However, a great natural effect holds its own against no little vulgarization, and Watkins Glen soon made us forget the trippers and the concrete footpaths and iron railings of the United States government, in the fantasies of its weirdly channelled gorge and mysterious busy water.
"October Vagabonds"
Richard Le Gallienne
It was the fussy, sentimental, inconsiderate interest in one thrown into purely accidental and necessarily painful prominence-the vulgarization of an unspeakable tragedy-that my soul abhorred.
"Dead Men Tell No Tales"
E. W. Hornung
The fact that such a procedure was customary among their successors may mean that it was really archaic; or on the other hand the possibility must not be overlooked that it may be merely the later vulgarization of a practice which originally was devised for purely ritual purposes.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith