Sentence examples for sappy line from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday night Ann Romney delivered a speech that started with the sappy line, "Tonight I want to talk to you about love," and ended with a thud.

Although a lot of tender care clearly went into the making of "The Rising Place," this misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.

Ms. Moyes's novel boldly combines a sappy love story with the right-to-die debate.

During the brief ceremony, Ms. McLean, who said she didn't want her wedding to be "a drawn-out sappy thing," wore an A-line, vintage-inspired Rivini gown with lace trim, and an apricot-colored sash.

Their choreography may be lyrically romantic, its giddy lifts counterpointed by a gentle dialogue of gesture, yet these lovers are never sappy: Semyon Chudin is a tender but determined Lucentio and Olga Smirnova is a revelation; the sweet, singing lines of her dancing inflected with a sharp sprit of mischief that reminds us that, deep down, Bianka is very much Katharina's sister.

"Subliminally, there is a political texture to 'plots' in 'these plots of cottage-ground'," he writes, quoting from the poem, "and it's hard not to ghost 'corpses' in 'copses', as 'unripe' in the previous line carries the r to touch 'copses' .The language that Mr Paulin celebrates with most gusto fresh-peeled, sappy" and of a "present-moment directness"—has its roots in common speech.

Perhaps "The Office" has turned sappy in an effort to make a new bond with an audience accustomed to its combination of anti-punch lines and awkward pauses, which was a staple of its Carell years.

A line like, 'Why are there two milks open in the fridge?' You could tell it was from Gary, so well observed without being trite or sappy.

From another songwriter a song like "Be Mine" -- with lines like "All the dreams I held in my heart had suddenly come true" -- could easily turn sappy.

It sounds truly, awfully sappy.

Anodyne, sappy, superficial, derivative, fraudulently rebellious. . . .