Now, if we want to pin down poshlost in contemporary writing, we must look for it in Freudian symbolism, moth-eaten mythologies, social comment, humanistic messages, political allegories, overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know.

[T]hese writings […] were fragmentary, contradictory, and eisegesistic.

The police cleared the crowd out of the street to investigate the accident.

A kiss of reconciliation settled the matter, and Lord Penrhyn again composed himself in his most composing arm-chair.