Citations:kitsch

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• 1989, Graham Greene, Yours etc: Letters to the Press 1945-1989, →ISBN, p. 243,

  […] a picture of lemur-eyed children of the sort one sees in the kitscher sort of Italian restaurant […]

• 1995, Damien Broderick, Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction, →ISBN, p. 50,

  Many of her aesthetic conceits, built into the living landscape, are drawn from human television programmes in the kitschest taste.

• 1996, Robert Silberman, "The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio", American Craft, Jun/Jul 1996, pp. 40-45,

  Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.

• 1997, "King Is Dead, But Elvis Inc. Is On A Roll", Seattle Times, August 17,

  At first, the products were even more kitsch than they are now […]

• 1999, "Diva in the lion's den", The Guardian, May 29,

  At one level, the Eurovision is simply the kitschest show on earth.

• 2001, Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, →ISBN, p. 167,

  It's the coolest, kitschest frame I've ever seen.

• 2004, Neal Bedford, Jane Rawson & Matt Warren, Czech & Slovak Republics, →ISBN, p. 297,

  […] , but the retro lobby is kitscher than a rest home for spent Bond villains.

• 2005, Ronald Frame, "Critical Paranoia", Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005, p. 285,

  I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.

• 2006, Lili Artel, "Cantata for Five Voices", Bridges, Spring 2006, p. 91,

  Govind thinks it's a kitsch idea but Leanne insists.

• 2006, Ciar Byrne, "Why Jordan wedding was 'OK!' in sales battle", The Independent online, February 13,

  It was the most kitsch wedding of last year.

• 2008, Andrew Billen, "Draw near, good people", The New Statesman online, 12 June,

  The other [theme] is the supremacy of art, how, even at its most kitsch, it can endure the cruellest oppression.

• 2008, "Rabih Kayrouz: the sponsor of four young designers", iloubnan.info, August 27,

  The designs that closed the fashion show were more kitsch, just like the fifties and seventies styles.

• 2000 January 29, Roxanne Roberts, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio

  The tiny brine shrimp sold [as] dehydrated eggs that can be hatched in water in twenty-four hours, have a retro kitsch cache[t] that’s recently boosted sales.