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Example sentences for: trappings

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As readers of VERBATIM are aware, we give short shrift to the trappings of academia in our pages: we eschew footnotes (with rare exceptions) as well as bibliographies.
It looks as though we're now meant to forget that quaint line of thought, and to regard such fancy trappings as appropriate to the ruthless fight for political ascendancy.
But what we get is mostly less than meets the eye: the erudition of the cocktail party and the emotional range of a good TV sitcom, middlebrow pleasures dressed up in the trappings of high learning--modernism without difficulty.
For 2000 he has dropped the absurd trappings of his 1996 campaign: A gray suit has replaced the embarrassing plaid shirt, "Lamar!"
Not a slick exploitation film with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Several critics take the exact opposite stance: The Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan calls it "an unapologetically sleazy ordeal that delights in twisting the knife, a tawdry piece of work whose only raison d'être is making the skin crawl in the name of box office profit."