sappy
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He suggested the central pair's friendship "rings false", adding: "What should be piercing, impassioned moments are by turns frivolous and sappy."
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
Just like in documentary short, history has proven the animated short award to favor crowd-pleasing films, and this delightfully immature French film about kissing is sappy enough to score the votes.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
For decades, the powers that be have told a very specific narrative about us: triumphalist and trite, self-congratulatory and sappy, while staying far away from our difficult parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
The girls call him “Sparky” because he kept suggesting those sappy, romantic films from the Nicholas Sparks books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Their story painted a sappy, romantic picture that I’d idolized.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In the sappier one, Chávez’s face is inside a sun, like the baby in “Teletubbies,” hanging over a boy and girl in graduation gowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
That meant we would go on to endure months of “Farewell Season” commercials, arguably sappier than those goodbye montages that aired after each contestant was eliminated.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
The book, exclusively excerpted in , reveals a sappier side of the late-night icon.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2013
Demby: The last few minutes of this show, including Jeff's phone call to his father, felt like something from a much sappier show.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013
These goodbyes are sappier than a Hallmark commercial but I fall for it every time.
From Salon ● May 13, 2010
And in the sappiest, cheesiest way, I believe this is how love stories work.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
The sappiest example of this father-son banter probably occurred in the fifth episode.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2020
We can still fight back, and the revolution starts here with our takedown of the eight sickest, sappiest, all-around worst holiday commercials of 2019.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 5, 2019
Grab some Kleenex and Ben and Jerry's, put on your sappiest playlist, and reminisce on all the celebrity couples who called it quits this year.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
He’d seen plenty of polar bear cubs from inside his parents’ tundra buggy, but never one this close-up, and suddenly he was cooing like the sappiest tourist.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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