By focusing compulsively on craft, GFriend stumbles into the saccharine.
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Craving a little saccharine yellow fluid in your morning coffee?
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Aspartame, saccharine, and other artificial sweeteners aren't linked to cancer.
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Watch the measure of saccharine; add several teaspoons of salt.
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Nasty isn't saccharine at all; it's music for mosh pits.
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His calligraphic drawings feature saccharine motifs like angels, stars, and butterflies.
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Under the saccharine surface, though, the show is riddled with mystery.
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Sweet Dreams treads a fine line between saccharine and slightly menacing.
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While The West Wing trafficked in saccharine civics lessons, with its
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In their place, Trump lavished saccharine praise on dictators and strongmen.
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The Lychee Sakura Float, on the other hand, was disgustingly saccharine.
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Tan Dun's "Buddha Passion" wavered between visceral sensation and saccharine kitsch.
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An insidiously saccharine ballad by the smooth-jazz saxophonist Najee came on.
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Yet somehow, WIRED's optimism didn't come across as saccharine, but as swaggering.
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Dragon Stout pours out, looking like cola—much fizzier, fruitier, more saccharine.
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They're saccharine sweet, but it's still easy to want a second bite.
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Everything about the royal family, especially now, is so saccharine and fake.
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Does it feel gross and a bit saccharine and kind of forced?
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We drank the same budget vodka (Glen's), topped off with saccharine mixers.
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At best, such stories come across as saccharine odes to our shared humanity.
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"This is gonna really probably be a little saccharine for you," Fraser said.
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It is innumerate, blind to statistics and to the costs of saccharine indulgence.
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Saccharine avatar experiences can color in the broad outlines of our IRL relationships.
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The problem is that being lonely is considered amateurish and saccharine in society.
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Sure, even with such amazing animation work, the narrative is a bit saccharine.
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These saccharine testimonials proved a gold mine for jaded, Gen X-centric comedians.
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At its high points, the show is beautifully uplifting, never saccharine or melodramatic.
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Come 2014, Rae Sremmurd, the sweet-voiced brother duo refined saccharine sing-rapping.
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This movie's saccharine tone and overdone premise shouldn't work, and yet they do.
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Of course, this is not to say that anything saccharine overwhelms its delicious bitterness.
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When the Baldwin-Bieber marriage isn't Hallmark card-level saccharine, it is ceaselessly horny.
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If saccharine-sweet scents are your thing, this might be right up your alley.
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But his association with saccharine Disney vibes extends only as far as his music.
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A reader wonders what ugly crimes these saccharine distractions are trying to cover up.
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Their live shows, album covers, and press materials are drenched in vibrant, saccharine color.
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The crowd was singing along to the saccharine sounds of Indonesian jazz band Mocca.
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Also qualifying under that umbrella is a medley of carols that avoids turning saccharine.
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Her bravado is on the verge of barreling into the thickets of saccharine sentimentality.
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The Milk Stand is saccharine, with adorable decorations featuring unicorns, bunnies and baby bottles.
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Because of that, Bob Marley's last albums contained powerful messages over his most saccharine music.
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But what if you're a little sick of all those saccharine pastels and bold hues?
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Other material, like "Parasite," however, skips the saccharine altogether, going for something decidedly more brutal.
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Though this is, ultimately, an uplifting tale, its triumphs are hard-won, and never saccharine.
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Somehow, in his hands, they never sound saccharine; they hit you right in the gut.
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Uprooting years of gender inequity in tech requires more than saccharine speeches and corporate platitudes.
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Is it a pleasantly saccharine balm at a time when we could all use it?
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But then Crenshaw's moment on Weekend Update gets weirdly saccharine, with a plea for bipartisanship.
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His manners and demeanor have always been top tier but has never come across saccharine.
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This all may sound a bit saccharine, but the research in Science suggests it works.
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The stories they tell (all based on real life) stop just shy of being saccharine.
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The writers couched all the potentially saccharine or sanctimonious dialogue in their believably earnest characters.
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Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl" is so saccharine it hurts my teeth to listen to it.
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Such terms look less saccharine than those doled out by Athens almost four years ago.
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There's a duality, an embrace of the saccharine and the morbid, that doesn't quite square.
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Infosec branding is similar to skincare products—unregulated claims offered in a saccharine spoonful of fluff.
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Not unlike The Florida Project, Lady Bird has an ending that is both saccharine and unsettling.
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It's spot-on, with doofy references to saccharine pop culture like Brian's Song and Monsters Inc.
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Enter A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, the saccharine holiday treat you didn't know you needed.
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But, is it overkill to raise eyebrows at a saccharine, smiling watermelon on a toddler's romper?
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Album opener "…Ready For It?" sets the tone for Reputation: dark, dramatic, sexy — and occasionally saccharine.
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Spontaneous saccharine songs mixed with quattro formaggio levels of cheesiness just isn't the one for me.
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It's nothing special, but its saccharine sweetness gives it all the makings of a decent hit.
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Ravyn's saccharine vocals and raw songwriting have a way of making rejection sound like a revelation.
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His hits for the Commodores could be sentimental, even saccharine, but were also sneakily genre-defying.
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On "MBTD (Mental Breakdown)", a saccharine mainstream EDM-inspired backtrack blares as CL raps in Korean.
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It was all a bit too saccharine, like the maraschino cherry on top of a sundae.
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It is a real show about the preposterously saccharine courtships even fake movies are ashamed of.
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Word of the Day : overly sweet _________ The word saccharine has appeared in 35 articles on nytimes.
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But beyond the sometimes saccharine tributes, the thorny challenges of religious harmony in Egypt were felt.
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J.P. More parodic, saccharine and deeply effective dance music from Marshmello, the fantasy-character producer-D.
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My recollections of her are glimpses of costume jewelry and the saccharine, milky coffee she drank.
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In Persona, Atlus has found a way to make even the most saccharine ideas an adventure.
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Riverdale doesn't resemble the Archie comics either in their overly saccharine beginnings or current genre heavy revamp.
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Entrenched in a century-old culture of feminine perfection, her work is saccharine and anything but nostalgic.
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To some people living outside the community, there was something so delightfully saccharine about these liberation stories.
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Soon, Rachel is also obsessed with Ashley Too, an anthropomorphized smart speaker based on Ashley's saccharine personality.
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The saccharine hair and lips were finished off with a hard edge: ultra-black, graphic winged eyeliner.
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But there is a new brand on the shelves of Sephora that totally obliterates my saccharine scale.
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These moments of conflict may be embellished, but they're necessary to break up the occasionally saccharine chumminess.
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I want it [the show] to be a little bit more responsible without being saccharine about it.
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He has a great ear for music, but he's stuck producing saccharine pop rock to stay afloat.
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Those who don't take conjugal love seriously may find it saccharine or some cornball shit like that.
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SMAP's most famous saccharine single, "The Only Flower in the World," is regularly taught in Japan's schools.
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Gradually, though, "Christopher Robin" settles in, exhibiting a genuine sweetness without becoming saccharine -- again, no small feat.
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Is this how we're going to inaugurate the first Queen of Greater Saccharine And All Her Provinces?
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Maybe neither of them could escape the need to give their audience that saccharine sweetness they craved.
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It's all mildly saccharine, cooked simply with a bit of ginger, and maybe a sprig of scallion.
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It's so saccharine that its sincerity dates it more than the fact that it's a silent film.
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But I think that we managed it without being too maudlin or saccharine or reductive or simplistic.
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Honey isn't the saccharine, insincere pop of the 90s or the flashiness of the Aughts and 2010s.
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The books keep any possibility of saccharine sentimentality in check by offering up healthy doses of melancholy, too.
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" It was saccharine, it was cheesy, it was the antithesis of the grit and grain of "Ordinary People.
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Then finish your phone call as slowly as possible, put the hand down, turn to them, saccharine smile.
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Dress down feminine silk slips and florals, which can sometimes feel too saccharine when paired with dainty heels.
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The drink is minimally sweet—just perfect for those who want a summer drink that isn't overly saccharine.
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Despite its saccharine strings and easy melody, "Everyday Housewife" was a tortured exploration of aging, nostalgia, and gender.
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The presence of these saccharine crystals, syrups and powders in every crevice of the American diet adds up.
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" And then Michael swoops in with the saccharine strings: "All the lost children, I want to save them.
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It's the type of song where if you don't produce it correctly it can sound saccharine, you know?
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It would be easy for the performance to turn saccharine there, but Mr. Hiller deftly doesn't let it.
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The book's intended message has largely been lost under the coating of saccharine that Hollywood spread over it.
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She imagines the anodyne, saccharine lyrics give O'Rourke the same mental escape from the workaday world of politics.
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However funny and (presumably) ironic, the insurgency gained traction as Renoir's soft-focus, saccharine Impressionism came under fire.
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In previous live broadcasts, Ms. Yang could often be seen dancing and singing along to saccharine pop songs.
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Plus, you can grab up to an entire gallon if you're wanting to drink the saccharine stuff all night.
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How do you begin to sift through all of this celebration, saccharine, and love when you least expect it?
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The episode "Nosedive" warns that the drive for social media likes will create a society of enforced saccharine smarm.
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It's clear David Rose (Daniel Levy) would rather die than bear the embarrassing saccharine gesture he's about to witness.
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They're after something saccharine — which is not a quality the hard-bitten cynics of my motherland are known for.
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Ketchup pretty much annihilates any other flavor in its path, with the sugar bathing everything in a saccharine haze.
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Halloween movies and TV shows for kids this age need to follow a similar mix of saccharine and savory.
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With it's 90s Euro-club beats, infectious synth and saccharine sweet vocals, "Never Thought" is a characteristically Danny banger.
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Depicting mostly kissing couples who evoke carnivorous insects, they might be parodies of the saccharine images of Marc Chagall.
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His shoes reflect that same outlook, with their saccharine floral motifs, Barbie's dream-house colors, and pop-culture references.
