kitschier

I'm just not used to seeing the word 'English' anywhere, unless it's prefacing the words 'cream tea' outside the kitschier kind of tea shop - or introducing a Vogue fashion spread, alongside the words 'eccentric,' 'eclectic,' and 'tweed.'

Archive 2009-09-01 juliette 2009

For variety, there was the 12 Girls Band, wielding traditional instruments like a Chinese Riverdance troupe only kitschier, unless you like Mozart played on erhu (Chinese violin) with a funk beat.

Live Earth: Earnest Crooners and a “Supersonic Speed Machine” in Australia, China and Japan - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

I'm just not used to seeing the word 'English' anywhere, unless it's prefacing the words 'cream tea' outside the kitschier kind of tea shop - or introducing a Vogue fashion spread, alongside the words 'eccentric,' 'eclectic,' and 'tweed.'

The National Affront juliette 2009

For variety, there was the 12 Girls Band, wielding traditional instruments like a Chinese Riverdance troupe only kitschier, unless you like Mozart played on erhu (Chinese violin) with a funk beat.

Live Earth: Earnest Crooners and a “Supersonic Speed Machine” in Australia, China and Japan - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

As Gwen, a waitress in one of Boston's kitschier Hungarian restaurants, she blithely beds down with Newton Davis (Steve Martin), a nice-guy architect.

When Real Estate Is Really Like Sex 2008

They don't come any kitschier than The Devil's Advocate, which has McDeep things to tell us about Good and Evil, love and lust, free will and fate.

New York's A Helluva Town 2008

I also get a kick out of the blow-up Barneys tho we don't see too many of those per se out in rural Idaho-- but I am a sucker for some of the kitschier aspects of Christmas.

The Bishop's Wife (1947) Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

This was during his "black oak period," when he painted portraits and group portraits of people standing before a massive Louisiana oak, and before he got into his kitschier and incredibly successful "blue dog period," creating hundreds of paintings and silkscreens featuring a rather anxious-looking spaniel.

Archive 2007-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

This was during his "black oak period," when he painted portraits and group portraits of people standing before a massive Louisiana oak, and before he got into his kitschier and incredibly successful "blue dog period," creating hundreds of paintings and silkscreens featuring a rather anxious-looking spaniel.

Legends of the Waiter, Part III Walter Jon Williams 2007

Speaking of Pet Shop Boys, here's a much kitschier video that was very popular in Moscow last time I was there.

The Speculist: Quick Trip to Russia 2006