraudulent of winners.
Deconstructing Obama