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Though it contains ingredients like bitter oranges and rhubarb, the bottle skews saccharine at best, with a syruplike finish.
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The emir's image adorns billboards draped off skyscrapers, and he is lionized in saccharine songs hailing his steely leadership.
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It's evokes the side of Christmas that is so jovial it almost becomes terrifying, so saccharine it becomes sinister.
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Although the Mass seemed extremely well made and was rapturously received, it struck me as somewhat bland and saccharine.
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His new venture seemed to be an unholy mix of the former's lawless arrogance and the latter's saccharine branding.
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But there is enough tension hinting at the cataclysm to come to prohibit this from tipping into saccharine territory.
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" She felt Crawford "carried this saccharine politeness to such an exaggeration of courtesy that it was disgusting and irritating.
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She's certainly sinister, with her saccharine voice and the clinging way that she interacts with Royce during their visits.
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Take it from us: the white and red gummies are bright and fruity without being overly saccharine — a delightful experience.
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The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there.
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NYC-based candy outlet LIQ NYC encases nearly everything under the sun—including the solar system itself—inside saccharine lollipops.
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To add heft, I doubled the amount of sweet potatoes — despite being canned in syrup, they don't taste overly saccharine.
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In less sophisticated hands, Duncan's yearning, frolicking, diaphanous steps can feel contrived or saccharine, but Ms. Mearns makes them thrilling.
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Lurking in the shadows of our culture's towering prosperity gospels, doom offers a suffocating, dead-end corrective to saccharine rushes.
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This is a valid and intriguing notion, yet the piece itself is a soppy and saccharine work of pink pastels.
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He often uses snippets of material — ad jingles, saccharine pop productions, throwaway dialogue — that he can't entirely dismiss as kitsch.
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Both supply a thoughtful counternarrative to the teas, ballets and craft sessions unspooling in somewhat saccharine perpetuity at the Plaza.
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We try to do it in a way that's entertaining and doesn't feel saccharine or like we're on a pulpit.
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But lip gloss has come leaps and bounds since our days rolling saccharine-sweet goop over our lips after homeroom.
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Rogers's buoyant hope and indomitable spirit don't come off as cheesy or saccharine, however, but genuine, admired, and almost wistful.
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To be fair, the movie eventually finds its way to a nice if inevitably saccharine message about the importance of family.
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In the 20th century, the saccharine admiration for childhood fused with late-Victorian psychology to place a new emphasis on play.
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Sonically, it's all about the spaciousness, that unapologetically saccharine lead, and the timbre of popular 80s digital synthesizers and MIDI instruments.
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This trailer makes The Mercy seem a little saccharine and overly heartwarming, but the story behind this film is pretty fascinating.
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There are people who are genuinely sweet, and then there are people who are so overly saccharine that it feels insincere.
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The odds of John Cusack showing up at your door are low, so we suggest picking up this saccharine scent instead.
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But we were removed from the New Sincerity championed by David Foster Wallace, and even further removed from his saccharine offspring.
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If a first-year MFA student wrote 52 as a fictional character, his class would probably call it amateurish and saccharine.
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Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and saccharine are used to add calorie-free flavor to things like diet soda and protein shakes.
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The results can sometimes veer toward the sentimental, even the saccharine, but they always have wide-ranging warmth and inimitable gusto.
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I know this, because I have a collection of nauseatingly saccharine fluffy padlocked journals that won't ever let me forget it.
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With saccharine swathes and trippy washes, Hahn paints what look like teen ghouls smoking a bowl or moping on a bed.
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But were Wiley's tests of additives like saccharine and sodium benzoate — whose health effects still remain controversial — sound science or pseudoscience?
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Although the template possesses the trappings of what might be called a feel-good film, there's happily nothing saccharine about it.
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There can be a saccharine sweetness to K-pop, and bubble gum is an aesthetic the genre doesn't shy away from.
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You kind of see it on TV but in real-time, their courtship and relationship was really cute and super saccharine.
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His approach was a rejection of the idealized, saccharine portrait of the country prevalent in films and magazines at the time.
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If there's one channel to blame (or thank) for much of the mushy, saccharine, and downright sentimental Christmas movies, it's Hallmark.
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Colors tend toward pastels that have been run through the washing machine 50 times — faded, but still retaining that saccharine glow.
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Unlike most idol groups—manufactured bands with a saccharine sound and a hyper-cutesy aesthetic—BiS were supposed to seem edgy.
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There are other curious musical choices, as well — the jubilation and saccharine taste of the hook of "NASA" recalls K-pop.
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" Baths' Will Wiesenfeld told Broadly he wanted to create a ditty that was "totally saccharine, but in a widely digestible way.
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The materials somehow interpose a sense of S&M culture onto what would otherwise be a more straightforward and saccharine tableau.
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But while saccharine, vaguely Christmas-themed, made-for-TV movies aren't new, the sudden, and profitable, widespread popularity of them is.
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Seated on the banquette, I watch as he takes up the mic and sings, each song more saccharine than the one before.
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It smelled of sweet almond pastries (cherry bakewells, specifically) but without the note of alcohol that sometimes catches through the saccharine scent.
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And C.J.'s relationship with her brother is touching without being saccharine, as they frustrate and support each other in equal measure.
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Her smile is saccharine, but she's her own PR machine, trying to recover from being associated with the robbery of Crispus Attucks.
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But by no means is the piece saccharine; rather Rhoden gives us a work that is aware of its own conceptual obstacles.
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Some of the lyrics are a bit saccharine and willfully pretentious but I think that disappeared reasonably quickly, although many would disagree.
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But when the group arrived and said table did not, the show still went on—catapulting internet parodies of their saccharine sound.
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With the saccharine title "Report to Fannie Mae Regarding Shareholder Complaints by Mr. Nye Lavalle," Baker Hostetler corroborated most of Nye's allegations.
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But the movie — or, at least, this trailer — looks goofy and saccharine in a way that makes everything here seem like parody.
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This isn't a saccharine ode to love and doesn't try subtly flirt with the idea of relationships either—seeing a theme yet??
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Instead, these songs — many rooted in the sounds of the 1950s — succeed because of their utter certainty, stacked with indestructibly saccharine harmonies.
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Because during the holidays, social media transforms from a place for looking at hot people to a wasteland flooded with saccharine content.
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The tone turns saccharine and then, with a sex-work subplot that could be ripped from a nineteenth-century penny dreadful, maudlin.
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On "Si Te Vas," his new single with the chameleonic Ozuna, Sech's natural creaminess provides a lovely contrast to Ozuna's saccharine regret.
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The 1993 film Rudy offers the saccharine story of underdog Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, a mild-mannered kid from a blue collar family.
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"Fruit Salad" is a rap track that's actually about eating your vegetables, delivered in tones as saccharine and elastic as Laffy Taffy.
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PARELES In which post-Young Thug fever-pitch syllable squeals finally come full circle and arrive at saccharine-sweet pure-pop accessibility.
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As NYAM's Head of Cataloging Becky Filner recently wrote, most of these saccharine pictures were designed to appeal to women and children.
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The TV series's Gilead is a saccharine combination of various eras that inspire nostalgia in misogynists, from imagined Bible Times to 1950s suburbia.
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She spends hours each night lip-syncing to saccharine pop songs and chatting to her 5m fans, who idolise and lust after her.
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"For too long Republicans haven't been making their case to millennials," Smith said, her saccharine tone smoothing over the severity of the situation.
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"Okay sweetie, just let me know when you're cold and I'll get your blankie for you," she replied in an equally saccharine tone.
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That song, which was playing on the radio non-stop at that time, was too saccharine an ode to America, in Guthrie's opinion.
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And for its first half, at least, it charmingly walks the line between the cute and the precious, the sentimental and the saccharine.
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Mere months later "Sweet Disposition" soundtracked the saccharine, wildly popular indie drama 500 Days of Summer, starring Zooey Deschanel and Gordon Joseph Levitt.
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Eggsy's new nemesis is the unsubtly named Poppy (Julianne Moore), a saccharine, nostalgia-obsessed sociopath with a monopoly on the world drug trade.
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There are ways to celebrate Valentine's Day without buying into the saccharine, rose-colored empire built up around the idea of romantic love.
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It's been getting so much buzz, and yet its trailer made made the movie look so melodramatic, saccharine, twee, overwrought, and manically romantic.
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Apple has equipped Siri with some custom answers to Valentine's Day queries, from booking a romantic restaurant or choosing an appropriately saccharine playlist.
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This wasn't the only narrative to try for a saccharine kind of Eternal Sunshine moral, but it was one of the more unsuccessful.
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Shortening the thing to Newark lumps it in with a thousand other forgettable, saccharine indie movies named after towns and cities and whatever.
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The saccharine sweetness of power-pop can often make you wince, but these guys manage to keep an element of roughness about them.
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The Toronto native slipped into the guise of "Jared," whose saccharine cheer and Jaromir Jagr fandom proved too much for host Kenan Thompson.
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But the books never come across as saccharine or twee; instead, the images demonstrate van Es's veneration of the traces of human interaction.
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You'd assume that "Last Christmas" would find itself unwittingly marinating in the same sentimentality that makes most festive music so unpalatable and saccharine.
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For Bourassa, the shooter's saccharine taste is made even sweeter by the fact that despite his extraordinary caper, he is a free man.
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That system is represented and caricatured here in the form of a saccharine, double-talking case manager (Nancy Giles) at Colossal Care Insurance.
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His sometimes saccharine call to summon the nation's better angels would compete with the likely pitch of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey.
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She was nothing like the saccharine character portrayed on the screen — she did exactly what she wanted and always got away with it.
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But in its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.
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It's scored and presented in what I bet some people would find a saccharine way, but I find it a pretty stark movie.
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Only then can celebration become deep, rich and resonant, not as a saccharine act of delusion but as a defiant act of hope.
