Sentence examples for an error of taste from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an error of taste" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a judgment or decision that is considered to be lacking in aesthetic or cultural sensitivity. Example: "The critics deemed the extravagant display at the funeral to be an error of taste."

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But why compromise the pleasure of this film with an error of taste as silly as that?

In Fuller's hands, what can at first seem an error of taste often turns out to be a vision of the world.

Ever since it was announced that he was going to make a film based on the case, there have been suggestions that such a thing would be exploitative or crass, inevitably an error of taste and judgment.

For the first half-hour, this film... well, it is an error of taste for someone over 18 to use the intransitive verb "to rock" as a term of approbation, but it really is great.

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In the cinema South Park the Movie came and went and even The Flintstones was permitted a live-action movie airing, an extraordinary error of taste which is only attributable to an overspill of frustrated yearning for Springfield's First Family.

There was a backlash of critical opinion, but the suggestion that this tale was a massive error of taste never gained favour.

This year, rumours are circulating in Hollywood that Anne Hathaway, who left behind her toothy Princess Diaries reputation with a grown-up performance as recovering addict Kym in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, may have committed a similar error of taste.

When one of them pulls out a real piece in the middle of a ferocious argument with a rival gang, everyone on both sides is deeply pained by this error of taste.

That is an error of about 30%!

Wright's work is not immune from what, in a subtler era, might have been called "errors of taste".

But – do not despair – literary prizes are as vulnerable to errors of taste and judgment as any other competitive activity in the arts.

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