This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.

The harvest was a gaudy, melodramatic spectacle in primary colors, like a picture fashioned with a child's poster paints.

One suspects that, like Paz, the character in the book who most resembles her, Hagedorn is occasionally homesick for the "gaudy spectacles and contradictions" of the land she left for the United States at the age of 14.

The gaudy spectacle was clearly, in her eyes, utterly enchanting.

A wonderfully gaudy and exciting spectacle.

Dressed like a Las Vegas version of a Hindu princess and insistently, rather hilariously bellowing for a bandage, she makes for a gaudy and curiously poignant spectacle.

Standing outside the multistory entryway to Fortis Casino, Tom decided that without question, this was the most over-the-top gaudy spectacle he'd ever seen.

Some of the millions who view the Oscar ceremony on ABC tonight will be unabashed admirers of the gaudy spectacle, a rating success since it went on the air in 1953.

Recalling the bright tents of the Yezda he had seen too often in Vaspurakan and western Videssos, Gorgidas was looking for a similar gaudy spectacle.

The scene at the Cafe Momus captures the revelry of a Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter without lapsing into gaudy spectacle.