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Example sentences for: garish

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Barbecued pork and poultry glisten in the windows of the dozens of restaurants, and tourists are drawn in by the garish street décor — even the telephone booths have pagoda-style roofs.
His paintings looked hollow and often sloppy and garish.
With its garish pagodas, artificial caves, and brightly painted statues of well-known Taoist and Buddhist legends, the garden is an obvious photo opportunity.
On the down side, the film's pretty much a one-trick pony: It "continually dares us to sneer at their garish tastes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Somehow the critics come out smiling anyhow.
But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.