Sentimentality and sappiness have always been as difficult to separate as conjoined twins. |
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It does a pretty fair job of giving you the man, warts and all, and generally avoids sappiness. |
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Christmas is the right mix of sappiness and sassiness to put even the grinchiest grump in the holiday spirit. |
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It's a little sappy at times, but then sometimes a little sappiness isn't so bad. |
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I will admit that during a few scenes Little Man Tate does start to tilt into overindulging sappiness. |
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Cornell's art occupies a special place between the spooky and the sappy, and it is the spookiness that gives the sappiness its power. |
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But there is something stern about him that forbids sappiness. |
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Indeed, there's something almost nauseating about the disparity between the relentless sappiness of the music and the horror of the events onstage. |
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The range of flavours, very pure, shows sappiness and class. |
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The dark Tchaikovskian start of the second movement highlighted the strings' maturity, whose emotional intensity steered clear of sappiness. |
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