tinsel-like
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tinsel (ˈtɪnsəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a decoration consisting of a piece of string with thin strips of metal foil attached along its length
2.  a yarn or fabric interwoven with strands of glittering thread
3.  anything cheap, showy, and gaudy
 
—vb , -sels, -selling, -selled, -sels, -seling, -seled
4.  to decorate with or as if with tinsel: snow tinsels the trees
5.  to give a gaudy appearance to
 
—adj
6.  made of or decorated with tinsel
7.  showily but cheaply attractive; gaudy
 
[C16: from Old French estincele a spark, from Latin scintilla; compare stencil]
 
'tinsel-like
 
—adj
 
'tinselly
 
—adj

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"With a single companion, I soon found my way to the church of Notre Dame.... The Catholic are the only churches which I have seen worth remembering, which are not almost wholly profane. I do not speak only of the rich and splendid like this, but of the humblest of them as well. Coming from the hurrahing mob and the rattling carriages, we pushed aside the listed door of this church, and found ourselves instantly in an atmosphere which might be sacred to thought and religion, if one had any. There sat one or two women who had stolen a moment from the concerns of the day, as they were passing; but, if there had been fifty people there, it would still have been the most solitary place imaginable. They did not look up at us, nor did one regard another.... I was impressed by the quiet, religious atmosphere of the place. It was a great cave in the midst of a city; and what were the altars and the tinsel but the sparkling stalactites, into which you entered in a moment, and where the still atmosphere and the sombre light disposed to serious and profitable thought? Such a cave at hand, which you can enter any day, is worth a thousand of our churches which are open only Sundays, hardly long enough for an airing, and then filled with a bustling congregation,—a church where the priest is the least part, where you do your own preaching, where the universe preaches to you and can be heard. I am not sure but this Catholic religion would be an admirable one if the priest were quite omitted. I think that I might go to church myself some Monday, if I lived in a city where there was such a one to go to.... As for the Protestant churches, here or elsewhere, they did not interest me, for it is only as caves that churches interest me at all, and in that respect they were inferior."
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