Example sentences for: kitsch

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

  • Top target: Christian kitsch.

  • It is "virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). One cage is left unrattled, though: Stephen Holden of the New York Times delivers an uncharacteristically nasty write-up, calling it "gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch" that is "a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come ." (Click here to visit the official site.)

  • We're talking cornball kitsch that couldn't even get an audience at a hip coffee bar today.

  • 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).

  • 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.


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