What's the difference between garbage and kitsch?

Garbage


Definition:

  • (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
  • (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparent digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, and nitrogen-free extract in garbage and control diets averaged 54.2 and 47.4, 50.0 and 41.3, 62.0 and 65.1, 53.1 and 42.3, and 61.8 and 54.5% as determined by chromium oxide technique.
  • (2) In a week that has witnessed Rachel Dolezal’s return , the Ashley Madison hack and those Gawker resignations , we didn’t need any more garbage news – and it’s only Wednesday.
  • (3) Is Mexico the diplomatic equivalent of the Pacific garbage patch: the place where failed negotiations go to die?
  • (4) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
  • (5) That’s when my attorney came.” Police arrested another man, whom the Guardian will call Anthony, in 2006 on charges of starting a garbage fire, and moved him to Homan Square.
  • (6) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.
  • (7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
  • (8) I watched them drag him out like a piece of garbage.” Police say Robinson died after arriving at a local hospital, but Ennis disputed this.
  • (9) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
  • (10) The river used to bring nothing but pollution but in the last five years or so there is cleaner water, more nutrients and less garbage,” he said, adding that other conservation and protection measures elsewhere in the region have also improved the ocean waters considerably.
  • (11) Dani Alves, who this week called the Spanish media “garbage” for the way it covers soccer, came off the bench in the second half and was loudly cheered by the Barcelona fans.
  • (12) It is composed of a garbage bin plus lid, attractant and insecticide-treated offal.
  • (13) So, the fans will be cold, but other than that, it seems the biggest impact this Arctic snap will have on the region will be down I-43 in the city of Sheboygan where garbage collection has been delayed.
  • (14) As chair of the campaign in Epping (population: 6,411), he spends 30 hours each week making phone calls, attending Republican meetings in his and surrounding towns, and visiting the local garbage dump to evangelize Trump as more than a flash in the pan.
  • (15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
  • (16) It's significantly less garbage-tasting, and potent enough to suitably end the evening.
  • (17) I want a pile of powder meth, 500 hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in.
  • (18) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
  • (19) That said, everyone in this election is literal garbage, even the candidates who aren’t publicly in denial about their own garbage bodies and brains.
  • (20) Read more “My street is cleaner,” people say, ignoring the fact that the 6,000 tonnes of garbage collected is being moved unsustainably to other parts of the city.

Kitsch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
  • (2) The video was shot in three different locations across Moscow: a kitsch fort above the city’s Ismailovsky market; an abandoned and unheated Soviet-era palace of culture; and a disused jail.
  • (3) • 01323 411077, treasure-island.info ; children £5, adults £2.50, half price after 3pm Travis Elborough is author of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea Handpainted signs in Norfolk by Teena Vallerine, blogger on kitsch All along the Norfolk coast – from Hunstanton through Wells and Cromer, all the way around to Great Yarmouth – there are seaside towns that bring out the child in me.
  • (4) Coca-Cola, cactus and flight safety manual illustrations form the basis of the kitsch prints.
  • (5) Dozens of trams, lit up as trains, planes and cruise ships, rattle underneath miles of garish light bulbs, dozens of arcades playing every kitsch anthem there has ever been, from Agadoo to the Nolans, while families in daft hats eat candy in the shape of giant penises.
  • (6) But the film soon plummets into well-meaning kitsch, not least because of Béjo's excruciatingly gauche performance.
  • (7) The experience of kitsch can be identified when the spectator feels coerced by exaggerated, unconvincing theatrical devices, and fails to experience genuine empathy with the characters in a play.
  • (8) • blackpoolpier.co.uk Wayne Hemingway runs Hemingway Design and the Vintage at Goodwood festival ( vintageatgoodwood.com , 13-15 August) Treasure Island park, Eastbourne, Sussex by Travis Elborough, author As a nation whose empire was forged by the dubious activities of maritime privateers, it is not so surprising the British continue to find the pirate an object of romantic if kitsch fascination, commemorated in pub names, restaurants, fairground rides and theme parks in seaside towns around the country.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy Film buffs should love the kitsch Hollywood stylings of this hotel, which is awash with gilded statues, columns, marble and chandeliers.
  • (10) The state-run Beijing News said the Modern College of North-west University, located in Xi’an, had strung up banners around the campus reading “Strive to be outstanding sons and daughters of China , oppose kitsch western holidays” and “Resist the expansion of western culture”.
  • (11) Turn to other online shops Ebay celebrated 15 years of activity in the UK in 2014, when it sold 3bn items – not all of them kitsch memorabilia.
  • (12) Later, I returned, every school holiday, from the dark satanic mills of Blackburn to the seaside kitsch that adorned my nan's bungalow, a stone's throw from the promenade, funfairs and piers.
  • (13) For south-west ambience without the kitsch, seek out the Hermosa Inn and its Last Drop cocktail bar for drinks with a Sonoran desert twist.
  • (14) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
  • (15) A university in north-western China has banned Christmas , calling it a “kitsch” foreign celebration unbefitting of the country’s own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, state media said on Thursday.
  • (16) Rogers's architecture has its absurdities, but will be remembered when Terry's name appears only in footnotes appearing in books about kitsch.
  • (17) Kitsch beachcomber paintings adorn the walls; bartenders in Hawaiian shirts serve cocktails in conch shells.
  • (18) A Guardian colleague has already expressed the hope , probably vainly, that the art work will not be “a dire chunk of conservative kitsch”, but something abstract, contemporary.
  • (19) Atmosphere is everything at the Dark Horse, where the decor approaches kitsch, then veers smoothly into oddball creativity.
  • (20) • visitblackpool.com Vintage events , Margate, Kent Margate is a riot of kitsch and somewhat saucy seaside shenanigans.