Example sentences for: kitsch

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

  • The settings have a density of detail that makes them feel authentic, from the Brooklyn basement dens of the Russian mafia to the kitsch palaces of Atlantic City to the blue-collar bingo halls of Binghamton, N.Y.; and the aforementioned four page glossary is a bounty for urban anthropologists.

  • 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.

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.

  • Unlike fellow crooners (notably MTV hunk Tony Bennett), Sinatra has transcended irony and avoided kitsch.

  • Top target: Christian kitsch.


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