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But it does have that whiff of saccharine cheesiness that we love so much, even as it tugs ever-so-unsubtly at the heartstrings.
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The city is in the midst of a restaurant boom, and King Street has become the embodiment of a new, saccharine-free Southern charm.
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And as a lyricist, she's earnest but not saccharine — even when she blends smoothly with another singer, Sachal Vasandani, on "Away," a lite-samba.
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That's how this year's most saccharine beauty launches have left me feeling after months of seeing nothing but rainbow-covered, unicorn-themed glitter bombs.
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We're not thrown into a saccharine world clearly hiding a dark secret, but an imperfect one where some people make impulsive and selfish decisions.
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This afternoon is a much-needed dose of pragmatism, cutting right through the saccharine fantasy the show is otherwise more than happy to push.
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Sometimes, the good stuff is found in a simple fisheye lens, some saccharine colours, and just watching a band rip their instruments to shreds.
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Or maybe you revel at the thought of being unable to distinguish between the saccharine fruit of your labor and your candy-coated lunch.
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Maybe it will be exploring that while also continuing to push the poles of what sounds really abrasive and what sounds saccharine and sweet.
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And it's surprisingly watchable — the humor isn't too broad or saccharine, and the central performers are skillful enough to make the emotions feel real.
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Leafing through your family's antique media makes every subsequent moment spent clicking through social media feel like saccharine connectivity, a feast of empty calories.
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It's not unusual to order Spam and eggs over noodles with a sticky, saccharine pineapple bun and lemon iced tea, or hot Coca-Cola.
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The impulse to blast saccharine Europop from your car, scream at strangers, and stream it all on Facebook live is a very specific one.
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Instead of saccharine (and secular) messages of peace and joy, people are branding their cards with the memes and slogans from the ongoing movement.
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Instead, she's chosen to sit by quietly and tweet out meaningless saccharine bromides about bullying you could pull from any sixth grade student council campaign.
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Sennheiser's example use cases outline a parent recording their child's school recital or their first bike ride, as shown in this saccharine promo video below.
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Over the years, February 14th has been saddled with the reputation of a saccharine, commercial-driven event, complete with bad candy and cheap Teddy bears.
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But as Musekiwa grew older, he began to find a disparity between the somewhat saccharine objects he was creating and life in his tumultuous society.
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Often saccharine and always dramatic, you could count on these dude ballads to have some post-grunge hard guitar, because you were a man, godammit.
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However, perhaps no ad managed to be so thoroughly tone deaf as the smug, saccharine, and stupid Airbnb ad known only by its hashtag -- #WeAccept.
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The Pérodos, a cheap jazz club in the basement of a modest hotel, is a favorite haunt of Gréco's because it serves orangeade with saccharine.
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It's brutal, but understandable: Most of us hear "cheap perfume" and think of saccharine-sweet, alcohol-heavy, vanilla-coconut scents that suffocate us in elevators.
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If it seems a bit saccharine to you now, that is only because you have yet to tally what building a beloved community might cost.
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The videos are earnest and adorably cheese-ball, bearing the production tropes of '80s VHS: There are spinning wipe effects, gratuitous zooms, saccharine background music.
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Each one of these leaders uses chameleon-like methods: cloaking themselves in the garb of the alienated, offering a saccharine alternative and surfing popular trends.
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Its album is a full-spectrum auditory experience, the sound of renegade toys weeping after a bender — curious, saccharine, unsteady and twee, but not weak.
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It's all pure elation, pure celebration, the kind of episode of television that no other show could ever pull off without feeling saccharine or twee.
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In Ashbery's hands, the most saccharine and sentimental imagery could transform into an innocent world in which disaster looms invisibly, its presence not yet known.
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Obama was also the first first lady to challenge people to accept a woman who refused to play the role of the saccharine, adoring spouse.
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Critics are hailing Weathering With You as the perfect movie for 2020, a saccharine, candy pop love story that's also an allegory for environmental collapse.
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Her and Matt's love for their daughter, though unflaggingly saccharine (pet names include "whippersnapper" and "Scooby Doobie"), is the most effective part of the book.
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Opinion Columnist The State of the Union address on Tuesday night was, as expected, an interminable farrago of boasting, nativism, saccharine clichés and outright lies.
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Stewing in the saccharine runoff of rave music, Senni returns to scientific impulses with this giddy disassembly of one of dance music's most ecstatic subgenres.
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Their resulting mother/son bond is right on the border of co-dependent, so specific in its sweetness that it manages to avoid becoming saccharine.
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When American Ballet Theatre decided to revive Richard Strauss's surrealist, saccharine 'Whipped Cream,' Mark Ryden was the ideal candidate to create the set and costumes.
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For four solid years now, the foremost DJ of dewy-eyed, saccharine tech-house has been lionized and idolized, presented as the exemplar of club culture.
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The crepe cake is innocuous enough, a saccharine slice of fluff topped in a pastel layer of marshmallowy frosting with the texture and consistency of styrofoam.
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It's catchy and fucked up in equal measure—twisted-up, pitch shifted, and bit-crushed, but still full of saccharine moments that'll please your lizard brain.
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Aside from the saccharine sweet assault on the tastebuds, this truly abominable beverage is a portent of doom for the once-great nation that was America.
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He has cracked his skull open like a piñata to make delightfully saccharine, mixed-media works with the scattered, scooped-up, smashed, and smelted intellectual data.
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And with previous phone names like Pixi, Pop and Idol, Alcatel's previous phones seemed more concerned with the latest saccharine teen singing sensation than actual tech.
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But look beyond the saccharine sell, and you'll notice that about one-third of the celebrity musicians on board for Sounds Like You are country artists.
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It's saccharine but not nearly as entertaining as constant ironic humor for an audience who knows the Beatles and will delight at every heavy-handed wink.
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In fact, most people know the star for her acting roles in films like A Walk To Remember and saccharine pop songs of the early 2000s.
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In that case, and here in "The Glass Castle", it feels as though more convincing, nuanced endings were shrugged off in favour of something more saccharine.
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That faith and attention to minutiae and ritual are what make The Show 18 a far more inspiring tribute to the game than any saccharine intro.
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It's but one more effort, building on saccharine rockers Babymetal and holographic superstar Hatsune Miku, that proves there is no shortage of ingenuity in J-pop.
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On top of everything else, the controversy gives ammunition to people who believe that platforms like YouTube are deliberately crafting some kind of saccharine liberal dystopia.
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If that sounds saccharine, Take Care of My Cat offers sordid realism, chronicling the friendship of five women who, after graduating, drift apart amid economic anxieties.
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But she can dial it back on a dime too: "Pretty Girl," with its Twin Peaks-esque sonics and cantering beats, is wistful without being saccharine.
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I don't know if you've ever heard the phrase "gilding the lily" but sweet mother of sweating saccharine glucose attacks, what the hell is going on?
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It was also unendingly saccharine, as the band dropped out so Skiba could scream "I'd love to rub your back" at the top of his lungs.
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The Camo-FloweredHere's a hint: If you're looking to juxtapose any aesthetics — saccharine and rough, athletic and polished, punk and prim — having a common denominator helps.
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Ever since Kobe penned his sonnet to an orange leather orb back in November, every discussion of this NBA generation's saltiest player now veers into saccharine.
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This year a new crop of sophisticated fruit scents has arrived, with far more finesse, imagination and subtle charm than the saccharine offerings of summers past.
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As a Freeform show, "Cloak & Dagger" has to skew in family-soap-opera and teenage-romance directions, with the requisite pop soundtrack and slightly saccharine aftertaste.
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"Clarity" is an impressive statement of purpose from Kim Petras, who's clearly enamored of all of pop's most saccharine subthreads and also its left-field auteurs.
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Everything around you is saccharine and beckoning, in vivid, manic color, but you just want to find the path that leads to fresh air and safety.
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They can act as counterprogramming in a saccharine sea of cute dogs and talking babies, said Steven Miller of Rutgers University's department of journalism and media studies.
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The film's weakest link is the dialogue, which is more eye-rollingly saccharine than all the marzipan, meringue and cream frosting in the Land of Sweets combined.
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Without saccharine imagery or clichés, for the most part, the young photographer captured the city with a sense of realism, tinged with affection for his temporary home.
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If the saccharine nature of a communion wafer-style biscuit is not your jam, the bakery also sells some glorious cakes that resemble a unicorn's flattened head.
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One thing is certain: Bouguereau's crowd-pleasing paintings were so saccharine, silky, and Mannerist that the French intelligentsia finally convulsed in response and gave birth to Modernism.
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Haynes is never afraid of plunging to the bottom of wells of emotions, and he does it so confidently that it never comes across saccharine or sentimental.
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Kendrick is committed to her cheery role, delivering its saccharine and slapstick elements with equal enthusiasm, and pretty much everyone else in the cast is good enough.
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Forget the saccharine ballads wailed by Disney princesses and other kitsch associated with the Broadway singer Lea Salonga, who appeared on Wednesday evening at Feinstein's/54 Below.
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Most of Mr. Gerstein's books wrestled in some way with questions about human behavior that worked themselves out through storytelling, though they were never preachy or saccharine.
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Aside from the chocolate and roses and other saccharine elements of this holiday, it's really just a day to reflect gratitude for the great love in your life.
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Critics sneered when Academy Award voters named this saccharine tale of a friendship between a black pianist and his white, tough-guy chauffeur the Best Picture of 2018.
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But there's no shortage of saccharine bath treats in the company's current inventory, so you have full license to console yourself with one of its many other offerings.
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By the same token, if a "Peaceful Piano" playlist is composed of peaceful piano music, it doesn't matter if some of the melodic phrases are a bit saccharine.
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That largely meant synthesizers with the crackly and saccharine characteristics of rock candy and winning drops as gooey and surreal as a ski trip down the Gumdrop Mountains.
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Love Actually may be a romance and a holiday flick, but somehow it's one movie able to carefully toe the line between being saccharine-sweet and completely heartwarming.
