Sentence examples for tacky merchandise from inspiring English sources

And they have turned certain ports of call into crowded bazaars filled with tacky merchandise and tourist hordes.

Fans of the novel, which is after all based on the premise that to achieve happiness one must break free from the shackles of 21st-century consumer culture – have been upset, and faintly gobsmacked, at the film studio's efforts to use the supposedly anti-capitalist movie's release to endorse several ranges of stupendously tacky merchandise.

Watterson's insouciant young Calvin, a deep thinker and a rascal, is at once insanely creative and maddeningly temperamental — the inspiration, no doubt, for a million pranks and daydreams (and some unfortunate, tacky merchandise, in spite of Watterson's resistance to any licensing).

Father's Day is widely seen as a 'Hallmark Holiday', made up by card companies to sell tacky merchandise, and every year results in impressive shows of feigned enthusiasm from dads across the country when they're handed yet another pair of novelty socks or a 'World's Best Dad' mug.

9. What if Disney sells out the brand, over-commercializes it, and creates insane amounts of tacky merchandise!

It was a strange spectacle akin to an apocalyptic Christmas lights switch-on or fireworks display, but there were no rubbish local celebrities overseeing proceedings, no countdown and no tacky merchandise in sight.

Up here on the twenty-eighth floor, in the fine, thin air of media planning, all the tacky merchandising stuff has fallen away, and the pictures in the offices are not of Axl Rose and Madonna but of family and political leaders.

This chronicle, by a seasoned practitioner, of the halting but persistent ascent of skateboarding is sharp and winning, depicting from the inside the evolution of a subculture that has retained its stylistic distinctiveness even as it has spawned ESPN shows and tacky merchandising franchises.

Our hero's quest takes him to Portugal and Paris, from the charms of Lena Olin to those of Emmanuelle Seigner (the official muse to Polanski, who seldom misses a chance to exhibit his beloved's bosom to the world), and from professional inquiry to eternal desperation; it also drags him down into the tacky merchandising that so offends the good taste of aspiring Satanists.

The bronze age of TV sitcom and adventure cartoons of the 1960s was defined by horrid frame rates, plagiarised character design, tacky merchandising, and cost-cutting animation techniques (think the looping backgrounds of The Jetsons).

Emma made a point of checking out the ticky-tacky merchandise at the countless beach shops in all the towns.