kitsch

Example Sentences

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On TV, we had the White Heather Club - women in white frocks and tartan sashes dancing impossibly complicated reels and strathspeys; men in kilts playing accordions and singing kitsch songs about exile and nostalgia.

From BBC

Her unpredictable works, unafraid of kitsch, are costume pageants with room for prayer, feats of endurance and bravery that don’t disguise awkwardness and vulnerability.

From New York Times

Mussolini kitsch has long been for sale in Italian shops, and the removal of his portrait from a government ministry resulted — predictably! — in the Italian right wing declaring Mussolini a victim of cancel culture.

From Salon

Boston is filled with bronze monuments, and they are often overblown, ugly and kitsch.

From Washington Post

Wallace has an eye for Americana: the kitsch, the disorder, the atomization.

From Seattle Times