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They'd been there for years, these YouTube clips of LGBTQ vloggers opening up about their sexuality, but I'd dismissed them as irrelevant to me—too saccharine, too earnest.
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And for all you lovestruck, Hallmark-card-holding jerks out there, we even have some tales of straight-up squishy, saccharine love—for compost and chicken wings. Awww.
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And the weird, infantilizing rituals that surround #adulting have made taking care of yourself into something that can smack of dorkiness, or at least an unpleasant, saccharine earnestness.
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Done up with the saccharine rhetoric of a campaign spot, it's a jazzy propaganda for universal basic income hinging on the trope of creating more time for living.
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Sleek, highly produced and catchy almost to a fault, tracks like "Heart to Break" and "I Don't Want It at All" push the form to its saccharine extremes.
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"What critics said: "While 'Insatiable' would like you to excuse its considerable meanness as satire or even good-doing, the truth is that it's often tooth-tinglingly saccharine.
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He has a vivid signature approach: sing-rapping with heavy digital manipulation, somewhere way past the saccharine Auto-Tuned warble of T-Pain, in an outlandishly naïve voice.
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It is a deeply heartfelt production, sweet without being saccharine, as well as sophisticated about and truly interested in all the varieties of love, from familial to carnal.
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Likewise, drab grounds a room with a lot of color, balancing out lighter tones, preventing them from seeming girlish or saccharine, and keeping bright ones from looking cartoony.
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Though they had the trappings of a pop-punk band, they eschewed the squeaky clean production that was all the rage and excised all the saccharine subject matter.
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The newly formed Monsanto Chemical Company became one of his most persistent foes, after U.S.D.A. chemists questioned the safety of saccharine and caffeine, two additives that it manufactured.
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Haynes is never afraid of plunging to the bottom of wells of emotions, and he does it so confidently that it never comes across as saccharine or sentimental.
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Because as attractive as some of them are, I still can't reconcile myself to the saccharine and melodramatic formulas that seem to be mandatory in their original markets.
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She's as comfortable writing and singing moody songs about clandestine trysts in a nightclub as she is describing the overwhelming and saccharine giddiness of love at first sight.
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Beyond all her verbal pyrotechnics, Emezi's ability to literalize the experience of a fragmented identity is astonishing: It's affecting without venturing into pathos, and hopeful without becoming saccharine.
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HEY VIOLET "From the Outside" (Hi Or Hey/Capitol/Caroline) Perhaps this year's most punk pop album, "From the Outside" is saccharine and stern and, most importantly, stinging.
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But in the hands of Gadot and director Patty Jenkins, a scene that might've otherwise come off as cheesy or saccharine is instead infused with dignity and humanity.
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Tuesday night on Nine-Nine, we got not only a romantic — yet not saccharine — proposal, but also a surprisingly feminist one, written by Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor.
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My own feeling was that it featured four songs of inventive brilliance, and three songs that are just a little "too saccharine" (to paraphrase his character in The Hunger).
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The book starts with a breakup, and while there is an erotic romantic plot with her merman rebound (just go with it), this book is definitely anything but saccharine.
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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore tested the toxicity of aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k.
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Watching George come to terms with his own unhappiness keeps that final beat of reuniting with his family, which practically bubbles over with grateful joy, from being too saccharine.
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True to his name, he frappes the hallmarks of contemporary EDM production into a saccharine neon soup of helium vocals, giddy trance synths, trap drums, and nuclear dubstep drops.
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Three years after their Apar album release, Barcelona-based dance quartet Delorean dropped a saccharine pop LP, Musik, via their own PHLEX label, to the delight of fans worldwide.
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I also have a cup of coffee that I make from my Keurig and I sweeten with honey — not sugar or saccharine — and a little bit of skim milk.
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We attempted to improve upon the sugary substance by turning it into a spritzer — but diluting the wine with seltzer water still only mildly subdued its heavily saccharine flavor.
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We tried not to go too far into puppy-dog territory, because for us, that was pushing a lot of Disney beats, and kind of making his performance saccharine.
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But it's one-on-one, where his temperament — earnestly upbeat, but with a self-deprecating humor and a subtly forceful undertone blocking any threat of saccharine — is most effective.
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Another sketch, involving a saccharine YouTube vlogger encouraging her viewers to "dress like a boy" and practice "neutral face" when walking home at night, draws laughs from the crowd.
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What most delighted the eye, though, were the colors: fire engine red, azure blue, a pink not quite the saccharine millennial hue but something closer to baby boomer bassinet.
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A few years later, sick of the saccharine professionalism of Mantovani and thrilled by the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, an army of kids bought electric guitars and formed bands.
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So much of the humor in Marriage Story — which I find to be hugely important to preventing it from becoming an endlessly saccharine family drama — comes from Charlie's storyline.
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She&aposs as comfortable writing and singing moody songs about clandestine trysts in a nightclub as she is describing the overwhelming and saccharine giddiness of love at first sight.
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Maybe this all sounds too indulgent, too saccharine to be fun — and if that's your immediate reaction to reading this, you're probably right that this show isn't for you.
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His organizational skills seem pretty tight too, and he was able to bring ten or so like minded friends to record Cherry Death's album Saccharine over the summer of 2016.
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First appearing in the late 230s, these hokey sculptures were sold as three-dimensional greeting cards, each embodying a different emotion, phrase, or sentiment, from the saccharine to the irreverent.
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On paper, it's a look that sounds more saccharine than sexy: a clash of pink and red makeup worn on lids, cheeks, and lips (yes, all at the same time).
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This continues to be my least favorite film to look at, with its latest trailer showing even more of its saccharine, dreamy world filled with loads of uncanny-valley CGI.
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The early-aughts run of mid-tier reality dating staples—Blind Date (UPN), Change of Heart (syndicated), Next (MTV), and Paradise Hotel (Fox)—exposed me to the genre's saccharine chaos.
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He initially pitched himself as a moderniser, able to broaden his party's appeal through his endlessly repeated back-story, with its saccharine ode to America, his oratory and telegenic smile.
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But Cottrill, after her breakout video, released an EP called "diary 001," which included "Pretty Girl" and five other songs that employed saccharine synths and plainspoken lyrics about puppy love.
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A notably irreverent interpretation is the photographer David LaChapelle's "Rebirth of Venus," which continues the debate between admirers of Botticelli and those of Michelangelo, who generally view Botticelli as saccharine.
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The story would be a little saccharine if not for Deronzier's deft touch with animated 3D visuals, which gives humanity's eternal narrative a sense of true wonder and epic scale.
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While bingo is typically associated with church groups and retirement homes—a saccharine game to pass the time for those whose time is running out—this ain't your grandma's bingo.
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And yet, on the rare occasions that real world influences are actually acknowledged on the show, they feel like a rude shattering of a saccharine and heavily-padded fourth wall.
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Back in the real world, Dove shops the most saccharine version of this corporate feminist fairy tale, but the sentiment has become a staple of the beauty — uh, "wellness" industry.
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The old world of Archie was saccharine, down to the 1969 single by spinoff pop group the Archies, "Sugar, Sugar" (which gets an update in the series from the Pussycats).
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While I'd like to judge each episode separately â€" and to some extent I have â€" this show is a package, a fact underscored by its saccharine Love Actually finale.
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There are those who feel that the song addresses the "Rudolph Paradigm"; that is to say the need to balance the season's saccharine, oftentimes nauseating standards with something truly bleak.
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We don't mean to harp on the harp, but let's face it: outside of a very niche audience, its saccharine sounds are at best a particularly dull choice of elevator music.
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They will perk right up and get so sentimental and saccharine towards that you may feel like vomiting—but at least it will get them to stop being such a crybaby.
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Songs like "Gravity" combined the band's saccharine sound with something far more aggressive, while ballads like "I Can Feel You" sound like a more upbeat version of Death Cab for Cutie.
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The saccharine gauze of single "Like Mariah" features a impeccably funky bass line while the twinkling electronics of "Another Thing" feel like it's in the running for chillest dance song ever.
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Very little can be said for Don MacLean's saccharine and embarrassing "American Pie," a song which persists entirely because baby boomers are especially prone to a particularly smug version of nostalgia.
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It can be tough to find one color or pattern that speaks to all of your sensibilities, but, despite its saccharine reputation, no print embodies all of your attitudes like gingham.
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It's why, when "Sweet Avenue" kicked in to close the record, with its loping leads and saccharine subject matter, it couldn't help but feel like Schwarzenbach had earned that simple joy.
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At Prudential Hall in Newark, New Edition, a prototypical 1980s boy band, will deliver its saccharine early R&B hits along with more salacious ones from its members' later solo careers.
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Gretchen and Jimmy are so uncomfortable telling strangers their real courtship story that they make up a saccharine movie version, involving time travel, computer hacking, and an elitist French film professor.
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There has been talk of reviving John McCain's access-heavy "Straight Talk Express" campaign, which would, in theory, continue to cement the saccharine-sweet relationship between Buttigieg and corporate media reporters.
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It's basically a house party with some poolside shots and a run-of-the-mill love story, matching the saccharine toothache of the track's pop-house to its bog-standard visuals.
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But throwing JJ into an exuberant play battle is also the kind of ridiculous sidebar story TV rarely lets characters with disabilities have without tying it up in some saccharine bow.
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Suddenly, it's time to recalibrate and remember we're a global family and perform extremely long saccharine renditions of songs, the type that round off musicals and leave you itching to leave.
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No, not that groovy gunk mucking up the works in The Lovin' Spoonful's 1965 saccharine psych pop hit or, for that matter, anything involving a boy wizard and his beloved franchise.
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Choose your own adventure: Either embrace hyper-femininity by pairing the coat with other frilly and floral pieces, or subvert its saccharine nature by anchoring it with something like combat boots.
