meretricious in a sentence

Examples

1. But the interior was generally praised : A writer for The Art Journal described the inside as " an honest, good building, with no meretricious gewgaws about it ."
2. Most of the critics shared the public's disapproval of the production . " The Times " wrote, " The satiric point disappears in meretricious ado and humourless humour ".
3. Manning was the made-up creature of Columbia's publicity department, a cocked-and-primed virtual critic ready to fire off a praise at even the most meretricious motion picture.
4. A scene in the new movie in which a contrite Porter tells his wife that he'll try to stop seeing men and be faithful stands out as a moment of especially meretricious psychodrama.
5. On the other hand, a disapproving review in the " Times " claims that the film is a  meretricious thriller that should offend the sensibilities of any audience black or white.
6. There are many other differences : it is the daughter who scolds the mother about extravagance based on her lover's meretricious promises in the film, while in the play Juno warns her husband.
7. Duggan said going commercial would force PBS to tart up programming, " driven by ratings to the ever more trivial and bizarre and meretricious, and that is not what we were created to do.
8. Cynical, meretricious, unable to disguise the fact that it's getting awfully tired, " Lethal Weapon 4 " is the best possible argument against " Lethal Weapon 5 ."
9. The theme of the much anticipated prom is " Titanic Dreams, " and it inspires a slapstick finale that nearly rescues the movie from the watery grave of its perfunctory and meretricious happy ending.
10. His review noted, " Possibly a meaningful film could be developed from this theme, but as directed with an emphasis on sensationalism by Joseph Pevney, the effect is as meretricious as it is harrowing ."