The minstrel-show trappings of "The Scottsboro Boys" serve as a kind of Brechtian device putting distance between the story being told and our natural emotional responses to the plain facts of the case.
Others blame Facebook: it is easy for relatives in the United States to show the trappings of prosperity.Who started these rumours is moot.
"I said, 'It's probably O.K.'" Accordingly, the humble Earl's Lane manor has begun to show the trappings of the Hayden brothers' success.
He, too, shows the trappings of the entrepreneurial personality.
They married in July and were pleased to show off the trappings of connubial bliss.
While the show has the trappings of MTV's "Real World" and its knockoffs, Mr. Kroll said he hoped rumspringa would differentiate his exhibitionists.
HONG KONG — The world's big Michelin-starred names — the Robuchons, Ramsays and Ducasses — generally achieve success by breaking free of former employers and opening restaurants named for themselves, followed by offshoots, cookbooks, television shows and other trappings of the celebrity chef.
A photo of the home office showing all the trappings of fax machines and computers can help make your case.
In these pictures, which are perhaps less pioneering than those that came before or after, Rembrandt presents himself with dignity while showing off the trappings of prosperity, reflecting the commercial success he was enjoying in Amsterdam.
But Madonna shows up the trappings of a bad girl, and demanded to be taken up seriously because she just doesn't roll over.
Mr. Hannity's show has all the trappings of traditional television news — the anchor desk, the graphics and the patina of authority that comes with being part of a news organization that also employs serious-minded journalists like Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly.
