Some in Washington liken Iraq a tad tastelessly, perhaps to a giant takeover target, with the resources to pay for its own restructuring.
Under covers of cream and blue (so tastelessly passé!) her rival revealed that Mrs Lauder's parents, Hungarian Jews, had run a seed and hardware store in Queens, a run-down borough of New York.
This work is a brilliant satire on the vain and tastelessly bombastic preaching that predominated in Spanish churches.
Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post said its "mournful scenes of genocide and stolen immigrant labor are tastelessly juxtaposed with silly slapstick humour".
He excused himself with my-wife-this, my-daughter-that; I insisted that I wanted to thank him for how kind he'd always been to me, and I suggested an expensive and tastelessly fashionable restaurant downtown and said it would be my treat.
Many basketball players, outstanding ones included, have a tendency to be rather tastelessly rococo in their style, and Bradley stands out in contrast to them because he adorns nothing that he does.
Mrs. Miner feels uncomfortable at a tea because she is dressed so tastelessly.
Within moments of the ambulance's departure, the landlord would be tastelessly inundated with queries about the potential vacancy — a scene not unfamiliar to many New Yorkers.
Rather than a nuanced, textured account of what it has meant to be black in America, "Life Upon These Shores" is a hit parade of black accomplishment and exceptionalism — a chronicle of what Du Bois called (I guess it sounded all right at the time), and Gates later dredges up (jokingly, but nonetheless tastelessly, to describe some contemporary black corporate chieftains), the "talented tenth".
But he shows new signs of life in "Damned," a book full of tastelessly hilarious gallows humor about a teenage girl in hell.
Rather more tastelessly, Gaye makes a brief allusion to his father, at whose hands he would later die (but not in this upbeat musical, of course).
