It just leaves you with an overwhelming sense of ickiness.

Hollywood has never really known where honest sentiment leaves off and the true ickiness begins.

My golden-shirt had called me "little slave" and other ickiness of the same sort, all despite the fact that the names didn't fit.

And these teen-age television stories keep getting interrupted by scenes of supernatural mayhem and occult ickiness.

- not that I ever touched her as a child," effuses the narrator in perhaps the standout moment of lyrical ickiness.

In a fever of excitement they then went on to discover other emotions, Like 'irritability', 'depression', 'reluctance', 'ickiness' and so on.

Three decades ago Ms. Andrews may have been mocked as embodying a reactionary ickiness, but no one accused her of being thin-blooded.

She was sorry for that, really she was, but a wave of ickiness had gone from throat to tailbone just then, and it saidleave .

T.I. is convinced of his own excellence but manages to avoid the pitfalls of his peers: paranoia, rage, general ickiness.

A chatty tour guide or a good guide book is vital - the Cadogan series is particularly strong on grotesque tales and arcane ickiness.

For Mr. Barney's pictures are often really brilliant, so brilliant as to be disorienting; of course, the pervasive ickiness, to use the technical term, helps in the disorientation process.

Amazingly, coming to this conclusion didn't make Tim Russert, et al. any ickier for me; apparently they had reached some sort of ickiness saturation point so long ago that it didn't matter.

Hilly is a terrifically hissable villain, and Minny eventually bests her with a revenge plot that's almost Rabelaisian in its ickiness and far too much fun to give away here.

Katherine Monk of The Ottawa Citizen also addressed the subject matter, saying that the film is "a little bizarre- not to mention disconcerting... the film rides the edge of ickiness."

He adds that they are "not blind to the possible ickiness of how Barney went about getting Robin to say yes" but that it shows Barney's character "in a nutshell: loveable amorality."

GRODY TO THE MAX In a column about ickiness, I wrote that yuck "has resisted replacement by gross and its derivative grody."

"Clueless" transports the 19th-century novel "Emma" to a Beverly Hills high school, with cell phones replacing card games, malls replacing villages, and "an overwhelming sense of ickiness" replacing "a continual state of inelegance."

Lacking a live Scott Fitzgerald, one clings to his voice, cynical about an era previous to the one about which we are cynical, an era whose ickiness is far enough away to seem stylish to most of us.

The program hits a peak of ickiness in a medley that includes fragments of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Black and White," "United We Stand" and "Everything Is Beautiful."

Not only must Frank come to terms with the death of his mother, the cruelty of the world and the ickiness of his own awakening sexuality, he must also convince us that his voice and story are his own.

For some misbehaving celebrities, "giving back" means offering artistic successes to stamp out the bad press: a prime example of this is Woody Allen, who continued to produce excellent films despite his formerly mega-disturbing relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, making us forget about all that ickiness, sort of.

It's like one of those souvenir 1950's pens that tilt upside down to strip an innocent cheesecake model to her pornographic double, and Harrison's witty, lucid, poetic sentences do carry us quite a long way through passages rife with the kind of ickiness bound to alienate some readers and rivet others.

The filmmaking team behind "Shrek" takes the bare bones of William Stieg's children's book about an ogre who thinks filthiness is next to godliness and glories in bad manners and ickiness and uses that as a taking-off point for a new animated film that rejoices in its own brand of perversity.