How To Use Kitschy In A Sentence
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The poem recounts, with heavy tones and little irony, the kitschy mock-trial proceedings, in which an audience of tourists deems Bishop guilty of witchery.
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Kitschy Christmas cards can be found at any convenience store in any town across the United States.
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Kitschy LivingA whole load of kitsch from a "Nice Jewish Guys" calendar to Clockwork Orange jumpers.203gowFrom knitted benches to crocheted Buddhas, the work of the Japan's finest guerrilla crafter.
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The sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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The house he and his companion inhabit, with its wood paneling, kitschy horse lamp and loosely covered sofa, is far from upscale suburbia.
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She steals a pair of ancient earrings on display in a kitschy African mall store.
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Her nature vistas also coolly refer to the kitschy scenes found on the sides of customized vans.
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But to have the opportunity to compare Bouguereau's "L'Amour Vainqueur," a virtuosic 1886 painting of Cupid and Psyche in flight, sitting side by side with Jeff Koons's "Cherubs," a couple of kitschy putti that ought to kill the market in porcelain collectibles for good, flatters both works.
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“Up” means St Moritz, where from December until April, Milanese society is to be found every weekend munching apfelstrudel at Hanselman’s, hosting kitschy raclette parties in their houses at Zuoz or Celerina and possibly taking a run down the Trais Fluors or the Corvatsch.
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Others - notably of sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus - could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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I won't say much about the humor because I don't want to spoil anything, but I will love how they "reenacted" a kitschy and well known painting.
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It is difficult to make fun of work done to benefit hospitalized children and to address issues of construction, ecology and public safety, but these fantastic projects may one day be culture purls for Stitchy McYarnpants at her Museum of Kitschy Stitches, when she's exhausted the wealth of acrylic and wool prizes such as crocheted beer can sleeves, pom pom barrettes and baubles, freaky ski masks, and "krotch-tite spray-on knitwear" from the 1960's and 1970's.
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He runs a kitschy bathroom novelties outlet in Los Angeles.
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Her works, which comprise photos, installations, videos and sculptures, are replete with kitschy imagery.
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There's also a wonderfully kitschy, pointed altar arch, and a sequence of glitzily Baroque side chapels.
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In post-war England, the somewhat kitschy chain of "Holiday Camps" designed for the British working class were popular recreation meccas.
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The room was supposed to look funky: brick-red walls, revolving beer signs, kitschy memorabilia.
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Neate's works allude to aspects of art history that critical received taste occasionally dismisses as slightly kitschy.
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Proudly home to kitschy 1970s furniture and vintage wall hangings depicting Neil Armstrong, JFK and dogs playing poker, the independent coffeehouse Soma serves up lattes, mochas, macchiatos and regular cups of joe.
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Her blonde weave, plucked and meticulously painted eyebrows, bandana, kitschy makeup, and attitude exude hip-hop's aesthetic.
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It's kitschy and campy, but not glamorous - bring an extra cardie for night-time.
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Feeling adventurous, I selected the ambery fluid in the retro-kitschy-chic Jean Paul Gaultier snowglobe bottle, because a) I tend to enjoy ambers; b) the idea of Gaultier invokes edginess; c) I remember spraying Classique early last fall, and thinking it was indeed nice in a "classic" way uh-oh...see where this is heading?...); d) the juice is amber colored, and has that darn torso inside it.
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Were President Obama to overreach for that kind of kitschy sudz-n-ammo symbolism in 2010, it would only make things worse for the himself and the Democrats.
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Mr. ROTELLA: ... and so many other songs that came after that were kind of kitschy but really pop and really kind of fun.
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A lush, somewhat kitschy but at times intense telling of one of the most oft-told stories in filmdom (I think there’s even been a silent Madame X or two).
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Most reminiscent of the '60s, however, is a kitschy utopianism that underwrites all manner of oracular dicta, odd complaints, and questionable advice to the lovelorn.
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Whether Times Square is worth visiting depends on how you feel about being forced along with throngs of crowds to see streets full of kitschy souvenir shops and neon signs crammed into every corner.
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A kitschy clock in the shape of a cat swings its tail on the wall.
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At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
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So, again, what about Star Trek is Jar Jar saying is 'kitschy'?
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Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos, kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.
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In a tape loop in the living-room installation, she projects the image of an old television on two kitschy landscapes.
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This favored stop in Homestead is one man's kitschy do-it-yourself testament to lost love: Latvian immigrant Ed Leedskalnin dug up over 2.2 million tons of coral rock to build this mock castle.
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I'm still waiting for the culture to rid itself of its tiresome reverence of the 60s and kitschy kicky indulgence of the 70s, and explore the 80s as something other than an era of legwarmers, poufy hair, shoulderpads and Dallas.
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Today, Liberace's name elicits smirks from many of those who recall the kitschy pianist from TV shows of their youth.
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Sergey Maximishin's pictures of Russia are incredible, from the kitschy to the haunting to the just plain freaky.
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You have to get rid of kitschy bird bath and your bear totem pole that you got in college that the neighbors hate and pull out that edger.
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And let's ask this pertinent question: What "kitschy" qualities does he feel Star Trek has?
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He is the author of a kitschy science fiction novel about an earthling who decides to pay back his student loan by teaching English on a distant planet.
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But we could also argue that the act of portraying the high priest of the Old Ones in such cutesy-kitschy form represents an attempt to tame, defang, and neuter the shrieking horror of our plight instead of gleefully accepting it.
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.)
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The painting has elements that recall kitschy Florida palm tree souvenirs.
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The scene is set at a kitschy Havana nightclub where the protagonists drift off with different partners.
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He also adds that "there's a certain thing that you can't really hold onto, which is … there's a kind of kitschy quality that must go if it's going to be something that you believe is real.
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Smithsonian magazine looks at the history and tradition of hula and its reemergence from the 1950s and 60s Hawaiiana boom that threatened to turn the beautiful dance into a kitschy coconut bra-wearing simulacra of itself.
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They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck.
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Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags.
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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Flared wraparounds made from Maharashtrian lungis and Maharashtrian Nau-vari saris, kitschy floral jholas and chappals with bead works are also lined up for display at the studio.
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Locals and tourists alike find it hard to resist the allure of low-priced smoked fish, blinis, and beer served in a friendly, and, to be frank, kitschy atmosphere.
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The kitschy cuteness of kawaii (cute) consumer culture, so well documented by Sharon Kinsella in her article, " Cuties in Japan ", surfaces in several Miyazaki texts.
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The Name of This Book Is Secret) employs the hues and kitschy design of 1950s children's books and animation, completing the retro look with postatomic snowflake sparkles and wavering outlines that resemble stitchery.
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Herzog has continually demonstrated that environmentally friendly architecture is not synonymous with kitschy handcrafts, and a life reduced to eating muesli in mud huts.