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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

But before the storytelling even starts, the actors in this National Theater production set about making a safe space with a preamble whose clear language and kind tone are not the least bit soppy.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

“Dios mio! Don’t go all soppy on me, Stella! You know I can’t let a girl cry alone.”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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