Sentences with word «gimcrack»

Star Wars is a junkyard of cinematic gimcracks not unlike the Jawas» heap of purloined, discarded, barely functioning droids.

Peter and Paul in Fall River, Massachusetts» would revolutionize Catholic architecture in America, then dominated by cheap catalogue - bought plaster saints and gimcrack Victoriana.

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw handed Anderson's film a five - star review at Venice, calling it «an arresting and utterly absorbing psychological drama of marginal lives, an emotional history of charlatanism and gimcrack philosophy, a world of snakeoil truth salesmen offering self - medication of the spirit, all set in a postwar America realised with superb flair and confidence, utterly without cliche».

Kuntz has also kept up his twice - yearly Movie Collectible Show featuring vendors from around the Midwest selling posters, stills, autographs, souvenir gimcracks, coffee table books and (a man of Kuntz's tastes must cringe) DVDs.

Add to that the cost of the renewable gimcracks that generate electricity and the cost of distributing it to point of consumption.

And we're not talking some $ 10 office holiday party gimcrack, either (not that there's anything wrong with that).

«Game Night,» a trip - wired suspense comedy about six middle - class nerds who get together for a weekly Tostitos - and - beer game night, only to stumble into a simulated reality game that's staged as if it were a matter of life or death (and here's the trick: maybe it is), is the sort of cinematic gimcrack that's all perilous mechanics, whipsaw reversals, and unabashed contrivance.

Bob Evans was a gimcrack pitchman.

I'll bet they're pretty horrified in Lesotho too, realising they're being compared to a gimcrack, dysfunctional parliament like ours.

The presence of interracial partnerships is hampered by socioeconomic status, gimcrack and even the fetishization of someone of one race by another; these determinants could play a role in how interracial couples see each other or what motivates the connection in the first place.

(You Were Never Rally Here also commits the sophomoric and irksome sin of showing a daydream suicide for a shock, a gimcrack fake - out — a trope that's up there with that of people sinking into murky water to signify a sense of hopelessness, an image of which Ramsay is also apparently fond.)

Zahler commits to the nasty material, and by the time bodies and spirits are broken, the carnage and nihilism feels inevitable, rather than gimcrack or forced — a rancorous culmination brought on by unfortunate events and dire circumstances.

I still swear that a portmanteau is a piece of furniture, usually found in your great aunt's foyer for the display of bric - a-brac, knicknacks, tchotchkes, geegaws, and gimcracks.

The gimcrack, bauble - encrusted assemblages of Rachel Harrison and Joana Vasconcelos owe as much to Kippenberger as to Rauschenberg.

Clare Grill, «Gimcrack, 2011, oil on linen, 20 x 19.»