10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TINSELLY»
Discover the use of
tinselly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tinselly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel
Yet again she acknowledges her “distaste” for Clarissa, and her fear that Clarissa
is “tinselly.” Woolf seems to confirm Strachey's assessment of Clarissa's character
when she argues to herself that she has “covered” Clarissa's tinselly qualities ...
2
African American Musical Heritage: An Appreciation, ...
At the 1921 National Baptist Convention a performance of one of Tinselly's songs
changed the course of gospel music. A young musician named Thomas Dorsey
was so profoundly impressed by Tinselly's “preaching style” of singing that it left ...
From a site little more than a mile away, Colonel Matthew Tinselly of the
Wyoming National Guard, assigned to assist the FBI, watched the one sided fire
fight between the FBI compound and the lone militia machinegun. Around him his
officers ...
I found the safe open when I came back and my jewel box was no longer there! “
All my jewels,” she lamented. “All except the broochI am wearing today!” she
added, pointing to the tinselly trinket on her breast. Serve you right, he thought at
first ...
5
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand
I kind of feel they will.” On the emerging Streisand mythos, Hamill left his own
imprint. “To many observers,” he wrote, “her overnight success is bewildering.
Show business, after all, is largely a bazaar for that tinselly commodity, glamour.
6
Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida
the experience, for example, 'a bitter, lemon yellow', 'tinselly, streamlike
percussion', and 'the sound of a trumpet is scarlet'. These descriptionsmight
loosely becalled 'synaesthetic' in that they combine different sensory modalities.
They are ...
7
Auden's Apologies for Poetry
The poem may be only a guilty, tinselly performance incapable of any
significance at all except to call attention to its own guilty, tinselly self. Elizabeth
Mayer is morally and spiritually remote from New Year Letter's speaker, but he
does invoke ...
8
Virginia Woolf: Critical responses to the novels from The ...
It may be too stiff, too glittering and tinselly.' And it is, indeed, precisely because
Virginia Woolf did not completely succeed in cutting out all of the 'glittering and
tinselly' part of Mrs Dalloway that we are often not certain just how to take her.
Eleanor Jane McNees, 1994
For the essence of Christmas Day (December 25) , in all of the many Rotary
lands where it is observed, is giving, whether the gifts be a hearty dinner and
evening of song for lonely old people, some toys and a tinselly party for poor
children or ...
10
Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner
He disapproved of the tinselly glitter of the place. Worse, he always remained
disdainful toward the film medium itself. He had found, however, a consolation
there that could only have deepened his feelings of guilt. He had met and fallen
hard ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TINSELLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tinselly is used in the context of the following news items.
New Wheels for the Gods
New Wheels for the Gods. A Kochi-based photographer explores how a modern, tinselly aesthetic is taking over temple architecture in south India. «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
Giorgio Armani Privé Couture Fall 2015
Then the optic verve really kicked in as solids gave way to jacquards, dégradés, feathers and fringes, often tinged with metallics for a tinselly feel. Some looks ... «WWD, Jul 15»
May-Pac: Fight of the century
... has morphed into a worldwide spectacular, without precedent in either the sums of money being spun or in the lashings of tinselly, technicolour grandeur. «New Zealand Herald, May 15»
'West of Sunset,' by Stewart O'Nan
His youthful fame gave him a shrewd perspective on that shallow, tinselly world. Yet while working there in the last three years of his life, he was a sad case: a ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
Life is Strange: Episode One review
With its soft guitar intro, pastel Americana lens and tinselly waffle that spills from its characters' mouths, you'd be forgiven for thinking Life is Strange is the video ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
Weekender: The Chicest Things To Do For 48 Hours Of Indulgence …
Happy New Year to my fellow travel bunnies! If you're anything like me you'll be reluctant to slough off the last tinselly residues of Christmas, so here are my ... «Grazia, Jan 15»
The Cummins Christmas Wonderland
The young and the young at heart come from far and wide to share in that tingly, tinselly Christmas spirit. Some visitors claim it's better than the famed 'Magic ... «ABC Online, Dec 14»
Top five tips for this year's tech Santa
Perhaps, between this month's tinselly advertisements, you've heard that this is the Season of Giving. While many people consider the name nothing more than ... «Macworld, Dec 14»
Jim Broadbent steals the show as the big red one
Essentially a modern day riff on Miracle on 34th Street, Get Santa marries Brit flick crime drama with tinselly family comedy. There's a great performance from Jim ... «RTE.ie, Dec 14»
Christmas 2014: Sarah Tanat-Jones on what she loves and hates …
It happens every year, my family gets together and we all argue for four full days, except for when we're dancing to tinselly, naff Christmas songs or getting drunk. «The List, Nov 14»
