The case against is that soppy makeover shows are not what the BBC is there for. |
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It was a foolish, late-night idea powered by a little too much alcohol, and a few soppy fool tendencies. |
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Preparing herself for a litany of soppy praise, Georgiana found her brother's narrative direct and endearingly touching. |
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His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy. |
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He's gone all soppy, crying because he misses Saskia and being a kind ear to listen to all Craig's miserable longings. |
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You could do soppy romantic things like that and people would just roll their eyes at you and leave you be. |
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I was like some girl in a movie theatre, watching this heart-breakingly sad moment in a soppy romantic movie and wanting to stop the moment. |
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You don't have to sit in the full lotus position with a soppy smile on your face. |
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But after they'd proved to each other they weren't soppy romantics, they admitted there was more to the story. |
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He was bold, outrageous, witty, shocking and sympathetic without being the least bit soppy or sentimental. |
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Without getting all soppy about it, we've been a great story for football, haven't we? |
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He wanted to tell her that, soppy and sickeningly sentimental as it sounded, he'd have missed her more than words could entirely express. |
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They are all quite alike, but there is one tiny one and everyone is quite soppy about it. |
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In my fingers, besides the wet muck of packing material was a soppy but readable copy of Tatz's book. |
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Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage angst, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy. |
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The best feeling in the world is to be wrapped in loving arms, to feel warm and melty and soppy and above all happy. |
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I picked some soppy romance over 28 Days Later, and was subjected to some blonde actress boaking right into the camera. |
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I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves. |
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But what we did have in common was a dislike of soppy, sloppy liberalism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes. |
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I know, it's soppy, slushy stuff when you really think about it, but how many people don't want that faery tale romance. |
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You love all things fluffy and lovely, and probably enjoy romantic novels and soppy poems. |
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What threatens to be merely a soppy love story among the wagons and petticoats becomes something more dramatic. |
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As a soppy old romantic I didn't mind who got the girl as long as Arthur got his cup of tea. |
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I thought it was going to be some soppy 1930's romantic comedy and while it wasn't exactly Kafka it was better than I was expecting. |
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Some story threads are underdeveloped, and Emily's soppy character is wisely ditched early on. |
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Being a soppy sort of soul, I'm overpowered by waves of nostalgia, each time I visit the Chelsea area. |
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I am not given to flights of fancy, soppy tales of love and romance and I was certainly not looking for love. |
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Regale everyone with your soppy songs, recite your loopy limericks, and maybe even draw a doodle or two! |
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Big soppy puppies with droopy eyes and long wet tongues come to mind. |
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Elbow's victory at the 2008 Mercury prize was a triumph for a kind of soppy manfulness. |
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He had a sound grasp of the political impact of what sometimes seemed merely soppy warm-heartedness. |
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I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart. |
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A canine comforter, a doggy pillow, or just something other than your socks for soppy dogs everywhere to carry around in their mouths. |
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For cleaning the BENZING M1 always use a light moist but never soppy towel and never use aggressive detergents. |
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It is clever without being slick, sentimental without being soppy. |
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It was Jo Gordon's trademark Dr Who scarves that first aroused the magpie eyes of the UK fashion pack three years ago, sounding the first death knell for the soppy pashmina. |
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The lifeboat fund can well do without such soppy sentiments. |
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Having started off writing formulaic commercial fiction, soppy stories for women's magazines, she now begins each novel knowing little more than how she wants it to feel. |
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And with that unfocused and slightly soppy sentiment, I'm off to bed. |
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I feel it is very insulting to be treated as a silly, soppy older woman. |
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Sugar Ray has fallen so deep that it now has a composition in the top sucks for a soppy song with clichéd lyrics and a very deceiving overall view. |
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Why is the coffee in the filter wet and soppy after extraction? |
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Steady on, what with the sobbing and the soppy background music, we could be on The X Factor. |
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India's professed love for the bovine might fool a few soppy westerners, but the truth is that it is nothing more than an outdated sentimental balderdash. |
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Harden your hearts, soppy socialists everywhere. |
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The dog turns out to be a soppy spaniel that he bought for his children. |
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They may think they are—or rather may enjoy reading soppy leaders in the Times telling them that theirs is an ancient nation in touch with its woodland past. |
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You may find them a bit soppy, but at the time they sold. |
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In fact she is a bit like the compositions of the band: pretty soppy. |
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Watch this film if you have a penchant for soppy tear-jerkers. |
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Big dogs, small dogs, stroppy dogs, soppy dogs, hairy dogs and bald dogs. |
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