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Example sentences for: trappings

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Each of these characters comes with the trappings of civilization and high society, but it is the natural, untutored Catherine who proves the superior--if, ultimately, woebegone--force.
Another is whether President Clinton's visit to Palestinian-ruled Gaza will have the full trappings of a visit to an independent state.
Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)
But as the seductive trappings gain prominence, something else is obscured.
Unfortunately, these are trappings that come with billion-dollar price tags attached.