sappiness

So where is all this going, this pursuit of sappiness?

Then he announced in slightly saltier language that he'd provided us with enough sappiness for the night.

His epic theater was designed in opposition to the sappiness of conventional drama.

The website particularly rejects "sappiness" and women considered excessively emotional.

While she isn’t half bad, it is unfortunate that the dance is mired in sappiness.

But there is an overwhelming sweetness to their sappiness that strikes to the very core of the Roman heart.

It requires a supreme level of sappiness to look longingly at a bank that isn’t yours next to a children’s store you never once entered.

Opening scene aside, though, the movie keeps them within the speed limit and on the well-established route to sappiness.

Meyer fans and detractors will have to see whether any sappiness slopped over to the big screen.

I guess that's true of sappiness, too.

The Bart's election subplot punctured any sappiness that otherwise might have occurred.

If the verses have a little love-letter sappiness, it doesn’t matter, as Armstrong delivers them with sweet confidence.

"He tells the story without going deep into it, and ends up falling into sappiness," it said.

Over at Goodreads, reviews were mostly positive for the book, although some slammed it for "sappiness."

It’s a thoroughly enjoyable story that tugs at the heart strings without much cloying sappiness.

Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy.

OK, enough with the sappiness.

Just watch out for sappiness, like “wow, Seth, that’s a great pick for a trip” complete with exclamation points or emoticons.

Why all this sappiness in the midst of N.B.A. anarchy?

He is depicted with a sappiness at odds with Bogosian's gift for the splenetic.

Ahead loomed a stack of planking, the air heavy with the sweet sappiness of cut wood.

The songs have been described as "fine portraits of American life without the sappiness or self-consciousness often attributed to the singer/songwriter genre."

Its lumpy pacing of a bright idea, missed opportunities and relentless sappiness make it a poor alternative to even a rained-out night game.

Fellow clergy members say Rabbi Winaker oozes sappiness like melting cheese.

They could ponder uncertainties and paint pictures and hint at complex emotions without literalism or sappiness.