soppy
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Duchamp’s affect of soppy detachment, his mask since Europe rejected him, came to define his New York work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But before the storytelling even starts, the actors in this National Theater production set about making a safe space with a preamble whose clear language and kind tone are not the least bit soppy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
"I spend most Monday evenings in tears and I'm not a particularly soppy person."
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022
The lyrics are soppy, but Jacques delivers the maternal sentiment with a thunderous passion worthy of Jennifer Holliday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
She was making a face that indicated how totally soppy she found this display.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
The supermarket cafe they work in is described with humorous insight and the device of another minor car crash is just right, but this plot is soppier and lacks the startling imagery of the first.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2013
He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soppiest dog, as usual, is the one that looks most fierce, a french mastiff.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2012
Whatever the case, it’s dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in “Hall Pass,” as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
Norman Blake – guitar and drum machine – is possibly the soppiest songwriter in Britain, having co-piloted Scottish guitar heroes Teenage Fanclub through 20 years of lovelorn rock.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
