Sentence examples for tacky attempt from inspiring English sources

One of the highest selling Greek weekly newspapers, Proto Thema, referred to Skopje's monument habit as "a tacky attempt to create the illusion of a historic past reminding people more of Disneyland than of an ancient civilisation".The same paper, along with the popular daily Vima, ran articles condemning Angela Merkel for referring to "FYROM" as "Macedonia".

USA Todays Ken Barnes, however, found the track "campy" and "a tacky attempt at sexiness", adding that the combination of yodeling and the interpolation was "awkward".

During an appearance on France public television, she stated that she " wanted to offer a referendum on reinstating the death penalty," adding that she personally thinks that "such a possibility should exist," which provoked many outraged reactions from French Twitter users decrying a tacky attempt to score political capital from yesterday's events.

In the 70's, movies for children were, in essence, exploitation pictures -- cheap, tacky attempts to cash in on the tastes of a socially and economically marginal segment of the audience.

Despite all the tacky attempts at censorship, it wasn't the art world's most shameful decade (it wasn't great enough for that).

One-off booze shops sometimes can be tacky attempts to separate fanboys and girls from their daily bread or do "Instagram marketing," so we stopped by for an early look to see if it lives up to the hype.

Worse still are the tacky images attempting to draw a connection between this prestigious tube of H2O and the musings of Leornado Da Vinci, Audrey Hepburn, and others.

Before the Tottenham rapper was owning 2015 with his track Shutdown, his career had become derailed by the lure of major label money, and he was making cheesy tracks about Rolex watches with tacky dance routines in an attempt to mimic Dizzee's Bonkers rise.

Unlike many singers who reach for an international audience -- the lyrics on his albums are often translated from Arabic into French and English -- Mr. Sahir's attempts at crossover rarely turned tacky.

Initially, the ads featuring Mr. Zimmer in the mid-'80s were an attempt to make Men's Wearhouse less tacky.

The Spinal Tap material feels somewhat tacky – it was a tie-in with their then-current attempt to sell a new album – and Otto's not a strong character.