Citations:kitchen-sinky

Adjective: "attempting to include too wide a variety of things, typically with a result that is less functional than intended"

 * 2007 — John Quijada, "Re: Aesthetics", Conlang Mailing list archives, 23 October 2007:
 * It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together.
 * 2011 — Nancy Deville, Healthy, Sexy, Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You, Greenleaf Book Group (2011), ISBN 9781608322701, unnumbered page:
 * I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky.
 * 2011 — Erin McKean, "DIY dictionary", Boston Globe, 20 March 2011:
 * "How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer;
 * "How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer;

Adjective: "of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism"

 * 2001 — Susannah Clapp, "Mother knows best", The Guardian, 4 February 2001:
 * Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.
 * 2004 — Sean Nelson, "On Screen: Take These Broken Wings…", The Stranger, 1 April -7 April 2004 issue:
 * It's difficult to say whether this kitchen sinky melodrama is inherently political because it was made in Israel by an Israeli filmmaker and is about a contemporary Israeli family.
 * 2007 — Stephanie Bunbury, "Tide and emotions", The Age, 29 April 2007:
 * "Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."
 * 2007 — Lucy V, "S/D: A Little Less Description, A Little More Action Please", Write Here, Write Now (blog), 17 October 2007:
 * Action does not necessarily mean oodles of sex and violence (though that's always good as far as I'm concerned, wahey); even the most kitchen-sinkiest drama has action in.
 * 2008 — Joe Riley, "The word on the street is all good", Liverpool Echo, 25 July 2008:
 * "With the supremacy of television and film, those who would have started with theatre, need to develop that muscle. They often need to think in more theatrical language which is less kitchen-sinky."
 * 2009 — Allan M. Jalon, "Director Greg Mosher's view from a new 'Bridge' is clear", Los Angeles Times, 27 December 2009:
 * Lighting cues for John Lee Beatty's set of dark red apartment buildings -- "impressionistic yet realistic, not kitchen-sinky," the director says of his friend's work -- are put through their early paces.
 * 2011 — Gina Picallo, "Helen Mirren interview", The Telegraph, 7 February 2011:
 * "He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough.