Sentence examples for tawdry quality from inspiring English sources
There's nothing wrong with May-December romance, but the show had a tawdry quality that made the skin crawl.
What strikes everyone, on first viewing, is the apparently tawdry quality of Lulu's subject matter compared with the sumptuous beauty of the score.
I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again".
The apparent purity of these qualities seems to have appealed to artists in the tawdry, cynical China of the 1990s.
She carries both the extreme intelligence and aspirational quality of the woman who thought, and deserved, to have another kind of life and the tawdry, pathetic dreamer who can't manage to keep change in her purse or clothes in her magic trunk, stuffed full of the people she never got to be.
Those qualities have also served Bullock particularly well this summer, when she was caught up in a tawdry marital scandal of the Tiger Woods variety.
But the quality of public life in the nineteen-nineties, as measured by the headlines, was actually somewhat sad and tawdry.
