Sentence examples for cloying from inspiring English sources

It is a celebratory, emotional film without cloying sentiment, which is no small achievement.

The language is cloying—"a flavour experience no other ordinary whisky can match"—but seems to work.In this section The Walmart of the web Flight to the future The glossy posse Big business Sipping from the fire hose Keep on walking Now you own it, now you don't The trouble with superheroes ReprintsAs Africans grow richer, they drink more Scotch.

Narrative tension is maintained, secrets are kept, but never at the cost of being befuddling.Yet the novel is marred by a cloying quality, and the children are often too precious.

But in amongst the cloying fluff there were some good stories.

Her cultivation of Jesse Helms, the rock-ribbed Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (including giving him a T-shirt that reads, "Someone at the State Department Loves Me"), is pretty cloying.

Unlike Mr Bush, who looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and got "a sense of his soul", Mr Obama was not gulled into giving Russian leaders cloying praise.

If heroes marched into the jaws of death, it was because of "sacred values, absolute values, and we know that one of those values is the defence of the homeland".It's both true, and worth saying, that in the hell of war, religious rhetoric about altruism and self-sacrifice, which can sound cloying in peacetime, starts to ring true.

The fact that groups accept a regime or "truce" imposed by an imperial power does not mean they will refrain from competing once they get a chance.To ex-subjects of the Soviet imperium, talk of officially encouraged admiration for "fraternal" nations, laced with displays of embroidery, cuisine and folk-dancing, sounds cloying.

They also permit a degree of whimsy that may seem cloying in a restaurant.

It was not until Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), however, that McCarey directed a film bearing many of his trademarks: a comic sense that blended reality and farce, a glorification of the American character concurrent with a condemnation of American materialism and naïveté, a reflection of McCarey's own Roman Catholic values, and a warm sentimentality that usually transcended cloying sweetness.

And it's what accounts for the faintly cloying feeling you get when you watch a film that has been heavily swathed in CGI, so that you can't tell where the real things stop and the inventions begin.