The preacher of Heterodoxy was entirely without enthusiasm, nor did his oratory borrow anymeretricious attractions from the Muse.
But it may be seriously misunderstood; it may be corrupted by large admixture of error; it may be partially or even totally forgotten; it may be supplanted by some meretricious counterfeit.
Tucked under the writing-table a pair of yellow and gold Turkish slippers of a highly meretricious quality caught her eye.
So they parade the streets, dressed in the most startling and meretricious costumes of the period; and that fatal doctrine of self-protection counts its victims by the score as the consequence.
Nay, it is with these same meretricious attractions of hers that my accusation is concerned: it was by her specious appearance that she beguiled the virtuous Dionysius, my lover, and drew him to herself.
He compares the Alexandrian women to "an Egyptian temple, gorgeous without, but enshrining only a cat or crocodile: so beneath their meretricious adorning were concealed vile and loathsome passions.
The Florentine churches, too, were desecrated by portraits of well-known harlots, flaunting their meretricious beauty as the 321 personations of the mother of Our Lord.
The musical world was waiting with open arms for him; for it had been satiated with opera music of a meretricious order, though written by his own countrymen, from which any deliverance could not fail to be a relief.
By contrast with sombre St. James’s, Buckingham Palace is a meretricious mushroom, scarcely deserving a passing glance.
He is like an artist who is more anxious to produce a meretricious effect than he is to be true to himself or to nature.
Nothing can be much more meretricious than its modern art, when anything is produced that is not an exact copy of something created when there was genius there.
Versailles, yet the dome of the Invalides proves him to have been capable of less meretricious work.
His oratorios are the composite of the orthodox style of the church, the traits of the Neapolitan School deprived of their meretricious tendencies, and a precocious expressive and dramatic instinct, the birthright of his own genius.
As the most famous representative of French romantic and historic grand opera, Meyerbeer would appear, at first sight, to have embraced in his operas every conceivable meretricious device for the sensational and the spectacular.
It is not to be denied that some very paltry music has been played--in fact, the whole programme of Thursday was devoted just to this class of music--and that many of the numbers in each day were purely meretricious and sensational.
He smiled with grim satisfaction, for the things were licked and stippled into a meretricious poetry, and his own bold blobs of Oriental color had been laughed at.
In French studios there is a slang phrase which expresses the meretricious charm of this picture--c'est du chic; and the meaning of this very expressive term is ignorance affecting airs of capacity.
Hals and Velasquez obtained the same result, without, however, resorting to such meretricious methods.
But meretricious ornament was popular, and poets, historians, and orators alike scrambled to see who could most adorn his speech.
As well take some mighty athlete with muscles of steel, rig him up with purple drapery and meretricious ornament, rouge and powder his cheeks; faugh, what an object one would make of him with such defilements!
At St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel religious earnestness and dignity were frittered away in pretty part-singing, in mere frivolity and meretricious show.
