Sentence examples for tackiness from inspiring English sources

What of them?The book skates past such questions, preferring to sorrow over greed and tackiness in modern life.

And the pantomime muse is even more disastrously invoked by the costumes, designs, lighting, and choreography, which are all the last word in tackiness.

The only trouble is that they have squandered it all on their trashy lifestyle (with its zebra-striped curtains and plastic deer antlers, Simon Higlett's set is a temple of nouveau riche tackiness).

According to The Stage, the show was "lazily put-together" with "too much tackiness".

It is a much more wholesome version of the Indian Premier League which, for all its riches and preening, has never managed the appropriate balance and as a result is the height of tackiness.

Then these images (scored with eerie singing saw) segue into an explicitly reconstructed flashback, which shows Durst's mother's suicide: a grotesque image, jolting the viewer with its tackiness.

But this does not seem to be a political moment in which tackiness alone is going to get someone off the debate stage.

You see them everywhere, a proliferating clan of insta-mini-giganto luxury houses, modest at ten to fifteen million dollars apiece. Their banal extravagance both mitigates and exacerbates what people either too rich or too poor to live in such houses would consider their tackiness.

Intentional low camp always seems wrong unless it's very funny; in trash, one wants clumsiness, even a certain tackiness, and this movie has the production values and the high-tech fluency of a much bigger movie.

Malloy's mini-opera is, in part, a roundelay set amid the tackiness one associates with both old and new Russia, where less décor would be considered less.

She's never tried to hide or apologize for her tackiness or her self-sculpting.