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The church is on Rua das Flores, perhaps my favorite street in Oporto: slender, shaded, intimate, many of its low-slung buildings fronted with wrought iron or covered with painted tiles, which were probably garish at the start but have faded to a subtle, exquisite beauty.

Having decided to take on this Wagnerian-size life, Mr. Boyle has responded not with the deflating humor and hyperventilated energy of his early work or the emotional insight of his more recent novels but instead with a small, cheesy paint-by-numbers soap opera that manages to be pallid and gratuitously garish at the same time.

Her looks were purposefully garish, at first distracting, and it is doubtful that the next Ken Burns documentary on PBS would feature a trans person in such a serious setting, but Japan is a different place as they say.

Though there have been scores of individual hosannas to Bowie's pivotal career since his death in January – from Lady Gaga's garish one at the Grammys, to Lorde's more tasteful piece at the Brit Awards – the Carnegie show provided the first sustained, and wide-ranging, genuflection.

The garish shop at the top of the gallery's stairs has disappeared.

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That was the way the bleak and garish rooms at VENUS struck me.

When a Japanese man raised his hand she waved a garish scarf at him, explaining to the rest of us, "foreigners like bright colors".

Pushtun touts, Nigerians slinging fake Rolexes and a flock of Indian prostitutes in garish saris congregate at its maw.

The food stations have garish fluorescents right at eye level; one look into them and you're more or less blind for the duration of your stay.

The linesman flags, managing to successfully wave the garish cloth bit at the end of the stick in his hand, despite being from Japan.