There is some talk that these hideous examples of technology over taste will be collectible someday.
But there was a note of bigotry beneath some of the rumblings over taste.
But it has led some traditionalists to assert that the drive to commercialize is running roughshod over historical authenticity and good taste.
But you eat a cat-eagle to give you strength and ambition, not to be fussy over taste.
There is the related concern over public taste and commercial appeal.
The ceremony had been grand, but necessarily decorous; the reception, however, was a triumph of excess over good taste.
Critics call the British pop group a triumph of marketing over taste (their debut album sold 18 million copies).
The commercials often asked children to choose which cereal was better, and to compete over taste or premiums.
Some say it was a decade in which show was celebrated over substance, wealth over taste.
It's all about the triumph of status and marketing over critical thinking and good taste.