Sentence examples for tacky stage from inspiring English sources

Nangoro was fascinated by the Englishman's white skin and straight hair, and moderately pleased when the tacky stage crown was placed on his head.

Or the stand, showing the work of American painter Karen Kilimnik, decked out like a tacky stage set of an 18th-century drawing room, replete with fireplace, escritoires and chandeliers?

And one person's "great" is another person's tacky stage show or overwrought rendition.

Afterward, it will return to the cloudy, tacky stage for several days.

The West Indian takeout restaurant of the title — "one notch above tacky," according to the stage directions — takes its name from the notorious slave-trade fort in Ghana.

It's clear that the conscience of the killer has been caught through envisioning and staging these tacky scenes.

In its hip, condescending way, the new movie is every bit as funny as the earlier film, which painted an amusing but patronizing portrait of a Missouri town staging a tacky historical pageant with Broadway pretensions.

To make her more foolish, Mr. Newman staged that entrance behind tacky rippling fabric, spanning the width of the stage, meant to suggest a hedge.

Here every element is poorly thought out, from the vague, cavernous set, the sound design (which includes the singing of field hands off stage for a tacky, Song Of The South touch) and actors who by and large have no focus or purpose.

At this temperature, the sugar enters what culinary experts call the "hardball" candy stage, gaining a thick, tacky, adhesive quality — perfect for waxing.

Sporting a spiked mullet and a series of tacky T-shirts, he zips around the stage merrily, adding comic commentary or plugging a hole in the plot.