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Ms. Williams and her bandmates, Zac Farro and Taylor York have remade themselves into a 1980s pop-rock outfit: tinny digital percussion, synthesizers and mostly constrained, saccharine singing from Ms. Williams.
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In an allegory of boomer-economics, her father has checked out of parenting his motherless daughters, in order to enjoy life with his sex-obsessed, saccharine new fiancée, played by Colman.
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From there, "Here" producer Robokid bumps up the BPM for something more fidgety, leaving saccharine-leaning Virginia producer Alex Ghenea to round things off with a piano-led, peak time remix.
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When you first open the jar, the product smells like marmalade (saccharine and citrusy) and even looks like marmalade (laden with chunks of orange rind) — and this is what gave me pause.
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While others will be compiling lists of the most lovey-dovey saccharine vomit-onto-your-own-genitals bullshit, we know that it's only the sad songs that are truly the most romantic.
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To do so, you must be sickeningly saccharine to others (everyone rates each other on a five-star scale after each interaction) and look for an Instagram-worthy moment in every situation.
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He drives a bus for a living, he writes saccharine, lame-duck poetry, and he has a country-music-loving wife who paints everything in their house in monochrome, including their cupcakes.
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In a country addled by a collective dependence on sugary stuff, adding saccharine flavors—and words like doughnut, vanilla, milkshake, cream, and cake to drink descriptions—seems to immediately make the sale.
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The overly saccharine ads were scarce, and Chris Harrison's dull live reveal of the candidates was abnormal for a show that has shoved promotions in the same calculated way for 13 seasons.
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A key problem is the severe tonal shifts between the game and the TV show — the game is almost entirely adrenaline-fueled combat, while the TV show lurches between jokey and saccharine.
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But the Chinkees' influence persists not just on American bands like the Slants, but overseas as a counter to saccharine and non-confrontational K-pop, which is East Asia's dominant musical export.
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"It was very clear they understood you would ruin Dahl by making it too Disney — too sparkly or saccharine, and yet you don't want to be psychopathic about it," Mr. Minchin said.
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One at Arizona State University showed that a combination of 20 grams of ACV, 40 grams of water and 1 teaspoon of saccharine lowered blood sugar after meals for its 19 subjects.
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It's something that the Virtual Self EP underscored on the whole, using ghostly drum breaks, saccharine synth work, and stuttery abstraction to draw on several decades of the music of sad machines.
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I've been obsessed with comedy for the better part of a decade, and during that time I've become really good at shutting down hecklers with nimble, pointed retorts served with saccharine charm.
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LOVE's tilted "O," which threatens to fall off the otherwise stable design, implicitly critiqued the often hollow sentimentality associated with the word, metaphorically suggesting unrequited longing and disappointment rather than saccharine affection.
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A place to see how resilience isn't abstract saccharine, it's possible; that common cause can still be fostered between strangers, that our capacity for goodness is unknown until it's tested by fire.
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I relish eye-rolling my way through saccharine plotlines that so often hinge on women who don't even know what they're missing: that is, a man (who's also often, gasp, a prince).
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But then the mood turned again, as if the specter of death had been vanquished, and out came a queue of almost saccharine tropical-print gowns worn with crownlike buds and veils.
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Cruel Intentions has all the saccharine tropes of its teen drama contemporaries that centre on the romantic lives of the social elite, but at its core it has a heart of darkness.
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The glazed ceramics, which were especially hot to collect in the Victorian age, are recognizable for their simple folk style and typically saccharine depiction of everyday subjects and scenes of the time.
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" Rickey was pitching me The Epic, Kamasi's 17-song opus that has everything from an ecstatic ode to Malcolm X to a saccharine yet soulful cover of Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune.
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These weren't the saccharine sentiments you buy at a drug store, but beautiful artwork created by the likes of Paul Rand, Milton Glaser, and Louis Silverstein and sent to another designer, Arnold Roston.
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"I haven't been interested in prettiness for a long time, and the world doesn't look saccharine and innocent to me anymore," Chung, who launched her eponymous brand in 2017, said in a statement.
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It's been a pretty sweet time to be in love and have other people in your life that you admire, and the good news is that the saccharine sunshine carries into this week!
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Witness a wedding or 10 there on any given day and you may be surprised to the point of tears by the sincerity of the quickie ceremonies, even in this most saccharine environment.
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And the toasts reveal everything: the rancor between the two families, the promiscuity, the unrequited loves, the bad behavior, the last-minute confessions — all delivered in drunken tangents that end with saccharine platitudes.
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And those clubs, now my youth's been sucked out of me, have a sentimental pull, a kind of saccharine-gravitational belt that I can't extricate myself from without doing serious, and permanent, damage.
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A large cast of costumed characters coated in exaggerated, contoured makeup film each other around an old minivan, bitterly and hoarsely shouting saccharine phrases until hearing them leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
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On "Shot Clock," a song about waiting for a guy to shoot his shot, she interpolates Drake's "Legend," for an edgy departure to her usual saccharine songs that teeter on the brink of pop.
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For the uninitiated, the hallmarks of an emotional banger are a big fuck off kick-drum, saccharine-but-unabashedly-relateable lyrics and the overwhelming feeling of making you want to cry into your WKD.
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Critical reaction to these pop cultural attempts to address the attacks like these were split at the time; many, for instance, took issue with the almost saccharine sincerity in examples like The West Wing.
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As Before the Storm's final episode draws to a conclusion, the saccharine montage of their relationship ends with a particularly gruesome reminder: Rachel has been captured, drugged, and is being tortured just off-screen.
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As nativism and anti-globalization movements gain ground throughout many Western countries, the saccharine themes of world unity and peace that tend to characterize Olympic advertising might seem more potent than usual this year.
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"We all wish we could be in multiple places at once," the saccharine ad copy — no doubt channeling Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's desire to simultaneously extinguish all of his company's press fires — tells us.
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Below, we're premiering "Planet 50/50" by Club Cheval member Panteros666, who pairs trance's saccharine synths with pitched-up baby vocals straight out of a happy hardcore track and kick-in-your-face drums.
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With an intro that sounds like Ms Pacman if she were demented by the ghost of a melting cassette player, it segues into a strawberry gum bubble of saccharine pop at its very best.
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Her images, with large expanses of milky soft focus, exude an ethereal (sometimes saccharine) quality, but when returning to Hamilton's process and her framing question, vulnerability rises as a central concern in the project.
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I wanted to write about being a parent, but not write about the normal things people write about when they're parents—the silly, saccharine, 'ooh aren't I a great dad' and all that crap.
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I like to think of the work as revisionist advertisements, and like any effective branding, it's getting harder and harder for me to think of Haribo without seeing Mark's paintings and their saccharine surrealness.
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A member of Mitch Miller's saccharine yet hugely successful Columbia Records roster, Vale (born Genaro Louis Vitaliano) was one of many Italian-American nightclub singers of the era who were influenced by Bing Crosby.
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There is as much affection for found totems of saccharine girlhood as there is anger or rejection, as much unsatisfied yearning in her distorted images of conventional femininity as there is trauma or shock.
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The very pink installation by Mexican-American artist Yvette Mayorga is a saccharine but bitter vision of the American dream, featuring Rococo-inspired paintings and sculptures that speak to the traumatic experiences of Mexican immigrants.
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Delano Dunn caps off his Project for Empty Space residency with the multi-layered, mixed-media exhibition, Dreams of Fire and Starshine filled with delightfully saccharine, pulpy, images of smashed and smelted pop culture data.
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Their early content is always amateurish, but that's part of their charm, and by the time they shift towards slick, production on their saccharine pop, their audience feel they've been a part of the journey.
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Bay Dream kicks off with a Looney Tunes sound effect of a pop gun being fired, as if all the bad vibes are immediately being dashed away, replaced with something cheerier and sometimes downright saccharine.
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From the long-running Happy Days on ABC through feel-good movie triumphs including 1990's Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall had an uncanny sense of how to hit the sweet spot without being saccharine.
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Airbnb could have set guidelines, caps, perhaps said, "No, asshole, saying you're only renting your home for $203,000 for the entire week [an actual listing] is unreasonable," and kept singing their saccharine pro-consumer tune.
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So, whether you're a macaron aficionado or you've simply got an ever-expanding assortment of swoosh-emblazoned sneakers piling up in your closet, today's the day to add another saccharine-themed pair to your repertoire.
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Bring It On may be a better movie overall (okay, it is), but it's so rare these days to find a non-cynical bit of entertainment that doesn't drip with saccharine or... just totally suck.
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It's The Good Place at its best, using a moral dilemma to force its dysfunctional cast of characters to work together, and cutting what could be a saccharine moral with barbed jokes and startling twists.
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Britney has evolved from a saccharine teen singer to a cultural icon before our eyes, and as she's become healthier and more stable over the years, her reputation as a loving mother has also grown.
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Maybe because this is the kind of sloppy, saccharine ending that works when it comes as the moment of exhale at the bottom of a roller coaster you've been riding for 1,200 pages and two months.
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Despite the challenging nature of their settings, these events featured some of the most influential punk and post-punk bands of the era: Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Einstürzende Neubauten, Saccharine Trust, Savage Republic, and others.
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After a lot of emotional and metaphysical hand-writing, these two lines converge for a bizarre twist that raises profound questions of morality, all of which the filmmakers ignore for a paradoxically saccharine and morbid climax.
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Such strategic productions prevented more nuanced and sincere ideas about queer women's pleasure, sensuality, and eroticism from entering the mainstream, rendering queer love invisible and offering straight, saccharine substitutes as stand-ins for the real thing.
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The Balanchine version may have offended early critics of the spectacle: it is undeniably saccharine, featuring 150 costumes, a large cast of children and a Christmas tree that stands at 20173 feet and weighs a tonne.
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It's totally unrealistic and almost saccharine, but why else would a grown-ass person spend hours inside an idyllic virtual world where their main responsibility on any given day is to wander around in a forest?
