Instead, with his 18th-century novelist's eye, he describes real-life details that would be pure kitsch if reproduced today.

I thought the subject matter was pure kitsch and ridiculously dated.

Sampler's Inn, a cafeteria-style restaurant with daily specials, is a must for pure kitsch.

There is very little notably ambitious contemporary work, not much good photography and a fair amount of what borders on pure kitsch.

Hundreds of other objects of every description, ranging from pure kitsch to high craft, grab at the viewer's eye.

Released in 1964, this is a work of pure Communist kitsch.

But some of the cutting-edge features they found so eye-catching at first have not aged well and today come off as pure kitsch.

It's also piece of pure sentimental kitsch, a guilty pleasure.

And then, against all expectation, passages of pure kitsch serve to thicken the pictorial plot.

They tend to have older merchandise that ranges from pure kitsch to pure gold.