trappings

As you strip away the trappings of your old life, you come to realize that all you really need are the bare essentials.

Though born into wealth, he ultimately gave it all away and through the course of his life managed to let go of material trappings.

China may have acquired the gleaming trappings of a modern industrial economy, but it has not developed the governance systems to match.

But how I should like to see with my own eyes the fascinating figure of Hamlet, or the gusty Falstaff amid colorful Elizabethan trappings!

Even the officially atheist Communist Party is beginning to embrace at least the trappings of spirituality and tradition.

A further sign of the presidential trappings that will soon be part of his daily life was the motorcade.

He gazed recently at the 11-story structure, in a slum that has begun to take on the trappings of a lower-middle-class district.

Such places come with most of the trappings and comforts of a state, but few of the niggling international obligations.

And there was wine and cheese and a red-checked tablecloth -- all the romantic trappings.

When life's daily trappings and keepsakes are laid out for sale on a collapsible table, sentiment is the first thing to go.

On offer at Alaba market are the trappings of a comfortable existence: fridges, televisions, air conditioning units, cookers.

To dress up a simple expressive folk tune in the trappings of a symphony is to degrade it.

Berlusconi's quest for votes, however, was conducted with all the trappings of a high-powered American-style advertising campaign.

Appropriately enough, it's about a former president who's having trouble letting go of the trappings of his office.

Beneath all the requisite genre trappings there 's a vast , empty gulch where the affecting dramatic element should have been found .

The trappings of humanity's race are on display in London's Science Museum.

Eliyah's cabin, though, has none of these modern trappings.

So while Japan has the trappings of a western-style democracy in practice power resides in a Japanese-style Confucian state.

Thanks to this move, the Glib object system is now completely independent of GUI-related trappings.

Later, some of the "heavy metal" groups began adopting much of the trappings, symbolism and rhetoric of Satanism.

Underneath the trappings of my aged body was the real me, a 26-year-old woman.

The theory they were testing was that status per se, rather than the trappings of status, such as wealth, act to prolong life.

While embracing some of the trappings of capitalism, China remains a rigid, totalitarian dictatorship.

Their only hope is to go on a journey of rediscovery and try to find a way to live without the trappings of modern society.

Microsoft has found that operations of this scale tend to include all the trappings of legitimate businesses.

Meanwhile, far from offering something new, the DPJ has taken on the trappings of the old LDP.

What are the outward trappings of confidence that you would like to have yourself?

She adopted the trappings of student government kids, alternative potheads, debate geeks, jocks, partiers, and ultimately mean cheerleaders.

But despite the trappings of political openness, the country's first elections in two decades were hardly an exercise in democracy.

The trip has all the trappings of an elaborate chess game aimed at reining in Chinese influence in the region.

Shearing avoided the trappings of jazz fusion, synthesizers and electronics that arrived late in his career.

When you use a data binding API, you can work with the data in an XML document essentially without the trappings of XML.

My favorite of Sade's six albums, "Lovers Rock" (2000), was the first to largely ditch the jazz trappings and use more acoustic guitars.

A wider audience realized it was possible to enjoy the music, drugs and fun without the ideological trappings.

Disgusted with the institution he had joined, Kyle discarded his badges and merits, and cast away his Imperial trappings.

The Crisis, a vehement new paper, attacked "all the gaudy trappings of royalty" and the villainy of the King.

By the end of the 90s, Pitt was awash in the trappings of celebrity but says he hankered after greater focus and fulfilment.

We are a Corporate Run country with the trappings of a Republic.

In such particulars Poe hardly differs from the mass of sensational writers who used the trappings of the Gothic Novel.

She was arrayed with splendid trappings.

The sketches imitated the trappings of real relationships but within a fantasy world of love and betrayal.

The family and boardroom saga had all the trappings of a soap opera.

Suelo may have shunned all the trappings of modern American life, but he is not an isolationist.

The French had laid on all the usual ceremonial trappings of power and pomp, something which they, like we, do rather well.

it also distrusts the 'social wage' and all other trappings of the welfare state.

All state-owned, their bosses enjoy ministerial-level status and trappings.

One nobleman might sport a Polish shield, and Persian robe and use Turkish horse trappings.

Trappings do not make the horse; clothes do not make the man.

You should work to be free of the trappings that cause jealousy.

In each there are spells and potions and wands and spell books, all the trappings of classic fairy tale magic.

Why do you think the rich crave the trappings of Old Money?

The Chinese economy and the trappings of middle class life are now buying the silence of an entire generation.

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He had the trappings of high office but no real power.

And it seems that the students themselves are all to willing to forgo such trappings of independence.

They enjoyed all the trappings of wealth.

GAZA'S governors rarely miss a chance to flaunt the trappings of power.

Many Americans, lacking true upward mobility, bought its trappings, such as a bigger house or better car.

My husband never falls for outward trappings.

However, in my opinion one can discard all these irrelevant trappings that accompany Valentine's Day.

We may not have the formal trappings of royalty, but we have plenty of barriers.

He wore all the trappings of high officer.

You might join a friend just to talk and not worry about all the expensive trappings we so often heap on get-together's.

A horse is neither better nor worse for its trappings.

He had trappings of high office but no real power.

They have the trappings of the private sector, such as boards of directors and listings on a stockmarket.

all the trappings of power.

He also shuns the trappings of wealth.

We all need to be aware of clickjacking and how to avoid its trappings.

The impact from mass markets in middle-class trappings such as cars and air-conditioners has yet to kick in.

Otherwise they will try to hang on to some trappings of independence, such as their veto over the editor.

That when I have kids, I am going to want a huge McMansion, private school tuition and all of the fancy trappings like them.

Unlike last year, when Mr Koizumi wore a business suit, his visit bore the trappings of an official prime ministerial pilgrimage.

That is, he had a vision of Christ that did not include supernatural trappings.

Many trappings are of our own making. The good thing is that if they are of our own making, then we can unmake them.

I would as soon see you, Mr. Rochester, tricked out in stage-trappings, as myself clad in a court-lady's robe;

We cannot strip away the conceptual trappings sentence by sentence and leave a description of the objective world;

Analysis of symbolic signs of Chinese nationality trappings

The Influence of National Trappings Culture on Modern Trappings

A Survey on Official Trappings in Mural Paintings of Tang Dynasty Tombs in Xi'an Area

Trappings: n [pl] outward signs of prestige, wealth, etc

who eschew the typical male trappings of cars and big salaries

a big car, a country house, and all the other trappings of success

On the Dragon Totem in the Chinese Traditional Trappings

The tree of western trappings

The tree of Chinese trappings

On the Protection of Cultures of Ethnic Minority's Trappings in China

so we see the trappings of power