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When I was a teenager, years before ever visiting San Francisco, the saccharine song seemed to encompass all the promises of the West Coast: good vibrations, counter culture, and flower crowns (Coachella hadn't ruined them yet).
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But there was always a saccharine dimension to the idealism about the game: Baseball represented a very particular, buttoned-up version of American identity, and players who deviated from it were often subject to harsh criticism.
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In one universe, Patrick Stump, the band's versatile and once-sideburned lead vocalist, is perfecting the chrome-plated R&B that he tinkered with on 2011's saccharine but unfairly derided debut solo LP Soul Punk.
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For those ready to dive into slices of Hanselmann's saccharine goodness, there's no better place to try an Engadine nusstorte specialty: a sticky shortbread confection of walnuts and caramel (21875 francs) to be enjoyed with coffee.
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If you've ever wanted to get off to an image of the scraggly-haired, tattooed frontman of One Direction going down on a saccharine stereotypical Girl Next Door, this is supposed to be the book for you.
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He's a skilled voice artist (there are echoes of his work as the Joker from the animated "Batman" series in Chucky's angrier tones), and he clearly has fun with the mix of saccharine sayings and malevolent menace.
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That's a little unfair — there is certainly horror throughout the latter film, particularly in a gruesome botched execution — but The Green Mile as a whole is overwhelmingly saccharine, and Tom Hanks plays the nicest prison guard ever.
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At the end of the day we're still something you can watch with kids that's not going to be — there's not going to be anything offensive, but it's not quite as saccharine as it was in 1988.
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Just by describing this show, it seems like everything the new vampire shows were going to be: light, saccharine, and bereft of the violence and gore that made vampires so fun to watch in the first place.
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The charming Asleep At Heaven's Gate, on which their most famous track "Lake Michigan" was cut, seemed to push them in one direction before 2010's Permalight, a dancier, more saccharine indie record, ditched the whole thing.
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In the end, it feels as harmlessly saccharine as an after-dinner mint, with one exception — the disclosure, early in the book, that when Shelby was in the mental hospital she was raped repeatedly by an orderly.
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There were no lobbed Pepsi cans involved, at least according to official reports, but a shared joint, passed among people of varying political persuasions, evoked in the minds of many the saccharine sweetness of the Jenner ad.
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The artiste, of course, is this author, and the mommy is mine; it's not quite the saccharine tale people expect of a cherished Yuletide memory, but it suits the dark sense of humor we share just fine.
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And yet, the end of this long struggle for supremacy ends in the most saccharine way possible: all the lords agreeing to a new king, without any debate, because Tyrion offered up some pretty words about stories.
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Described as the biggest development project in Taiwan's history, the multibillion-dollar Taoyuan Aerotropolis promises, in a video with a saccharine violin and harp soundtrack, a futuristic utopia of eco-friendly homes and thousands of technology jobs.
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It's not about relationships, it doesn't have a "social theme" like "Beat It" (a song about how gang violence is bad) and it's preceded by "The Girl Is Mine," maybe the most blandly saccharine entry in Jackson's discography.
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Which is where so much of the appeal of Britney's Instagram lies: she presents her wonderful self and her wonderful life without any of the long, saccharine captions that make you spew in your mouth a little bit.
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Her artful restraint was matched by those around her, including the conductor Karel Mark Chichon, who made his company debut with a performance that kept the drama flowing inexorably forward, cutting the saccharine without stinting on Puccini's lushness.
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He worked on legitimate pop hits as part of Jack Ü, his duo with Diplo, warping the voices of the biggest singers in the world into saccharine instrumentation—as if he'd turned their vocal cords into Nerds Ropes.
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So, in order to make sure we stay afloat during this saccharine season (especially if we're currently un-cuffed), we've rounded up and mapped out the best new limited edition V-Day treats that 2018 has to offer.
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Facebook wouldn't let her forget what day it was for a second, flooding her news feed with images of hearts and flowers, a seemingly endless torrent of saccharine memes, happy couple photos, and loving tributes to loyal partners.
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The electorate that notionally adores "our NHS" and propels a saccharine song by health workers to the top of the Christmas charts shows remarkably little willingness to pay more in tax towards what remains a relatively cheap system.
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In honor of the most saccharine holiday of the year, the cheeky pair put together a sizzling, vinyl-only mix of booty house-flavored sex tracks culled from 80s and 90s Detroit, Chicago, New York and New Jersey.
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It can drift into the saccharine, but "Little America" makes a convincing case that there are many ways of "making it," with characters' successes ranging from making a national sports team to having the confidence to do karaoke.
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Nothing ever happens in this Princess and the Pauper story that will require your full attention — but it is all so satisfyingly formulaic, so gleefully saccharine, that you'll be happy just to have it on in the background.
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Over 808 punishment and staticky melodies that sound somewhere between a nu-metal riff and a saw synth, West and Aaron trade these warm, sticky hooks, melting down their bars into an ugly, delicious, and impossibly saccharine soup.
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Beneath Practical Magic's giddy interludes and saccharine soundtrack (Sally's first kiss with her doomed husband is set to Faith Hill's "This Kiss"), though, there are roots in the same kind of fiercely devoted sisterhood that drives Thelma and Louise.
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Like your favorite popsicle, it's some kind of saccharine, unholy, pasteurized blend of all the things you're supposed to like, that actually—despite reading the ingredients list—turns out being just as pleasant as you hoped it would be.
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They built saccharine sugar rushes around the conceit that good things come to those who wait, that with a little patience, the dopamine rush that listeners and festivalgoers had come to crave would come at just the right time.
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On "Marmalade," from his coming solo album, he runs his voice through some digital processing in order to better suit the galloping, carnivalesque beat, and to sound more simpatico with Lil Yachty, whose saccharine cheers are pure kiddie data.
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Holiday-themed movies always face the risk of veering too far into saccharine sentimentality, but Home Alone cuts the sugar with a truly dark, disturbing undercurrent that becomes more apparent as the viewer leaves childhood further and further behind.
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The woman sitting in front of me with impossibly bright pink hair and a gregarious, saccharine temperament is no longer at the mercy of a major record label to be developed, marketed, and produced as sellable to an audience.
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For Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, all speech—whether it's a breaking news story, a saccharine animal video, an anti-Semitic meme, or a clever advertisement for razors—is but "content," each post just another slice of pie on the carousel.
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Happy Death Day 2U changed the game — not just because it's a perfectly blended genre smoothie that transcends the delightful original's roots, but because it manages to be both unbelievably fun and deeply moving without ever venturing into saccharine territory.
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You can watch a story that doesn't pound into your heart that you're not good enough and that doesn't ignore, with a saccharine toothy smile, that your body is treated differently by the world and you are constantly reminded of that.
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While these young, hot, slim bodies, glowing with the breathless blush of new love, can seem annoyingly saccharine, the paintings are much more formally complex and endeavor to portray the feelings of the people as they respond to one another.
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Ah, no, see you're above all this, aren't you—all the corniness, the hollow performative romance, the booking restaurants months in advance, the hand holding, the rose petals on the bed, the kissing, all of that saccharine shit—nah, dude.
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The piss-colored and sickly saccharine sherry comes in a 750 mL clear plastic bottle with a shitty black screw cap and sells for $7.89, making it 40 percent stronger and 103 percent cheaper than a mediocre bottle of wine.
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Along the lines of those limited-edition Nike x Bandier rose gold sneakers that dropped in 2016, we're guessing these latest ultra-saccharine yet, let's be real, very #OOTD-worthy shoes will be a hit for the swoosh-festooned brand.
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He finds love in Supriya (Yami Gautam), who is also blind, and the two lead such an idyllic and at times saccharine domestic life for the first 45 minutes that it's easy to presume tragedy is lurking around the corner.
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Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the speaker of the House and chairman of this conclave, who delivered an awkward speech that was jammed between saccharine testimonies from former soap actors, minor sports figures and a woman who runs Mr. Trump's winery.
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It's often an austere sort of allure, but the kaleidoscopic sweetness underpinning songs like the Tink and Aaliyah-sampling "Your Love" is part of what makes The Sound so addictive outside of dancefloor contexts—a little saccharine to accompany the sweat.
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Without it, the love songs that regularly place him in the Top 10 — megahits like "All of Me" from 2013 — are anodyne enough to work as wedding songs; they're a worthy and lucrative enterprise that can leave an unctuous, saccharine aftertaste.
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From afar, the sugary frills and flounces of Cecilie Bahnsen's clothes may seem girlish and saccharine, but upon closer inspection there's a distinct Scandinavian minimalism to her designs: Sharp-edged silhouettes and voluminous skirts give her pieces a sense of modernity.
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Mr. Dickerson, a star political interviewer, was shifted from "Face the Nation," but was an awkward fit for the saccharine world of morning TV. A fourth anchor, Bianna Golodryga, was added in October; by April, she had left the network.
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In place of the saccharine costume confections of "The Nutcracker," here were down-home, flowing, church-white gowns, stunning against so much shining dark skin, and redolent of the American South, a dream place I'd visited only in books and song.
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J.P. Two decades ago, the Norwegian production and songwriting duo Stargate — Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen — had its breakthrough with saccharine teen Europop, and in the mid-2000s, evolved into creators of some of this country's most supple R&B.
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There is an ever greater expansion of the bureaucratic demands made by institutions on writers in exchange for a salary as well as an insistent pressure to professionalize that makes Pnin's cantankerousness or saccharine outbursts quite unimaginable in a contemporary setting.
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Through a series of exhaustive interviews and saccharine editorializing, 60 Minutes icon Morley Safer and his crew paste together an alternative reality that attempts to goad a sense of sentimentality out of the viewer by making a villain of Arnett.
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It was also hard to ignore the fact that PC Music's flashy, viral-focused stance on saccharine sincerity took place in Berghain, a club with a strong, silent demeanour—and a very different approach to "authenticity," the media, and online culture.
