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kitchen-sink

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kitchen-sink (British & Australian)
a kitchen-sink play, film, or style of painting is one which shows ordinary people's lives. Kitchen-sink drama came into fashion in the 1950s. (always before noun) In his latest work, he is moving away from kitchen-sink realism towards a more experimental style of painting.

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A textbook example of the emperor's new clothes, this dour Montreal band's kitchen-sink aesthetic might be charming -- if there were a few extraordinary songs to go along with the string-driven anarchy.
With proud, hardcore rhymes that assial all sorts of old-world typecasting ("I Am") and grungy, jazz-influenced, kitchen-sink production, there's nothing subtle about this fierce, rising Bay Area "homo-hop" quartet of 25 Percenter, Point Five Fag, JB Rap and Mr.
And the tone shifts back and forth from Mike Leigh-inspired kitchen-sink drama to upper-crust BBC soap opera.
 
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