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Mitchell's thoughtful and informed approach has reassured spin doctors that their charges won't suddenly be ambushed by a man wearing garish hip-hop garb.
In the garish melodrama Desert Fury (1947), Scott, stylishly dressed by Edith Head, is perfect as the good girl gone bad becoming good again.
With harrowing, unrepentant exactitude it is a year to the weekend that the garish and tearaway business of motor racing was grotesquely freeze-framed into an eerie Pompeian stillness the moment its champion of cold-eyed invincibility and single-minded grandeur Ayrton Senna died in a 190mph crash in the name of sport.
It's eye-catching, it can be garish.
The rehearsals, portentous theme tunes, garish computer graphics, live links and guests had not prepared for such an SNP tsunami and the decimation of the Liberal Democrats.
Whereas Peter Mead, his rambunctious partner in the Abbott Mead Vickers agency, founded in 1977, installed a garish Wurlitzer, Abbott cultivated a donnish,, almost sacerdotal, air.
Boasting a cavalcade of "Neat Stuff" including a colouring book ("Print out and colour in!"), basketball tips ("It's always a good idea to warm up before a game") and "Sound Clips", it's a perfect snapshot of a mid-90s internet: low-res, garish but eager.
In true garish Eurovision style, a man will run inside a giant rotating wheel during the performance which opens the show.
The most prized artefact, of course, should be the store itself – a garish , ramshackle funhouse that for decades held the world record for most electric lights on a building – were it not for the fact that Honest Ed's is slated for demolition on New Years Evee, 2016.
Yet he has been working for decades, his early career comprising a series of "oblique" BBC-funded documentaries like Serbian Epics, in which he travelled to Bosnia during the 1994 civil war to film Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb leader later accused of ordering the Srebrenica massacre, as he read garish poetry on the hills above the besieged shell of Sarajevo.
Despite the garish ties and eccentricities of old, Mr Lafontaine is a classic welfare-minded Social Democrat, a Genosse (comrade) still keen to hug demonstrating coalminers; Germans, he says, should have a 32-hour week.
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The primary grammatical function of "garish" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something excessively bright, colorful, or showy, typically in a way that is considered tasteless or vulgar. Ludwig examples confirm its use in describing visual attributes deemed aesthetically unpleasant.
Expression frequency: Very common
