Where Greenberg used the German word kitsch to describe the antithesis of avant-garde culture, members of the Frankfurt School coined the term mass culture to indicate that this bogus culture is constantly being manufactured by a newly emerged Culture industry ( comprising commercial publishing houses, the movie industry, the record industry, the electronic media ).

Writer Edward Koelwel rejects the suggestion that kitsch derives from the English word sketch, noting how the sketch was not then in vogue, and saying that kitsch art pictures were well-executed, finished paintings rather than sketches.

In any case, whatever difficulty there is in defining boundaries between kitsch and fine art since the beginning of postmodernism, the word " kitsch " still remains in common use to label anything seen as being in poor taste.

Greenberg appropriated the German word ' kitsch ' to describe this low, concocted form of ' culture ', though its connotations have since been recast to a more affirmative acceptance of nostalgic materials of capitalist / communist culture.

Greenberg termed this ' kitsch ', a word that his essay popularized.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

For the country there is the term Usono, cognate with the English word Usonia later popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

) Bateson popularized the usage of the word genetics to describe the study of inheritance in his inaugural address to the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in London, England, in 1906.

The word " gonzo " is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style.

The usage of the word Hindu was popularized for Arabs and further west by the Arabic term al-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus and the Persian term Hindū referring to all Indians.

In England, the word was popularized in George Canning's paper, The Anti-Jacobin, which criticized the English Radicals, of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became a popular web destination.

In his book, Rhine popularized the word " parapsychology ," which psychologist Max Dessoir had coined over 40 years earlier, to describe the research conducted at Duke.

Rakim created flow !” He adds that while Rakim upgraded and popularized the focus on flow, “ he didn ’ t invent the word ”.

" Cow-orker " was a pre-existing word from Usenet that Adams popularized through his newsletter.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

They also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

The inventors also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

The Western religious philosophy called Theosophy has popularized the word Akasha as an adjective, through the use of the term " Akashic records " or " Akashic library ", referring to an ethereal compendium of all knowledge and history.

The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money ( 1955 ), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards ( see below ).

The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia ( 1965 ) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus!

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

Painterliness is a translation of the German term, a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin ( 1864 – 1945 ) in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art.

The word, used in a technical sense, was popularized in theosophical literature in the late 19th century when Madame Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, claimed that her teachers were adepts or Mahatmas who reside in Asia.

In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularized by the press.

As jellyfish are not even vertebrates, let alone true fish, the usual word jellyfish is considered by some to be a misnomer, and American public aquariums have popularized use of the terms jellies or sea jellies instead.

The song " Soul Makossa ", as well as pop songs that repeated its lyrics, internationally popularized the Duala word for "( I ) dance ", " makossa ".

In recent years an etymological back formation has been popularized that suggests it means " son of corruption " or " son of defilement " from another Gaelic word also pronounced " corb " which meant " something is not right in the council " and referring specifically to political treachery or dishonesty, but this " corb " postdates the usage of the names Cormac by several centuries, and thus could not be related to the name.

Saint-Ogan was one of the first French-speaking artists to fully utilize techniques popularized and formulaized in USA, such as word balloons.