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Futility weariness disenchantment a gray lane without a turning that stretched on into nothingness! Many thoughts were blown through her mind like leaves in a high wind. She saw herself from the beginning striving without rest searching searching for what? For happiness for perfection for the starry flower that she had never found. All was tawdry, all was tarnished, all was unreal.
The train began to move. "Get off yourself, you coward," sneered Cargan. "Oh, I know you. It doesn't take much to make your stomach shrink. Get off." Max eagerly seized his hat and bag. "I will, if you don't mind," he said. "See you later at Charlie's." And in a flash of tawdry attire, he was gone. The mayor of Reuton no longer sat limp in his seat.
Still the good fairy who came to his christening endowed him with "sweet content," a gift which carried him triumphantly through all hampering difficulties. He never faltered in the task he set himself the task of happiness. He began to preach his gospel as a child. He would not have his tawdry toy sword disparaged even by his father.
Although the more gaudy and best known among them came from the first second-rate families in England, the rank and file were formed mainly by young men of good estate and breeding the sons of clergy, country squires, or merchants, all sprung from that class which is called Middle, because it represents civilised society neither in its rough beginnings nor in its tawdry decay."
A fondness for trifles is certainly no less conspicuous in age than youth; and we daily see it among persons of the best understanding, who wholly neglect every essential to real happiness in the pursuit of those very toys which children cry to be indulged in; even such as a bit of ribband, or the sound of a monosyllable tacked to the name; without considering that those badges of distinction, like bells about an ideot's neck, frequently serve only to render their folly more remarkable, and expose them to the contempt of the lookers on, who perhaps too, as nature is the same in all, want but the same opportunity to catch no less eagerly at the tawdry gewgaw.
And truly there were manifold traces of hasty and temporary arrangement; new carpets and old hangings; old paint, new gilding; battalions of odd French chairs, squadrons of queer English tables; and large tasteless lamps and tawdry chandeliers, evidently true cockneys, and only taking the air by way of change.
Or, if I have, it is not a pair of epaulettes that will content it." She understood him; she comprehended the bitter mockery that the tawdry, meretricious rewards of regimental decoration seemed to the man who had waited to die at Zaraila as patiently and as grandly as the Old Guard at Waterloo. "I understand! The rewards are pitifully disproportionate to the services in the army.
But when you get there, the reality won't please you at all. There will be the dirty floor, and the bad music, and the little priest intoning through his nose and the scuffling boys, and the abominable pictures and the tawdry altars. Much better stay at home and help me praise the Holy Roman Church from a safe distance!
Let men who have such materials, and such models, proscribe all tawdry and poor European art most of it a bad imitation of bad Greek, or worse Renaissance and trust to Nature and the facts which lie nearest them. But when will a time come for the West Indies when there will be wealth and civilisation enough to make such an art possible?
The splendours of the Imperial Court at the Tuileries seem tawdry and insipid when compared with the intellectual grandeur which lit up that humble lodging at Nice with the first rays that heralded the dawn of Italian liberation. With the fuller knowledge which he had recently acquired, he now in January, 1796, elaborated this plan of campaign, so that it at once gained Carnot's admiration.
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