Example Sentences

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He loved his familiar surroundings, for nothing can vulgarise Oxford.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

For the rest the crudity and levity of the whole affair were decidedly painful, and few things, I think, have lately done more to vulgarise the public sense of the character of artistic production.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

Incense is full of divine and beautiful suggestion; but the moment you begin to vulgarise it by talking, or even thinking, of its smell, all beauty and significance is destroyed.

From Japan A Record in Colour by Menpes, Dorothy

I will, therefore, say, that the inward beauty, whether fully represented or not by the outward form, implies, in the first place, the absence of all those qualities which tend to lower and vulgarise life.

From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie

It is so easy for posterity to vulgarise, by idle and unappreciative curiosity, spots that are sacred only to the few who feel them to be shrines.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William