The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Quotes about tawdry (13 Quotes)
Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history,
I don't know that the re-branding campaign is a done deal, ... The council, including myself, had some concerns about it. It could be quite tawdry.
The subject lived a divided life between a professed image and the indecencies of tawdry personal secrets. Eventually, when events threatened to expose the charade, the subject chose to avoid the consequences of reality by committing suicide.
The pictures are designed to portray human emotions, good and evil, fine and tawdry and it is no wonder that their appeal is so universal.
I wonder if all the disclosures about Kennedy's tawdry nature in the White House -- about his affairs -- has something to do with it, ... I think that the comparisons being drawn between Clinton and Kennedy do not look favorably on either of them, and I think people may have lost some of their respect for Kennedy.
The architectural heritage of Mississippi is fabulous, ... really, really marvelous. However, what they have been building the last 30 years is the standard, tawdry strip developments. The government's vision is to start again and do it right.
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
YOUR devotion to God is best expressed by achieving the control of the senses. For the senses rush towards the temporary and the tawdry and they foul the heart.
Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.