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Example sentences for: trappings
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Next there are the semilegit crossovers between country and rock or folk--Wilco, the Old 97's, Son Volt, Iris DeMent--who adorn themselves in the trappings of country but use a studied, shambling rawness to appeal to rock fans.
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."
It is an active Lamaist Buddhist shrine, with many Tibetan trappings.
The power of race, however, derives not from its pseudoscientific markings but from its cultural trappings.
But Barry recognized that the trappings of power were tenuous, too.