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This must be a friend you trust, because they are going to see some blindingly close-up photos of your genitals and have to read the 100-text-long threads that descend into language so saccharine it could give you diabetes.
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It's a clinical and straightforward unfolding of a Northern community dealing with systemic abandonment, yet paired with the pastoral bliss of the production—all quaint textures and whimsical melodies—it again communicates an unnerving, saccharine vision of a country rotting behind the scenes.
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While Rakowitz pays homage to the past, Phillipson alludes to a disconcerting future with her candidly titled "THE END," which consists of a saccharine dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry and parasites in the form of a fly and a drone.
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But long before they embraced the saccharine spot where pop meets rock, they had a first life: as a weird, jittery prog and post-hardcore band, who shunned arena-ready theatrics for frantic drum patterns, blood-curdling vocals and distortion-soaked melodies.
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At the risk of sending every little lovebird out there screaming down the altar and demanding their deposits back from the harpist and caterer, some films get that marriage isn't the saccharine love-fest that Hollywood often makes it out to be.
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But Foodman's flip of "On Your Way" pushes the original's candy coated brilliance to realms even more absurd, flipping her dazed vocal take into a swirling ooze of saccharine goo—something as sweet and disgusting as a breast pocket full of meltedice cream.
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While the songs in the first and third films are often either extremely saccharine, full of romantic longing or slow jams, the second prioritizes angst, speed and hilarity—partly because the stakes are higher as the students wrestle with adulthood and each other.
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In 2010, she and Jake Gyllenhaal infamously skipped their way around Brooklyn on their way to meet his family for Thanksgiving, resulting in a series of pictures that looked less like a human couple than a casting call for a saccharine jewelry commercial.
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Yes, it's eight years old, yes it's as lethally saccharine as eating 10 million birthday cakes, and yes it sounds like Postal Service covering Toto's "Africa" as a Coldplay song, which is a combo that slaps far less than that description suggests.
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So when we were presented with the opportunity to spend three days of saccharine-level romance and couple-oriented luxury at the âme Spa & Wellness Collective at Turnberry Isle Miami, we thought it seemed like a fun, if not a little awkward, change.
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Thinking about those views while looking at the stumpy legs and saccharine facial expression in Pierre Firens's "Portrait d'Henri IV sur son lit de mort" ("Portrait of Henri IV on his death bed," 1610) is where the black humor starts to kick in.
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Unsurprisingly, the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew is nutritionally superior to its PSL cousinWith But for those who like their breakfast extra saccharine, Starbucks has also reintroduced its crowd-favorite Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin — which packs salty and sweet into one moist treat.
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In the back, a flour and sugar blend gets squiggled from a pastry bag into hot oil and then dunked in syrup, forming sticky pieces of jalebi; balls of milk called chum chum bathe in a pool of sugar water until saccharine.
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One can only assume that KPOP, an experiential off-Broadway show now in previews at A.R.T./New York in Manhattan, is a mashup of Sleep No More and "Gangnam Style," with the added treat of factory-made superstars and saccharine pop beats.
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Yet for all the earned drama of that transgression, the present-day moments of the memoir — her post-divorce courtship with a secular Jewish lover, a rendezvous in Costa Rica — feel comparatively saccharine and unsatisfying, making the memoir's scattershot, nonchronological structure frustrating.
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When the scientists transplanted microbes from mice fed saccharine to mice that hadn't consumed the sweetener, the recipient animals developed glucose intolerance as well, suggesting that the microbiome that was warped by the sweetener, not the sweetener itself, was causing the problems.
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Politics could even bleed into the game during the halftime musical act — usually a saccharine spectacle — because this year's headliner, Lady Gaga, is an outspoken champion of gay rights and women's rights and has been sharply critical of Mr. Trump at times.
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Basically, we need to go back to Clash of the Titans and apologize, because even the most saccharine exemplars of the sandal-genre are nowhere near as bad as Ben-Hur, which cost $60 million more to make than Passion of the Christ .
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Who among us did not, in adolescence, enjoy the saccharine swill of the Frappuccino, slurped by way of a straw poked through a heavy cloud of whipped cream, basking in the sugary taste of freedom away from the watchful eye of parents or guardians?
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While the glitzy parties, twinkling lights and saccharine made-for-TV movies would have us believe that the holidays are all happy all the time, this time of year — especially after a year like this one — are the hardest for a lot of people.
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Because we aren't looking for the saccharine hues developed for kids and costuming (and in formulas that literally get everywhere), we've rounded up the best glitter eyeliners that stay in place, shift color in the light, and make your party vibe pop — no bottles required.
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Just one day before fellow PC Music affiliate Charli XCX drops her second mixtape of the year, Hannah Diamond—who's been quiet recently—is back with three new saccharine tracks, and they're exactly the sugar rush your mid-December slump is crying out for.
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Yet despite being around for over a decade, nightcore has largely slipped under the music industry's radar, confined to forums and YouTube channels, scoffed off as happy hardcore's saccharine excess, and, at least until recently, buried beneath an avalanche of newer dance music online.
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Seventeen years after the Grammys awarded the first prize for Best Dance Recording to a saccharine, mid-tier disco cut by Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is only just now figuring out what to do with electronic music.
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It is difficult to imagine Aditya Chopra directing a more successful film than his debut blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a saccharine love story which remains an important part of pop culture 21 years after it turned Shah Rukh Khan into a Bollywood superstar.
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This article was originally published on Noisey UK. Say what you like about the flailing "Dirrty" dance routines it spawned, but Christina Aguilera's sophomore album Stripped still has merits beyond the cliché of a former teen star removing her saccharine casing to reveal her womanhood.
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It's all a bit saccharine, but A River Below—which premiered at Tribeca on Earth Day—is not so much a touchy-feely movie about conservation and endangered species as it is a vital work of art for the post-truth era of alternative facts.
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" His signature song is the genteel ballad "For Her," an almost Disney-saccharine tribute to a woman: "She's got a smile that makes your worst day feel like it's your birthday/She's got a laugh like confetti/Would change her name if she'd let me.
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The pulsing harpsichord and haunted choir on "Hell Riders" recall the epic and audacious scores of big budget 80s cinema, while the love-weary piano and almost-saccharine harmonizing synthesizer on "Oh Yes You're There, Everyday," are equal parts infomercial and bleeding-heart ballad.
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But John, with his flair for saccharine cuteness and his insistence on treating his conquests like romantic-comedy heroines, didn't like just to play or cheat, and he certainly didn't like any of his girlfriends to suspect that they didn't have his full attention.
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TWICE "Fancy" The lead single off of Twice's Fancy You encompasses many of the reasons why the girl group is one of Asia's most beloved — the cheeky delivery, saccharine chorus, cutesy exclamations, and the ability to be both approachable and mysterious at the same time.
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But Jane succeeds precisely because of its contradictions — the show's playful tone and perfectly calibrated characters make it easy to justify just about any plot twist, while also enabling the series to comment on important social issues including abortion, immigration and religion without being preachy or saccharine.
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And on days when I down the particular cocktail of nostalgia and self loathing instead of something sensible, like coffee, I climb through my inbox to that forbidden zone, where shards of my past emotional state live on in saccharine all-caps exclamations and sweet sentences.
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Remember all of Pablo Picasso's saccharine depictions of a mother holding her child, from "Mother and Child in front of a Vase of Flowers" (1901) to "Mother and Child" (1965), and you get a sense of just how tough, interesting, smart, and funny Dufresne can be.
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The cheery, saccharine planetary energy of this week and last week builds up to a full moon in Aquarius on Thursday August 15, at 8:29 AM. This full moon requests that we balance our need to stand out from the crowd and our identity within it.
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They chose to amalgamate some pretty top-tier fluff—mainly The Parent Trap, Princess Diaries and, yes, The Lizzie McGuire Movie—to make a movie so saccharine, watching it is like eating a cream puff that's been baked inside a cupcake that's been stuffed into a pie.
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Growing up as a middle class Black woman in blisteringly white Missouri suburbs, the white girl-centered genre's generally saccharine endings were not so much relatable to me as they were aspirational and a portal away from the alienating anti-Black environment in which I lived.
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Two videos shown on monitors suspended from the ceiling and a handful of photographs reproduce saccharine or banal subjects that Mr. Demand photographed with his cellphone: a red bow tied to a fence; a box with electrical wiring; blinking stoplights and balloons attached to a plastic clip.
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There is a tinge of saccharine optimism here; however, the best of the 1317 works by 18 artists in the show display a keen awareness of the complexity of the present and the imperative to formulate responses through making and doing, rather than through dry critique.
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In the wake of Donald Trump's election, there has been a rash of advertisements seeking to remind consumers of what really makes America great, or to push saccharine messages about the idea that by working together, we can fight evil and make the world a better place.
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Both of the pregame performances were by black artists: a taut, controlled reading of "America the Beautiful" by Chloe x Halle and an impressive, if Disney-saccharine, national anthem from Gladys Knight, who before the game criticized Kaepernick for making the anthem a site of protest.
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For example, Neuro Gasm contains 400 international units (IU) of vitamin D, and the recommended dietary allowance for most adults is 600 IU. So, the next time you're choosing a bottled drink at the grocery store, and you enjoy the saccharine taste of Neuro Drinks, then you do you.
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And that meant that a night playing at Los Crazios became less a musical journey and more an attempt to steer a disparate ship through a sticky-floored and carnivalesque series of booze-sodden waves, with only saccharine teen pop, bait R&B, and 80s nostalgia anthems for support.
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The show was set in a venue where Burton worked with McQueen himself 20 years ago, and the latest collection seemed like somewhat of a continuation of the unapologetically feminine offerings from last season, with a plethora of pink lips, flowers, and butterflies — typical, almost saccharine symbols of womanhood.
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As Lee begins to make a living by forging letters from famous authors, the film stays away from the saccharine, instead of using the story to study relationships between people who don't necessarily know how to open up to or maintain them, and the worth of one's work.
