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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.

But she’s also a marriage-minded mercenary who can pitch one potential client on soppy platitudes about till death do you part, and immediately pivot to assuring a bride that it’s just a business deal.

"Not to get all soppy, but it's just something I never thought I would have", says Jo, who previously starred in the musical & Juliet and uses they/them pronouns.

I wash my hands and my soppy sleeves, but they both remain discolored.

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.