modishness

Sagging baggies, tattoos, false nails and hair, piercings, what are we of a certain age and with squeamish sensibilities, to make of such modishness?

Crack Attack! 2010

Sagging baggies, tattoos, false nails and hair, piercings, what are we of a certain age and with squeamish sensibilities, to make of such modishness?

Michael Henry Adams: Crack Attack! 2010

Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them.

The new wave of literary events Alex Clark 2010

Banville is having his sly way with all the modishness so freely available in the intellectual and the not-so-intellectual culture, in the cults of secrecy and scandal that are so unrevealing.

FRIDAY GRAB BAG TEV 2005

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004