Sentence examples for bit gauche from inspiring English sources

Ceiling fans creak overhead; candles are lit for you as night falls, as if using electricity were a teeny bit gauche.

"We have always looked at our American cousins as being a bit gauche, a bit loud". But JW3 will, he hopes, "turn up the volume".

The idea of pinning his colours to the mast is a bit gauche and Touitou is anything but – he doesn't, for example, wear his own designs head to toe.

We were coming out of a decade of what I would almost describe as political quietism, where talking about politics was considered a little bit gauche and art was separate from everything else and was supposed to be above politics.

— I know, I know, it's much too early to be thinking about the Academy Awards, and Oscar talk is considered a bit gauche up here, but the Telluride Film Festival has had the distinction, for three years running, of providing the first North American screens for the eventual best picture winners.

Yet still we dance the dance, pretending that sending UK taxpayers' cash overseas to children who may or may not exist is the civilised way to behave, convincing ourselves that countries which demand control over their own borders are, well, just a bit gauche.

"A sonnet gets no better by doubling its lines," pointed out the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman; he thought the new act "a gauche, clumsy bit of biblical farce... an Old Testament version of Up Pompeii!" Where the original Joseph had possessed a "bouncing and vivacious spontaneity", this new material was "flip, arch, jokey".

But it was still a bit of a gauche compromise, the Chinese dimension added midway through production by DMG: potential remained to aggressively play off the film's retro midwest Americana against the idea of a future, dominant China and really exploit the geopolitics to enhance the storyline.

As the economy worsens U.S. unemployment has climbed over 7% for the first time since 1993 consumers will pull back a bit, if only to avoid appearing gauche.

It would be equally gauche to complain that the roof got stuck, or that a bit of door trim came off, or that the windshield header was right in the line of sight.

In an ankle-length black Dolce & Gabbana gown and a sparkling rhinestone and plexiglass Rive Gauche choker, Ms. Sacco was a striking hostess for a recent charity auction, looking every bit the part of a boldface name raising money for a noble cause.