But I soon found much of it as obnoxiously overeager as a slobbering pooch.
To rescue the family fortunes, 17-year-old Mary was married off, a few years later, to Alexander Pendarves, a slobbering old drunkard.
Every time I turned a corner I collided with a slobbering cow, or a gold-wrapped corpse on a stretcher.
It's also got room for a fun set piece with a slobbering giant, a cliff and a waterfall.
The natural talent of the raspberry plant, apparently, is to propagate like a slobbering alien on Sigourney Weaver's space station.
Here, with a terrific cast — including an eye-popping Asia Argento memorably teamed up with a slobbering Rottweiler — he has delivered a touching and tender valentine to a lost New York, a city that now exists only as a hallucination.
Mr. Grant, on the other hand, goes in the opposite direction, starting out bad as a racist missionary in the 19th-century story and winding up worse as a slobbering cannibal in the postapocalyptic one.
The hero of "Zombieland", a nerdish teen, makes the mistake of giving the neighbourhood prom queen shelter for the night, only to see her awake as a slobbering monster.
Derrick, however, is also the prime locus of the film's insouciant hypocrisy, since it wants to paint him as a slobbering, exploitative cretin while inviting the audience to savor the fruits of that cretinism.
HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu is a slobbering, tentacled horror lurking on an island of impossible stone structures spat up from the bowels of the Pacific.
