Not so, he said, at his most saccharine.
I didn't read the stories because no child could — they are stomach-churningly, almost incomprehensibly saccharine.
The San Francisco Chronicle, the city's major daily, called the show "didactic, disjointed, oddly miscast, confusingly designed and floundering," while calling the score, by (from left, at right) Elton John and Bernie Taupin, "almost unrelentingly saccharine".
Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd is a welcome corrective to Hollywood's recent spate of song-and-dance movies from biopics to film-to-Broadway-to-film remakes, darker than eyeliner, bloodier than a Slayer concert, and with almost no saccharine in sight.
"It's meant to feel almost in a saccharine way, comforting, everything's great.
His beats are so rolled-out, you start reflexively chewing the inside of your mouth when he comes on, and his sing-raps are so saccharine, you almost forget he's talking about making girls eat his poop.
It's evokes the side of Christmas that is so jovial it almost becomes terrifying, so saccharine it becomes sinister.
The Bournemouth Pavilion positively shimmered in the saccharine glow of almost 3,000 vividly iced cakelettes and heaved with cupcake groupies.
The weddings of Afghanistan's nouveaux riche — the most lucrative venue for musicians — feature almost exclusively Afghan pop music, a saccharine derivation of Indian and Iranian pop, with heavy electronic effects distorting the singer's voice, and the traditional instruments synthesized on a keyboard.
Jepsen's sudden audience badly wanted, and then almost as quickly felt repelled by, that saccharine hope, that teen-age intoxication, her sweetly desperate plea just to be seen.
In that time she's had two major hits: "The Climb," a soaring, inspirational pop-country ballad from the soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie," and "Party in the U.S.A.," a saccharine, chirpy confection that's almost the exact opposite (and, notably, does not appear on this album, or any other).
