Stephen Bayley, the culture critic, and John Goodall, architectural editor of Country Life magazine, accused him of "vulgarising" properties by putting on events that attempt to reconstruct the past. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After their death attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, to hallow their names while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarising it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From this system I should not like to depart; as far as I can see, Indiscriminate visiting tends only to a waste of time and a vulgarising of character. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Haworth Parsonage, with books for my household companions, and an occasional letter for a visitor; a mute society, but neither quarrelsome, nor vulgarising, nor unimproving. ❋ Unknown (2002)
'Varsities will murder the language, debase the currency of manners, mumble unchecked of "libery," and "Febuery," and "seckertery," and in many other barbarous ways betray the vulgarising influence of culture. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is indeed a serious and difficult problem; and it is one of the problems thrust inevitably upon us by the spread of education and the consequent cheapening and vulgarising of education under the influence of democracy. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
The tide of tourists that flows yearly in Scotland, vulgarising all where it approaches, is still defined by certain barriers. ❋ Unknown (1912)
I am holding no brief for many English editors; I think that our papers can be common too, and can be too ready to take things by the wrong handle; but I think that more vulgarising of life is, at present, effected by American journalists than by English. ❋ Unknown (1903)
"The best spiritual work of criticism is to keep man from self-satisfaction which is retarding and vulgarising, to lead him towards perfection by making his mind dwell upon what is excellent in itself, and the absolute beauty and fitness of things." ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
Criticism's best spiritual work which is to keep man from a self-satisfaction which is retarding and vulgarising, to lead him towards perfection, by making his mind dwell upon what is excellent in itself, and the absolute beauty and fitness of things. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
In _The Little Minister_ success was achieved by entirely vulgarising a charming book, by throwing away all that distinguished it, and converting what might be called a delicately sentimental comedy into a farce. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)
It is you, freak-fashionables, who are undoing the work of Washington and Lincoln, vulgarising your high heritage, and turning the last and noblest hope of humanity into a caricature. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Agreed: but that does not say that the tavern was not an excellent corrective influence to the villa, and that its disappearance has not had a vulgarising effect on artistic work of all kinds, and the club has been proved impotent to replace it, the club being no more than the correlative of the villa. ❋ Unknown (1892)
I am not afraid of the accusation of vulgarising the classics. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Whatever you decide on will content me: if you do not go, you will be spared a vulgarising impression of the book; if you _do_ go, I shall perhaps gain a little information -- either alternative has its advantage. ❋ Clement King Shorter (1891)
Passing into the hall, he took his hat and coat, -- he was angry with himself, yet not ashamed, -- for something in his soul told him that he had done rightly, even as a minister of the Gospel, to utter a protest against the vulgarising of womanhood. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
It was the cheapening -- the vulgarising, so to speak, of her whole existence. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
