gimcrack

The only excuse for a gimcrack plot is good music.

Works of art have been replaced by identical gimcracks stamped out on a die.

There is something majestic about it, and also something a little gimcrack.

Farmland on the city's outskirts is disappearing under gimcrack new apartment houses.

And now the gimcrack timbered roof of the lobby block was going.

Most of its architecture is recent and gimcrack.

The set is equipped with gimmicks and gimcracks, including a stairway to nowhere.

The American showcase will be a gimcrack advertisement of penury and indifference.

It's not just the gimcrack look of the sets and costumes but the feeling that no one has bothered to direct the stars.

As for adults, it depends on how compelling you find the individual gewgaws and gimcracks.

The enemy would hardly freight his couriers with mere gimcracks.

Forced to use the foolish gimcracks of the Toymaker?

This movie is not just some gimcrack farce.

The event is named after Gimcrack, a successful racehorse in the 18th century.

No gimcrack refinements of decoration or delicacy had ever belonged to it.

We become far too dependent on the gimcracks and novelties of passing ages."

Beady eyes focused, like lenses, over winking jewels and gimcracks.

"Because it means that you really think you're doing something with your gimcrack contraption, whatever it is.

Gimcrack won his last race in 1771, at age eleven, and he retired to the Grosvenor stud.

People still accost you in the street for conversation, not to sell you tourist gimcrack.

He was dangling before her face a little twenty-first century gimcrack, a gyroscopic pendant or something like that.

The sprawling shanty-suburbs and shoddy gimcrack factories of recent years were elsewhere.

Gimcrack is best known from the paintings by George Stubbs.

The world Landis builds here is, by contrast, crammed with gimcracks that hide his dark themes from view.

Ohr believed himself to be a genius; after 1900, he sold only the "gimcracks."