Example sentences for: kitsch

How can you use “kitsch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To love a line like that is a treason against my high aesthetics--not to love it a treason against my even higher propensity for florid kitsch.

  • You cannot get to know this country properly, even if you don’t want to buy anything, without exploring the rich and varied range of traditional arts and crafts, the famous cornucopia of electronic gadgets and precision instruments, or the impressively awful selection of kitsch souvenirs in the major tourist centers.

  • Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a "cineplex" (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of overkill: steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).

  • Hannah Höch said she discovered its possibilities when she saw a kitsch tableau of German military glory; the idealized soldier had her landlord's face pasted on.

  • I am uncertain about the extent to which public funds should be used to fund art--whether that art be kitsch or politically controversial statements.


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