Sentence examples for with a tacky from inspiring English sources

Executed (ITV) commemorated this anniversary with a tacky documentary that sold its subject matter short.

The celebrities who lent their name to Planet Hollywood probably no longer relish being associated with a tacky fast-food chain that has gone bankrupt twice.

And I still remember a 1996 revival of Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" in which a character spritzed the theater with a tacky aerosol air freshener that seemed to be an emanation of her tacky middle-class soul.

When Carmen first meets a guy named Rob in a Proust class, she dismissively categorizes him as a clueless idiot who's there to pick up women, and imagines his apartment with a tacky leather sofa, dimmer switches and a Luther Vandross record collection.

But Yetnikoff loses us right from Page 1 by beginning his book with a tacky and maladroit episode that he soon reveals was all a daydream: "After her third orgasm, Jackie O looked at me with a mixture of gratitude and awe.

I'm not going to lie to you; when I see the fresh and timeless beauty of a soft little face with a tacky piece of plastic sticking out the middle, it feels all wrong to me – like a Post-it note on a Monet.

4. To the ground fish, add ground onions, matzos, eggs, salt and pepper and mix well with your hands to a tacky consistency.

Both groups appealed (particularly through television) to listeners older and younger than the dedicated dancers, combining child-friendly choruses with slick choreography and a tacky erotic glamour that gave Abba, in particular, a camp appeal that was a major influence on late 1970s gay music culture.

Mental-health screening, so that a madman with a military and a tacky branding empire can't get hold of them, is a sound idea, just so long as it doesn't prevent law-abiding citizens from buying a vintage SSM-N-8 Regulus at a nuclear-missile show or picking up some uranium-235 and a centrifuge on a milk-and-bread run to Walmart.

It gleams with a faintly tacky, country club sheen.

The bronze surface had been primed, then prepared with a slightly tacky coating to which the ultrathin leaf could be transferred with the least amount of pressure.