Sentence examples for as a tacky from inspiring English sources

Traditionalists view Barra as a tacky eyesore.

In the first story, we see Benna as a tacky nightclub singer.

The diamond itself was referred to as a "tacky memento" and a "cheap souvenir".

The Western ballet world used to deplore the addition of a Jester to "Swan Lake" as a tacky Soviet excuse for gratuitous display.

Vincent Canby endorsed it in The New York Times as "a tacky, vulgar, dirty, sometimes dull, often hilarious movie" with the tone of "a liberated college humor magazine".

Until then, US TV had routinely been sneered at in Britain as a tacky industry which might spasmodically flourish with something like Dallas, so bad it was good.

Use "finish" resin for the final coat, it contains wax that surfaces and gives a more finished result as well as not having a "tacky" sticky finished product.

Fleming once criticised the club's locker room as having a "tacky smell of old shoes and socks and last summer's sweat".

The story may be slight and obvious, but it sizzles as it satirizes a tacky genre of make-believe that regularly captivates thousands of Americans in arenas and millions more in front of their TV screens.

Loyal as always, H.D. finds a tacky little shop in Vienna where "an old bitch" sells her, at inflated prices, pictures of La Bergner that she sends on to Bryher.

And to judge by the interest in biographies of Henry's court from writers like Alison Weir, David Starkey and Antonia Fraser, as well as a lavishly tacky TV series chronicling the sex and violence of the inhabitants, those wily Tudors still command the imaginations of the second Elizabethan age.