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Tea-towel philosophising
tacky
furnishings, behaviour on the part of people who should know better
talky
drama This is an irritatingly talky novel, with the characters constantly
offering up facile insights along the lines of "you got to trust your
heart".
tarty getup
tattyold lampshade
tawdry “I hate
Brighton, a tawdry 'resort' by the sea with precious little
relationship to the sea.” Web
tea-shop
gentility
tea-towel
philosophising Jane Shilling
tenebrist
paintings It means deeply shadowy.
terrifying Lord Levy and his terrifying coiffure. Guardian May 13
08
test card
music Victor Lewis Smith
thorny topic
thought-for-the-day
"[Bill] Viola and his friends lather on a
goo of world religion and a pot-pourri of thought-for-the-day bons
mots that I really don't want to hear about. I feel like I'm being given a
spiritual shake-down. It all just makes me want to run away. Perhaps, in
America, it is considered OK to go on like this." Adrian Searle, Guardian
Oct 03
thrilling "gone quite thrillingly bonkers" Kate Flett Observer Oct 6 07
thrillingly awful Katie Price's
novel Times July 19 07
tinny "a tinny celebrity wake for Jeremy Beadle" Guardian May
16, 2008
toe-curling
outpourings
tooth-rottingly
sweet
tortured The tortured attempts of early New Labour to conjure a
"Cool Britannia". New Scientist Oct 25 07
towering condescension
toweringly
bleak HP Lovecraft’s outlook, guardian arts blog
toweringly
sane Euan Ferguson on Mary Warnock Observer June 19 05
treacly
"When the couple [Mills/McCartney] announced their separation on May 17,
it was accomplished with treacly avowals of mutual respect and regret."
theage.com Annabel Crabb, London August 9, 2006
tremendously awful musicals
trite
"I still can't decide if this is a compelling image or a trite one"
January 26, 2007 Guardian Jonathan Jones
trite, tedious, trying etc Based on the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love stars Julia Roberts as Liz, a recently divorced travel writer who embarks on a journey of self-discovery through Italy, India and Bali. The movie is essentially 140 minutes of “wearisome, trite and questionable” psychobabble that entirely wastes Roberts’s talents, said Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times. The film is “packed full of tedious New Age gobbledegook and the sort of moral platitudes you see on car window stickers”, said Matthew Bond in The Mail on Sunday. “British audiences, and male audiences in particular, will find its very American navel-gazing desperately trying.” September 28, 2010
truly insane Tone of
lofty bemusement... Weirdly contemptuous... a truly insane explanation Adam Kirsch on The House of
Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh in the NYRB June
truly
frightening "the truly frightening Tomato Soup Conversation Cake"
Guardian Dec 03
truly
mesmeric transvestite comedy flop Zadie Smith on the film Sylvia Scarlett
tuppenny
halfpenny philosophising
twee "If twee, whimsical indie movies make your blood
boil, this could send you over the edge. It's a faux-documentary in which
Charlyne Yi wants to know what love is, and finds out when romance supposedly
blossoms with weedy indie titan Cera – who happens to be her real-life boyfriend." Guardian
Nov 09
twee: It’s the self-loving tweeness… @Quantick (David Quantick) on the Hairy Bikers
twee,
blandly forgettable etc
Godspell hasn’t worn well. The idea of a group of strolling rag-tagrock’n’roll minstrels and players performing the Gospels might have seemed
radical in 1971; now it just seems rather twee. And though the score
still has its pleasingly melodious moments, it’s mostly blandly forgettable. It
doesn’t help, though, that the production is so irredeemably unappealing. [The
set] looks like something even Spinal Tap would have rejected as too tacky. The
costumes are worse – lots of
spectacularly ugly neon netting, shiny nylon and the odd dash of vaguely
S&M faux leather. Staging and choreography are pedestrian, and delivered
with noisy, empty bombast. The acting is stage-school presentational – all eyes
and teeth. As for the singing, the girls mostly sound like helium-addicted
chipmunks and the boys like belting X-Factor wannabes. It’s never all that much
fun being preached at; still less so when it’s done as charmlessly as it is
here. Times September 25, 2007 Sam Marlowe
twee, affected etc. Twee, affected prose matched by
unfocused storytelling. Guardian on God of Small Things July 25, 2008
twin-set The particular object of her vengeful, twin-set
loathing is Robin Hood Gardens. Guardian Mar 2 08
unapologetically
pointless Channel 4's occult week Guardian March 6, 2007
unbelievably
cretinous as if
written by a 13 year-old-boy (Avatar)
undernourished
unhinged
concepts New Scientist review of Matthew Barney September 28, 2007
unholy mix of
unraised I’ve
been around this kind of common, trashy, unraised behavior all my life.
unutterably
woeful
unwaveringly
artificial prose style ansible@cix on Ernest Bramah
unwise
hairpiece, shorts
upsettingly
large implants
urgent,
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