Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation. |
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And since she answered my silly questions with patience and saccharine sweetness, she is in my good books. |
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The melody is tender but not unduly saccharine and is played here with more concern for easeful relaxation than poignancy. |
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Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid? |
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I was going to say they overdid the saccharine, but hey, I suspect it was aspartame. |
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It certainly doesn't need the distraction of echoing backing vocals and the saccharine strings that it has to fight against throughout. |
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In the center of this unweeded and naturally manicured garden, he stood, wearing that nauseatingly saccharine with arrogance grin. |
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The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee. |
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That thread is dropped, though, in favor of a number of weepy aspects that drive the ending to saccharine heights. |
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As saccharine as flat cola, it had an added taste of musky, dusky fruit and a hint of molasses. |
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And for those of us with long memories of mincing, saccharine productions, this revival is an eye opener. |
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Until recently we resorted to artificial sweeteners such as saccharine or aspartame, but never felt good about it. |
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With its orchestral arrangements, dragging tempos and saccharine delivery, it seems less like pop music than easy listening. |
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The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying. |
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It is very nice that they love each other and all, but their banter did get a bit saccharine at times. |
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I always find songs written about that quite saccharine and a little bit obvious. |
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Granted, they don't exhibit white-hot chemistry, but it's suitably sweet without being too saccharine. |
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Even during his well-documented years of excess, the saccharine sweetness of James Taylor's voice served him well. |
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Working every angle in a role that could easily have veered into saccharine excess, Portman is indomitable. |
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Somewhere in Time is so sweet that it becomes saccharine, so serious that it becomes self-parody, so earnest that it becomes artificial. |
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The film is filled with humorous dialogue that is often sweet without being saccharine. |
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Many people thought that the overly saccharine speech that Teri gave last episode was a stone-cold presage to her death. |
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One of many saccharine Army songs, this one is a letter home from a kid in boot camp. |
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There are also a series of intensely sweet, almost saccharine desserts, like peanut ice parfait and an extra-creamy flan made from vanilla beans. |
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In Japan, Korea, and China, it is used extensively in lieu of saccharine and aspartame. |
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The lyrical viewpoint of the song is bracing rather than saccharine or whiny. |
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And let's not forget the sappy sequences of false sentiments and saccharine solace. |
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But Manhattan is not a friendly place and she soon discovers that her cloying, saccharine compositions are about as welcome as toothache. |
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As Haden rages against the machine, I see how the boleros of Nocturne are an answer to the saccharine junk we are sold everyday. |
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The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule. |
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The film suggests that US rehabilitation involves lots of hugs, tears, group chants, and saccharine effusions of Panglossian optimism. |
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She smiled a sticky, icky, saccharine smile at us and pulled out the pencil from her ear. |
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Ford relates the sentiment, humour and more grandiose moral of the story very effectively, but manages always to keep things sweet and never saccharine. |
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The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline. |
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What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions. |
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Instead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better. |
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The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. |
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Speaking personally, I find Christmas specials in general too sweet and saccharine for my taste, and there is plenty of that gooey sentimentality. |
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There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied. |
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She has a saccharine smile on her face and her voice is sickly sweet. |
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All the tunes are by the trio's leader, and are characterised by a spare elegance and melodic accessibility which never tips over into the merely saccharine. |
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He kept glancing over at me and then smiling, his expression saccharine. |
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We could use more of those moments to counteract the constant saccharine spin. |
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Stevia is also more expensive than many commonly-used artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharine and sucralose. |
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Robin Richards on the other hand knows which side his bread is buttered and gave much cause for indigestion with his saccharine acceptance of the job. |
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Rosanna had always smelled of roses and saccharine peppermint. |
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The saving grace of Bliss is that Vanessa has not gone totally overboard on saccharine lyrics and syrupy pop ditties. |
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A saccharine smell hangs in the air. A monumental mammy sphinx hardly sounds nuanced. |
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No-one in the band I was in could speak a word of English, but we did these covers of Californian rock songs, totally saccharine stuff? |
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Simultaneously rough and lyrical, her paintings are jagged emotional landscapes in colors that range from earthy to bilious, saturated to saccharine. |
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Janice Beard is a sweet film that manages to avoid being too saccharine. |
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More likely it was a case of misplaced scorn for the saccharine melodies that overwhelmed the odes to left-coast burgs Santa Cruz, Big Sur and Hollywood. |
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The homemade desserts are far less saccharine than a lot of Indian sweets. |
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His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto. |
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In 1926 the artificial sweetener saccharine was popularized. |
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In the midst of an ongoing worldwide trek, Kapranos spoke to the Mirror about music festivals, Christmas lights and the saccharine splendour of arena singalongs. |
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It might strike one as too saccharine, were it not for the passionate sequences of the more severe middle section. |
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Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharine are more widely used. |
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This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine. |
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The Order provides only that table-top sweeteners with saccharine or cyclamate or a mixture of these products as their sole sweetening agents may be placed on the market, under certain labelling conditions. |
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Yeah, but I'm trying to decide what to do about it before all the saccharine gives me diabeetus or something. |
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A hit single was had with the saccharine We Don't Need Another Hero. |
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Plus, as a thousand TV movies show, translating a putatively inspiring real-life story into narrative film is tricky, treacly terrain, filled with saccharine and false sentiment. |
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Investments in the sectors indicated in the negative list of investment are as such not eligible and include certain chemical industries such as the cyclamate and saccharine industries. |
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Summertime In My Heart is the highlight, almost veering into saccharine territory until a masterful middle eight sends the chorus soaring. |
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For Garrett Stewart, the mediocre and saccharine hyperrealism or failed classicism of these portraits is functional. |
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A system comprising ceramides, peptides and olio saccharine provides optimum protection to the skin and restructures the barrier function of the stratum corneum sustainably. |
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It was an improbable love affair, so saccharine and brazenly put on show that it made snobbish Paris high society reach for the sick bag and embarrassed one of France's biggest media and arms conglomerates. |
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In order to provide breathing space between the disaster set pieces, Stone is provided with a saccharine, implausible backstory full of sledgehammer symbolism. |
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Gazing adoringly at each other in perfect surroundings, the couple send up the rather saccharine pictures found on Instagram and elsewhere by having a scruffy brown dog in their arms where the baby should be. |
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One gets the sense that the creatives here are driven by a conviction that children deserve more than the saccharine schlock served up in US digital cartoons. |
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On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. |
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