more cloying

“This looks so good,” the 33-year-old coos, flashing a grin indiscernible from her more cloying online characters.

Just make sure to choose ones without added sugar or risk a more cloying flavor.

References to Bruce Springsteen, evocative as they are, have been batted around pretty hard in recent years, and this one’s more cloying than most.

Hulse’s eagerness to do that excavation alleviates some of the more cloying elements of the story: Asa’s tested faith, the noisily symbolic names of the mines, sources of original sin and punishment.

Awards ceremony judges sure do love Mrs Maisel’s moxie, and even though the second season was more cloying and whimsical than the first, it seems to have escaped the more harsh exclusion of, say, The Handmaid’s Tale.