Sentence examples for treacly sentimental from inspiring English sources
When Caesar, who wants no part of the usual treacly, sentimental journey, tries fending off Reiner, and then a phalanx of ushers, with his overcoat, then attempts to flee the theatre, he is acting on his own.
In a review by Patrick Lee in Science Fiction Weekly based on a viewing of this episode alone, Futurama was deemed not as funny as The Simpsons, particularly as "the satire is leavened with treacly sentimental bits about free will and loneliness".
Maybe they hate its treacly sentiments and solecistic grammar.
But though still treacly, still exasperatingly sentimental and stereotypical, this follow-up to the first Exotic Marigold Hotel turns out to be rather better.
"War Dances," the title story — a collage of scenes juxtaposing the narrator's father's decline with the narrator's own temporary loss of hearing — is all of these things: funny, sardonic, and sentimental (but not at all treacly).
There was nothing sentimental (in the sense of treacly, unearned emotion) about Wilder's discomfortingly open-hearted performances.
Trite and treacly, you snort?
That is a little treacly for us.
