Sentence examples for gaud from inspiring English sources

Brock-Broido's poems, haunted by old words and meanings, full of occult spells and curses, nearly Pre-Raphaelite in their taste for gilt and gaud, have much to say to the dead.

It was Mr. Louboutin who most effectively hijacked Manolo Blahnik's thunder and a chunk of his market, using an arsenal of gaud and ostentation, shoes that came studded, strapped, buckled and fur-covered and that were also made instantly identifiable by his signature red soles.

They may have been childish in a sense, but they didn't come packaged with smiles or suffused with good cheer or with gaud that evoked the concept of "wonder" and "magic"; they had as much brass and grit as the streets outside.

The chill of Losey's direction matches his keen eye for grunge and gaud alike.

In it, the exiled silent-era greats recreate an ambience at home that reflects the gaud, pomp, pseudo-Gothic grandeur, and expressionistic mugging of the movies, which, intensified by decades of isolation, turned pathological.

But instances of truly excessive decorousness or decoration are rare in "Beyond Silence," and a pervasive but slight stiltedness is generally redeemed by the sharpness of Hoffman's observations: And skies athrob with gaud and roar of firework, Gigantic needles jabbing high Swiftly trailing flame like thread, then piercing The beady button of the moon...

Rajrani Gaud, who lives in the village of Aamkhoh in India's Sagar district, was lucky to escape with her life after the solid mass of excrement and urine smashed into a nearby terrace before bouncing off and hitting her.

A TV tour of La Sagrada Familia led to a lifelong love of Gaud?nd a pilgrimage to Barcelona.