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Also I must say that more special originality and even _newness_ (though this might be called a vulgarizing word), of thought and picture in individual lines -- more of this than I find here -- seems to me the very first qualification of a sonnet -- otherwise it puts forward no right to be so short, but might seem a severed passage from a longer poem depending on development.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

The music must not show the influence of “comic operas” or the “popular classics” favored by “freak-fashionables” who are “vulgarizing your high heritage” and “undoing the work of Washington and Lincoln.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

While most understand the vulgarizing of a popular local icon to promote sales, they quickly dismiss La Virgen as an amusing bit of folklore.

La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico 2006

While most understand the vulgarizing of a popular local icon to promote sales, they quickly dismiss La Virgen as an amusing bit of folklore.

La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico 2006

Here Scott stages the vulgarizing effects of social leveling, for the disintegration of hierarchy wreaks havoc upon the orderly functioning of the collective.

Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006

Did Tina Brown, The New Yorker's current editor, who is often accused of vulgarizing Shawn's great magazine, urge Ross to tell all?

A New Yorker Love Story 2008

Oh, Dave, the latter-day TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a work of affectionate vulgarizing; the "remakes" of PSYCHO and THE HAUNTING were literally and figuratively masturbatory exercises in contempt.

The Heartbreak Kid--my heartbreak Ed Gorman 2007

There can be no doubt that children should be taught those useful things which are really necessary, but not all useful things; for occupations are divided into liberal and illiberal; and to young children should be imparted only such kinds of knowledge as will be useful to them without vulgarizing them.

Politics Aristotle 2002

The Antarctic possessed a virginity, in his mind, that provided an alternative to the spoiled and messy world, and he wrote in his diary about "the terrible vulgarizing which Shackleton has introduced to the Southern field of enterprise, hitherto so clean and wholesome."

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

QUOTATION: Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammals—not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 1989