Tackily

I still think it funny in "All About Eve" that Celeste Holm and her successful playwright husband Lloyd are portrayed as so tackily nouveau riche, to me at least - her in furs, their country house and fancy car - but to the film, they are meant to be conventional, successful, heterosexual, non-theatre freaks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After the jump, see what he had specially (and tackily) made for her … ❋ Unknown (2010)

A somewhat unnecessary prolog and epilog has now been tacked on, but not tackily, smoothly enough that it didn't ruin the story. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reality TV altered our sense of "normal," offering glimpses of a world in which spending a quarter of a million dollars on a teenager's birthday party (My Super Sweet Sixteen) or multiple millions on a tackily outfitted McMansion (Cribs, The Fabulous Life) is not only perfectly acceptable but expected. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are out for money and campaign for it more tackily than I every imagined. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The camera's democratic, indiscriminate eye seconds the impertinence of the pretenders in their tackily dazzling regalia: the guest of honour disappears, outnumbered and effaced by the crowd. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the press needs an excuse to get tough on Obama, sort of tackily taking up precious time on a conference call should count .... ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite the advantages of incumbency, which are sometimes wielded rather tackily, as Friday, when Bloomberg managed to work into a statement about the tragic death of a young sanitation worker a plug for his environmental policies: "Sanitation Worker Timmins helped make New York City's streets the cleanest they've been in decades, and while collecting recyclables, he was helping us achieve our goal of creating a greener and cleaner City." ❋ Unknown (2009)

West, as TV and YouTube viewers know, jumped the stage near the close of Sunday night's MTV Music Video Awards, interrupted Taylor Swift in the middle of her acceptance speech for Best Female Video, and tackily proclaimed that a stunned Beyonce's video was more deserving. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyone who would start a Christian prayer in public for the purpose of needling, knowing that others there who do not share their beliefs or faith and would find such offensive, is acting tackily too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The tackily named "Centre" is yet another massive, two-block long complex proposed in the Valley. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poignant because her faith may well be genuine; repellent because its Methodist genuineness demands that she not profess it so tackily. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If they start to rehash and pick apart every sound bite that the media has so tackily focused on this week I for one will quickly tune out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, having said that, you can do it with style or you can do it tackily. ❋ Daniel Radosh (2008)

But it's also true that in moving unilaterally, and claiming at the same time he was just trying to make things less tackily political, he made things more political, or rather more partisan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So I think that Trump acted tackily -- that's a shock! ❋ Unknown (2008)

But with each passing day after the opening, it became clearer that Gober's difficult sculptural narrative (about being gay) was practically the only art in a show gone tackily showbiz. 9. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And if they ask me the question, can they harden some of the facilities they have given their locations, there are things that can be done tackily. ❋ Unknown (2005)