Citations:glitzkrieg

Noun: "(informal) an assault of luxuriousness, extravagance, or ostentation"

 * 1984, Vanity Fair, Volume 47, page 62:
 * Because he parlayed the Brooklyn apartments built by his father into a metropolitan real-estate kingdom exemplified by the extraordinary Trump Tower, a glitzkrieg of marble, glass, and brass where millions shop and millionaires live,
 * 1989, Peter B. Vaill, Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change, Jossey-Bass (1989), ISBN 9781555421403, page 213:
 * Still, would anyone deny that postwar Americans have been living in the middle of the greatest "glitzkrieg" in human history?
 * 1990, Harry Shearer, "Jailhouse Schlock", Spy, February 1990, pages 90-91:
 * A trademark line in his shows, always uttered just as the chiffoniest, most diaphanous piece of glitzkrieg emerges onstage, is "If I were a woman, this is how I would want to enter a room."
 * 1996, Rhonda Lieberman, "I, Fabulous", Spin, March 1996, page 76:
 * "Supermodels" were launched during the glitzkrieg of the '80s, when brand-name girls like Linda, Christy, Naomi, and Cindy were promoted as special commodities with individual identities.
 * 1997, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture, Volume 50, page 229:
 * One impact of the unremitting, relentless media glitzkrieg and urbanisation is the denigration or stifling of the culture of emotions.
 * 2004, India Today International, Volume 3, Issues 39-52, unnumbered page:
 * The Bollywood Saga, by Dinesh Raheja and Jitendra Kothari, documents the journey of Hindi films, analysing changes that marked each passing era — from the early silent years to the post-millennial "glitzkrieg" of mega-budget films.
 * 2010, Laurence Senelick, The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner, Library of America (2010), ISBN 9781598530698, page 765:
 * Bob Fosse managed to turn Stephen Schwartz's Pippin from the sentimental celebration of innocence and idealism that the author thought he had written into a glitzkrieg that reflected his own obsessed hedonism — and audiences loved it.