Sentence examples for without being sappy from inspiring English sources

"I wanted it to be sweet and genuine but without being sappy".

Just as impressive is the show's tone: good-hearted without being sappy, tart yet never cynical.

Lace corset dresses looked richly detailed without being sappy; in fact, they looked like the sort of things a young woman would love to wear.

Kerry's gradual coming out as a lesbian was a highlight of the last few seasons, a slow-building transformation that was touching without being sappy, and far too idiosyncratic to serve as any kind of lesson.

"Dolores," one of Frank Sinatra's early hits, in 1941, with the Tommy Dorsey band, is sweet without being sappy thanks to Loesser's clever use of internal rhyme: "From a balcony above me, / She whispers 'Love me' / And throws a rose.

How to Show Affection (Without Being Sappy!).

Contemporary sophistication declares that peace is boring, moderation is blah, happy is sappy.

He added, "You couldn't lie or be sappy or ridiculous".

But the interrupted love story that frames the survival sequences is sappy and formulaic (Holden).

But she, and the relationship itself are sappy and wimpy and mightily upstaged by everything else.

I don't want to be sappy, but he's the nicest guy.