He had been accustomed to all this on Sark, but he, too, found the garishness of Upper City somewhat vulgar.

The dress was somewhat vulgar and far more suitable for an evening at the theater than a country breakfast, but Johanna was most interested in its origin.

"I think we've had a long period in the theater where it's been considered somewhat vulgar or sentimental to show emotion," he says.

Perhaps twenty years before, he might have been swayed by such tactics, but now he found them somewhat vulgar.

An impressionist novel, it relates the story of Katinka, a sensitive but ambitious young woman married to a boisterous and somewhat vulgar station master, Bai.

His eye wandered across the room to a far corner, where an exquisitely polished sofa table, loaded with decanters and glasses, was doing somewhat vulgar duty as a bar.

"If you will allow me to clothe my idea in a somewhat vulgar form," said he, "I might ask you, did you go to Midway for your health?"

Containing numerous references to fellatio, incest and violence, some consider the lyrics to be somewhat vulgar if unfamiliar with the genre's conventions.