soppiness

"But it's too hot," he said of the 85-degree soppiness.

For instance, it looks as though the soppiness that was rife among first readers a generation ago is waning.

But the back-and-forth routine works well as a tool to undercut excessive soppiness.

Soppiness about creatures is our national vice, as this week's tabloid scramble to save Phoenix the calf again proved.

Her father simply wasn't that kind of man, and Mrs. Meadows had never encouraged what she termed 'soppiness'.

But the film, directed by John Korty, maintains a tough tone that keeps the story safely away from the swamps of soppiness.

She was not, he was fully prepared to admit, an outstandingly intelligent girl, but intelligence was not really required, only beauty and a certain soppiness.

Marigoth was filled with love for the grandmother/elemental and for the first time in her life she did not feel embarrassed by the soppiness of the emotion.

Poole omits the gutter but, by setting the story in what is a faraway country for most of her readers, she establishes some artistic distance from the tale's potential soppiness.

Can we please stop using naive animal soppiness to oppose the the fact that the natural world is becoming ever more homogenised by us humans moving creatures and plants around willy nilly.

With the inspired introduction of a newly invented character, Wilbur Wilberforce, who is up front on his guile, deceit and treachery, the show finds a real antidote to potential soppiness.

He will gain deservedly admiring headlines by being the firm ally in the Persian Gulf (even British Labor, mindful of the political disaster that followed its soppiness on the Falklands, has turned hawkish).

He felt humiliated - apart from everything else, the soppiness of being a shop assistant in a family of miners brought out a terrible blush for his masculinity: absurd, you might think, but not so absurd if that was your world.

Mary reveals that her soppiness is just her bedside manner (or "fluffy bunny act" as she calls it) and that she's smarter and more cynical than Edmund initially suspected, and the two enter into a sexual relationship.

Under the headline "Tina-bopping," the newspaper quoted from an article she had written for her own magazine about the White House dinner for the British prime minister, accusing her of "sheer gush" and "babbling soppiness" toward both him and his host, the president.

When Balls was asked by Total Politics magazine about what moves him, his response was toe-curlingly banal, and his syrupy offerings indicated an alarming wellspring of soppiness - something associated with bloodthirsty dictators, who are notorious for mawkish sentimentality over pigeons or dogs or Norman Wisdom films.

She is without peer in making a hung-over stagger from bed to bathroom an exercise in regal poise, in using her slightly crooked smile to vitiate the soppiness of an overly sentimental sequence, in applying her Goldwyn Girl chorine know-how to a dash of song and dance."