sappy
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Silly but not sappy, “Project Hail Mary” doesn’t gin up much suspense over whether anything bad will happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Even the most sappy, predictable Christmas movies have an emotional tether.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
The film rests in a dismal tone for so long that its gloominess becomes sappy, making the ending feel hackneyed and inevitable.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
He suggested the central pair's friendship "rings false", adding: "What should be piercing, impassioned moments are by turns frivolous and sappy."
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
This time it was buttered popcorn—movie night with her dad at his place in San Francisco, no stepmom, no stepbrothers, just Annabeth and her father curled up on the sofa watching sappy old romantic comedies.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
In the sappier one, Chávez’s face is inside a sun, like the baby in “Teletubbies,” hanging over a boy and girl in graduation gowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
But fear not – there's enough acknowledgement of corruption and malice to add a balancing menace to those sappier aspects.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
That meant we would go on to endure months of “Farewell Season” commercials, arguably sappier than those goodbye montages that aired after each contestant was eliminated.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
The book, exclusively excerpted in , reveals a sappier side of the late-night icon.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2013
Demby: The last few minutes of this show, including Jeff's phone call to his father, felt like something from a much sappier show.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013
And in the sappiest, cheesiest way, I believe this is how love stories work.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
The sappiest example of this father-son banter probably occurred in the fifth episode.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2020
We can still fight back, and the revolution starts here with our takedown of the eight sickest, sappiest, all-around worst holiday commercials of 2019.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 5, 2019
Grab some Kleenex and Ben and Jerry's, put on your sappiest playlist, and reminisce on all the celebrity couples who called it quits this year.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
He’d seen plenty of polar bear cubs from inside his parents’ tundra buggy, but never one this close-up, and suddenly he was cooing like the sappiest tourist.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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