Indeed, one of the best theoretical explanations for the evolution of such plumage positively requires that it exact a toll: according to this model, the costs of gaudiness are an unfakeable signal to the opposite sex that an individual is otherwise fit and healthy.
But what attracts the eye more are the garish modern buildings, extravagantly large cars and jeeps, massive traffic jams and the city's general gaudiness.
At the centre of it all, on a throne ornate to the point of gaudiness, the queen reads out the legislative agenda of "her" government, written on goatskin vellum.The content of that speech is usually more prosaic, and this year was no exception.
But if you're paying thousands of pounds for the watch — some estimates put the possible cost in the five figures — perhaps you want a little gaudiness.
His sleek and attenuated brand of urban, rock-chick tailoring is somewhat at odds with the gaudiness and gazar-clad girls of a day at the races.
In the marble lobby, whose wall decorations, Buddhist statues, winding staircase, and gold-plated mandala created an overwhelming impression of gaudiness, a wide-screen television replayed endlessly an interview with the hotel's owner, a soldier turned businessman from Sichuan.
The author discusses children's reactions to art, explaining that they like plain pictures enriched by gaudiness; a demonstrably clever and neat-figured technique,with no art concealing art about it.
It's an unusually flinty musical, one that doesn't have the colorful ballyhoo of "Chicago," or the sloppy gaudiness of "The Great Gatsby," or the bathetic theatricality of "Les Misérables".
So much of our desire like their bulky, shadowy walking after midnight, exiled from the wild and destined for a circus with its tawdry gaudiness, its unspoken pathos.
Whatever the magnificence and the difficulty of Merrill's achievement, Hammer views him as a sublime poet of the everyday, much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut man of fixed habits whose mélange of abstraction and gaudiness Merrill admired.
Sarkozy has been much criticized for his love of money and gaudiness.
