soppy
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Duchamp’s affect of soppy detachment, his mask since Europe rejected him, came to define his New York work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But she’s also a marriage-minded mercenary who can pitch one potential client on soppy platitudes about till death do you part, and immediately pivot to assuring a bride that it’s just a business deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
"Not to get all soppy, but it's just something I never thought I would have", says Jo, who previously starred in the musical & Juliet and uses they/them pronouns.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
I exhaled through round 48 of soppy, snotty tears.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
And anyway, she had to act like she was cool about it, otherwise things would just get soppy.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
The supermarket cafe they work in is described with humorous insight and the device of another minor car crash is just right, but this plot is soppier and lacks the startling imagery of the first.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2013
He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soppiest dog, as usual, is the one that looks most fierce, a french mastiff.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2012
Whatever the case, it’s dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in “Hall Pass,” as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
Norman Blake – guitar and drum machine – is possibly the soppiest songwriter in Britain, having co-piloted Scottish guitar heroes Teenage Fanclub through 20 years of lovelorn rock.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
