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Michael Billington wrote: "Stephen
Campbell Moore makes Irwin both
meretricious in his methods, yet
effective in his results". In 2004, he
starred as...
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critics proved hostile, with César Cui
calling the
symphony "routine" and "
meretricious", both
works were
received with
extreme enthusiasm by
audiences and Tchaikovsky...
- Clarkson's role as an
ignorant buffoon and
called the show "wearisome,
meretricious rubbish ... The
series amounts to less and less as time goes on." Anita...
- Artistically, the
films in
question range from the
majestic to the
meretricious.
Independent financing has set
truly imaginative directors into free...
- well". She cuts the
roses and puts them in vases,
where they
adorn her "
meretricious vision of what
makes for beauty" and
begin to die. The
roses in the vase...
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programmatical in any respect, and
Kennedy calls attempts to give the work "a
meretricious programme ... a poor
compliment to its
musical vitality and self-sufficiency"...
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Snakes on a
Plane would be – this is it! By any sane
cinematic standards,
meretricious trash ... but
thrown at you with such good-humoured glee that it's hard...
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permissible emotion—and
standards of taste: "excessiveness" is the criterion; "
Meretricious" and "contrived" sham
pathos are the
hallmark of sentimentality, where...
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Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post
described the film as "
meretricious fakery" and
called it "so
unrelenting in its mani****tive sentimentality...
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emotions rather than to the mind. It is used to
describe "claptrap or
meretricious attempts to
catch po****r
favor or applause." The
longer form of the...
