Kitchen Sink

At first glance, this season's kitchen-sink approach appears to undermine the premise that fashion reflects the prevailing zeitgeist. ❋ Tina Gaudoin (2011)

Instead, led by Macolm McDowell's magnetic lead performance, it's become a fable, a reckless cautionary tale that seems far more relevant than many of the kitchen-sink dramas that came out of England in the previous decade. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

Indeed, both show how you can go indie and still pull off something other than kitchen-sink realism; one is a pretty slick-looking high school movie, the other a teen musical -- i.e. both are aiming for places in very commercial Hollywood niches where the sheen of production counts. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

(Well, it would depend on the book, I suppose - most indie filmmakers can't afford to stage spectacular space battles ... but they can do decent kitchen-sink drama very faithfully). ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

The obvious thing would have been to announce a full-scale kitchen-sink operation and strategic overhaul when he could still blame everything on his predecessor. ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)

Speaking of movies, I doubt whether The Girls is any more misogynist than those British “kitchen-sink” narratives of the 1950s and 1960s, still touted for their social consciousness, in which the working-class bride turns into a dragon overnight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bad things happen to damaged people and dogs in this sparse kitchen-sink drama – almost too many bad things for one film to take, between Mullan's volatile drinker, Colman's abused wife and their vicious social circles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is part of a wave of 17th-century plays which were kitchen-sink dramas avant la sink, which turned to middle-class life as opposed to aristos for their subjects and sought a new naturalism of manner. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sure, this wasn't a conventional kitchen-sink job by new Chairman Douglas Flint and Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver . ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)

Patrick and I endured another family dinner, though Trent was absent from this one—in town with the “kitchen-sink blonde” who managed the hotel. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)

Some of the sharp upwards revision in the deficit could be an attempt to kitchen-sink the bad news and apportion blame to the previous government. ❋ Richard Barley (2012)

Small and unpretentious, Welcome to the Rileys would be considered a kitchen-sink kind of personal drama, were there a kitchen sink involved. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas. ❋ John Anderson (2012)

The success of David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole," a jokey kitchen-sink drama about a family in crisis, was foreordained, right down to its winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

In this grim, post-second world war setting, familiar from kitchen-sink film dramas, Hamlet's the original angry young man, stuck between the old world and the new, and feeling betrayed and caught up in the political paranoia of the cold war. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The George Soros-funded Center for Political Accountability and social investing groups like Walden Asset Management are also pushing for kitchen-sink disclosures. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[I'm a] kitchen sink,[You don't know] what that means Because a kitchen sink [to you] Is not a kitchen sink to me, OK friend? ❋ A Kitchen Sink |-/ (2016)

[Pepe]: a kitchen sink is an [appliance]. [Rare Pepe]: a kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen sink to me ❋ Emmakitchensink (2015)

In his [dissertation], he really did use everything including [the kitchen] [sink]. ❋ Fearman (2007)

[I'm a] kitchen sink, [You don't know] what that means Because a kitchen sink [to you] Is not a kitchen sink to me, OK friend? ❋ Twenty øne Piløts Trash 4 Life (2016)

She had so [many] [toys] I suggested we [use] them all. She got Kitchen Sinked! ❋ Snot Rag (2018)

[Hillary's] kitchen sink [campaign] against Obama worked in Texas and Ohio. Fuck them, I hope they get [Return of the Jedi'd]. ❋ Point Zero (2008)

[hehe].. did u get [onto] that kitchen sink? ❋ Knobby Knob Knob (2005)

Tim " I wish I had brought my [hoodie] today, [damn it's] cold in here." Shawn "You mean like this one?" All" [KITCHEN SINK]!" ❋ NightSchool (2018)

"Damn, [Gina]. You must have [packed] everything but the kitchen sink in your [suitcase]. You are going to break my back when I carry this shit around for you." ❋ JTGaustin (2013)

Anthony(new to conlanging): Hey Bob, I made my own language for a world building project I'm doing! Bob(unknowing of what's about to come): Oh cool, can you show it to me? Anthony: It's a polysynthetic split-ergative strongly head initial Navajo-Basque-Mongolian inspired language with polypersonal agreement, 6 numbers singular, dual, trial, paucal, collective and plural, 69 grammatical cases, 13 different types of evidentiality such as visual, auditory, olfactory, [gustatory], tactile, reportative, [hearsay], [folktale], book-read, guessed, made-up, someone-told-me-but-I-don't-remember-who and known-lie, 19 different genders, 15 different tenses like present, just-before, an-hour-ago, earlier-today, yesterday, the-day-before-yesterday, a-week-ago, before that, a-moment-later, an-hour-later, later-today, tomorrow, the-day-after-tomorrow, a week later, after that, 12 different tones, a base-60 numeral system, [OVS] word order, 100 different clicks, a voiced linguolabial trill, only [voiceless] vowels, seven voiceless pharyngeal [trills], a CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCVCCCCCCCCCCCCC syllable structure, noun incorporation, twenty degrees of politeness, an abugida-logo-abjad [hybrid writing] system, and a word for every single [rgb] colour value. I made it to imitate how real languages work so that my fictional race of dog-headed creatures with [dragon wings] in my novel trilogy feels more realistic and alive. Bob: Bruh that is literally the worst kitchen sink conlang I have ever seen ❋ Wormhole512729 (2023)