kitsch

Converse of object

• sound: MB: Do you think it sounds a bit kitsch now with hindsight?
• transcend: Transcending kitsch, Ferris wittily uses cliché to describe emotional absolutes, validating the gushy and saccharine as genuine sensation.
• produce: Later artists parodied the excesses, producing religious kitsch loathsome to the austere Protestant ethic.
• look: I'm not jealous of something I find looks kitsch, gimme a break!
• become: Instead, the familiar emblems of sexuality and kitsch simply become a problem of design.

Adjective modifier

• little: The furniture is somewhat a little kitsch but everything is clean and you feel like you're in a little palace.
• 60s: The other songs were selected by Barry and show various facets of typical 60s kitsch.
• chic: Antique, vintage, retro, kitsch, shabby chic, kitsch and collectible china, pottery and porcelain decorative pieces.
• commercial: It must then that the seeds of his commercial kitsch were sown.
• 50s: Its famous markets attract thousands of locals and tourists and sell everything from new and second-hand clothes, to 70s music and 50s kitsch.
• sentimental: For the public it wanted heroic figures which perpetuated racist myths or sickly sentimental kitsch.

Modifies a noun

• value: Even tho the kitsch value of the first series cannot be surmounted.
• taste: Toe ring lovers often have a " stylish " , big ( low-end ) fashion chains, kitsch taste.
• appeal: Or try Love, appropriately named and full of kitsch appeal.
• art: Van Gogh style paintings are used as backgrounds to colorful characters made up in Jeff Koons kitsch art poses.
• object: What qualities are associated with it and do those attributes reside in the conception or the reception of the kitsch object or image?
• item: Kitsch is not necessarily a term of abuse and there is a strong consumer liking for certain kitsch items.

Noun used with modifier

• retro: Stardust Tin Toys Sells tin toy collectables, robots, spaceships and the retro kitsch.
• bit: Anything that's a bit offbeat, a bit kitsch, a bit interesting, a bit bizarre.
• tourist: The Temple Bar pub, while unashamedly promoting tourist kitsch, has the best beer garden in the city and excellent irish musicians.