Circuses, particularly, were regarded as a vulgar form of entertainment.
The elite of the theater world and society figures who would not have been caught viewing a movie, then considered a vulgar form of entertainment, attended the premiere of "Queen Elizabeth". The movie lasted only 40 minutes, but it has been considered the first feature-length film to be shown in America.
In his "Letter Concerning the Arts, or Science of Design" published in 1712, this prominent Whig politician condemned what he saw as an excessive and even vulgar form of design – Christopher Wren's very English baroque – not least because this voluptuous style was associated with Rome and all things Catholic and was therefore a very bad thing indeed in staunchly Protestant England.
In an Oxford case of 1789 wife selling is described as "the vulgar form of Divorce lately adopted", suggesting that even if it was by then established in some parts of the country it was only slowly spreading to others.
While the grass-mud horse is simply vulgar, other forms of wordplay target the government more explicitly.
Their argument's vulgar form dismisses adaptation by natural selection of random mutations as sheer chance, likening it to the assembly of a jumbo jet by a hurricane crossing a junkyard (Asher, p. 78).
The chorus line of little old ladies and their tapping aluminum walkers; the swastika-wearing pigeons; the prancing theater queens who insist that a show need only "keep it gay" to succeed -- they are all in fine, exquisitely vulgar form.
To a roomful of grim-faced officials, he declared that China must "resolutely resist" vulgar, cheap and kitsch forms of culture.
Vulgar Latin, spoken form of non-Classical Latin from which originated the Romance group of languages.
Listening to him speak, Americans chuckled inappropriately, anticipating "laugh lines where there were none"; Mandela's "formality, precision, and seriousness," Finnegan wrote, revealed "just how much we as a nation have come to regard politics as a form — a vulgar, usually boring form — of entertainment".
