The illegal execution of a guiltless man, whose death sentence the governor of the state had already overturned, however, is truly tragic and nowise sugarcoated in the show.
It's been whitewashed and dressed up and sugarcoated for so long that now it's just a tacky piece of junk on a souvenir stand, painted in red, white, and blue.
But whether I practice Yoga, dianetics, or write the lines on a sugarcoated pill and swallow it is my trade secret.
Under the smiling, sugarcoated tourist trap facade lies a complicated web of deceit, greed and murder.
Thankfully, Younger doesn't feel the need for a sugarcoated, fairy-tale ending but his ponderous, wintry coda is surplus to requirements.
The film serves up a sugarcoated confection that will make anyone with a taste for Nabokov gag.
