The real winner on O'Donnell's report card approach, though, is Nicola Sturgeon, who exudes competence, scores strongly on shared values (as long as you are a Scot), and who, having shaken off the earlier pejorative "nippy sweetie" tag of which David Torrance writes in his new biography, is nowadays is making a serious effort to come over as likeable.
Fiercely private and avowed enemy of the press, his public persona is similarly fractured: garrulous hard-nut, working-class hero, fanciable chancer, nippy sweetie.
For the rabid restaurant fan like me, a trip to San Francisco is like being dropped into a sweetie shop with the key thrown away.
A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
The sweetie explodes in lightning bolts.
Well, sweetie, she would say, she just happened to be around at the right time.They knew each other a little.
He replied with the gallantry, flirtatiousness and sheer cheek for which he was famous: "I am always ready, sweetie".
There's a mini-mani calendar, with 24 pots of nail varnish for festive fingers, or there's the gluttons' special: Hotel Chocolat's Truffles for Two advent calendar, where there's no need to fight with your partner over who gets to guts down a luxury sweetie each day, you both can.
"Jen never said it was based on me," she booms in a north London foghorn, not at all the sweetie-darling whinny I was expecting.
We know Casper is not nearly such a hard nut as his cohorts: where gang leader Li'l Mago (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) has a face so heavily embellished with Gothic lettering and devil horns that you can barely see the flesh, Casper's facial tattoo is a single teardrop, making him look at once a tragic hero, a marked man, and a redeemable sweetie pie.
It took its decision after research showed shoppers preferred a sweetie-free check out and would use it where offered.
