Sentence examples for tacky action from inspiring English sources
In just four films, the 22-year-old has gone from a tough feminist story set in the Bronx to a tacky action movie.
She sells scans of herself that can be used in perpetuity, insuring her immortality, but in contexts that she would never have agreed to in real life — tacky action movies, giant billboards, sexually graphic scenes.
"Out there it's wolves," says a resident of the tacky Soho club, where the action is set in 1958, just as rock'n'roll is becoming big business.
After the strobe- flash violence and tacky glitz of most contemporary action epics, underwater adventures can seem eerily civilized: a more thoughtful and deliberate brand of combat, one where strategy still matters and even killing is courtly.
But the pleasures of the event, of an afternoon or evening at the ballpark, are mostly in the encrustation of rituals and customs and tacky excesses that surround and frame the sporadic action, or lack of action, on the field.
Mr. Sultan's large color prints omit explicit sexual action, focusing instead on mundane, peripheral aspects: tacky studios, suburban house settings or actors hanging out off camera.
On the other hand, the overall action takes place within a dark-blue frame with sparkling stars, an apparent evocation of dreamland, that looks tacky.
And his bus-shelter ads were "tacky, tacky, tacky".