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Most Bon Appétit YouTube stars balance video appearances with writing and editorial work for the magazine, and it's hard to imagine every dynamic in the Test Kitchen is as saccharine as it looks on camera: They're workers, too, whose labor is intended to fuel profits for Condé Nast.
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MARLEY By Jon Clinch "A Christmas Carol," despite the multitudinous saccharine versions souped up on stage and screen every festive season, is a pretty damn scary thing, but Jon Clinch's prequel to it is black as hell, outstripping even Dickens's remorseless and painful probings of his protagonist's soul.
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" That view was at odds with the assessment of another Guardian reviewer, who wrote in July 2015 that Mr. Rieu's performance in one film was "the very acme of commodified classical music, and as poor old Strauss waltzes and polkas and other unsuspecting masterpieces were turned into saccharine fodder.
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Her pure, precise soprano is warm without burr or melisma, its mellow sweetness never saccharine or showy as it strolls through a front-loaded garden of sonic delights where Nicki Minaj outgrowls Missy Elliott and Pharrell Williams's inventions are more subtle yet also more thrilling than Max Martin's.
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He pines for a past lovers and the two production-styles slowly meld together, sulphuric 808s lending a doomy melancholy to the riffs—and then a final saccharine hook it descends into digitalist moaning and black metal tremolo picking, like something from that Liturgy album that everyone hated except me.
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By this point in the San Pedro, California denizen's life, he'd earned his stars as a veteran with the seminal punk trio Minutemen and its spiritual indie rock successor fIREHOSE, along with roles or stints on the bass in other 21995s/295s projects like Ciccone Youth, Dos, and Saccharine Trust.
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Facebook has been allowed to acquire several other social communication networks — most notably photo-focused social network Instagram (219 billion monthly active users) and messaging app platform WhatsApp (22018 billion) — so Zuckerberg has not just ONE massively popular social network (Facebook: [2120BN]) but a saccharine suite of eyeball-harvesting machines.
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Opening with PC Music's signature saccharine synths—a mainstay over the course of the track—with a distinctly 90's Euro-style club beat pulsating throughout, it seems that although the PC Music phenomenon has dulled, Harle's production style has just become even more outrageous (and that's definitely a good thing).
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Scenes of innocence — Green and Marlon clowning in homemade pro-wrestler costumes, or watching VHS tapes of Larry Bird-era Celtics games from inside a living room fort made of blankets and chairs — serve as their delicately calibrated counterbalances, affecting in their sweetness but credible in their lack of saccharine.
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On the one hand, the group is chameleonic — on "Boy With Luv," it partners with Halsey for a saccharine neo-disco adventure; the squelchy "Make It Right" is written partly by Ed Sheeran and does an effective job of containing BTS's exuberant energy in one of Sheeran's signature neat packages.
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I love that people have the same political views as I do, and that there's the sugary and saccharine sweet fantasy of Hollywood," he said, as the model Birgit Kos crossed the room in an orchid-toned satin gown, its dense tail of heavy black sequins crunching with each step. "L.
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So when American Ballet Theatre's choreographer and artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky and artistic director Kevin McKenzie decided to revive Richard Strauss's surrealist and saccharine ballet Whipped Cream (called Schlagobers when it was originally performed in Vienna in 219), Ryden was the ideal candidate to create the set and costumes.
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But after crying wolf throughout these years, calling everyone from saccharine pop stars to Justin Trudeau a 'white supremacist' and everyone who wasn't With Her a sexist, the real wolf eventually arrived, in the form of the openly white nationalist alt-right who hid among an online army of ironic in-jokey trolls.
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Hugo got his fair share of crowd love last night as Courtney, a Graham Coxon-like wizard on guitar, noodled away smiling, and Jen hammered her kit while leading their saccharine tunes with a vocal that sounds like you need to press your ear up against a wall to hear it clearly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, with its outsized Christmas celebration and foray into the Land of Sweets, has become such an ingrained Holiday-time tradition that, more often than not, all these dancing confectioneries tend to feel too cloyingly saccharine, especially when the ballet is just pure repertoire.
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If, like me, you're worried about your desire to tune in to a weepy show that is almost certainly going to make you cry, University of Oklahoma psychology professor Jessica Black, PhD, assures us that those super-saccharine moments are exactly why the series is resonating so deeply with everyone right now.
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On a menu laden with familiar one-note flavors (sweet and sour pork, Mongolian beef) dressed up with little more than a few peanuts and carrot coins, Caramel Chicken (in spite of its saccharine-sounding name) was the only entrée with any fresh vegetables: a "slaw" of carrots, red peppers, pineapple, and cilantro.
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In "Rapture" (2011), a young man and woman, standing on a beach in a saccharine stock photo, are blasted by bedazzling light, perhaps Katchadourian's version of the "light from heaven" (in the King James version of Acts 9) that stunned Saul on the road to Damascus and changed him into the Apostle Paul.
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Blueface was the starting quarterback, and talented — "Not only could he throw the ball, he could run the ball as well," Coan said — and also easy to coach: After the team worked out in the weight room, Blueface would blast the gratingly saccharine "Clean Up," from the Barney children's series, from his phone.
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Pickett's next biggest single, "Graduation Day" (a saccharine tune he later described as "an embarrassment") only reached No. 80 in June 1963, and he was absent on the pop charts for much of the rest of the decade, though he worked steadily in commercials, B-movies and episodic television at his first love, acting.
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Chileans top theirs with avocado and cilantro sauce; Thais wrap it in a saccharine crepe with margarine and chile sauce; Colombians go all out with pineapple, cheese, and, in a stroke of brilliance, potato chips; Americans roll it in batter and deep-fry the whole damn thing, because that is just what we do.
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There is the terrifying video of Diamond Reynolds's 911 call after her boyfriend, Philando Castile, was shot by a police officer — and right after that, the singer Nina Simone performing at the Montreux Festival in 21966 and commenting to the audience on how the lyrics of the seemingly saccharine song "Feelings" are actually depressing.
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Which is all just to say that I can't personally promise that I cook "with love," a saccharine phrase that kind of makes me shiver, but I cook with a lot of pleasure when I know I am not wasting food, money, time or too much energy absorbing the mistakes of inexperienced line cooks.
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On the other side of the butt is a gallery whose walls are covered in a Windows 95-like mural of a perfect blue sky, dotted with impossibly picturesque clouds, providing an almost saccharine backdrop to four metal medieval chastity belts, hanging on chains from the ceiling and embellished with cut-out art nouveau floral motifs.
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In doing so, the series represents a significant step forward for subject matter that has been presented mostly in either a saccharine or hyper-masculinized form, seen in the short-lived drama Playmakers, large portions of the yearly installments of Hard Knocks, and now in HBO's Entourage-like Ballers, a Dwayne Johnson–led fantasia of professional football in Miami.
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So, if your timeline has been ruthlessly commandeered by outpourings of love for Coldplay's pedestrian Super Bowl performance and you need some sort of respite from the Niagara of saccharine sincerity that is Chris Martin doing a kick jump and going, "Whoawhoawhoooooa"—without any sharks or robotic tigers, I mean WTF, man—then here's your lava hot medicine.
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Well, after revisiting this two-hour extravaganza on Tuesday, when it was presented by Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, I think that if it's not his worst, it surely reflects his worst tendencies: his allergy to self-editing, his saccharine streak, his embarrassing wordplay, his obsession with (and tone-deafness toward) youth culture, his weak counterfeits of pop styles.
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We were then into a quick blitz of DJ Lewi's "Hold Me Tight"—its metre-thick low-end rumbling your ear drums—and the Daryl B & M Yardley remix of Tony Momrelle's "If You Were Here Tonight," a saccharine hit of R&B played on fast-forward with a bassline that sounded kind of like Lisa Simpson playing the jug.
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Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has offered both bluster and a saccharine assertion that he wants to listen and learn.
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In addition to bemused, self-deprecating, and often unabashedly saccharine narrations of family life, Gopnik's job at The New Yorker seemed to involve running around the city doing things that normal people imagine rich New Yorkers doing, like going to an artist's study on Friday afternoons for a "year or so" to draw nude models, or spending six years in psychoanalysis.
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Produced by members of the infamous dance-pop collective PC Music, whose partnership appears to have helped Charli embody the weirdest (and best) version of her vision for herself, the tape sounds like how a 16-year-old's Tumblr page looks—all 90s trash imagery, saccharine pop beats, and lyrics about angel wings and getting all the way fucked up.
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It documented what Wallace called the "grudging move toward maybe acknowledging that this unromantic, unhip, clichéd A.A. thing — so unlikely and unpromising ... this goofy slapdash anarchic system of low-rent gatherings and corny slogans and saccharine grins and hideous coffee" might actually offer hope, in its simplicity and its slogans, in its church-basement coffee and its effusion of anonymous and unqualified love.
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While Athill was quick to point out the injustices of growing older, chief among them giving up sex (Athill loved sex in her very British way, decreeing that every woman should have a few good love affairs), her tone was almost defiantly peppy — never saccharine, but refusing to give in to the weighty fear with which we tend to face the great unknown.
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But it's interesting that the idea of breaking up tech giants now plays so well as political theatre, suggesting that wildly successful consumer technology companies — which have long dined out on shiny convenience-based marketing claims, made ever so saccharine sweet via the lure of 'free' services — have lost a big chunk of their populist pull, dogged as they have been by so many scandals.
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It's an aesthetic the group perfected in the late 1990s, when it stripped any final vestige of angst from punk, with results generally along the lines of "whiny whine mope/whiiiiny whiiine moooope/chug chug chug chug pow pow pow pow" (repeat 8 times) — pop-punk as structurally flawless as anything from the Brill Building or "Grease," a saccharine soundtrack for high-fives and restless preteen energy.
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Books for teens had previously been sweet, even saccharine, like Maureen Daly's story of two good-hearted Wisconsin teenagers in love, Seventeeth Summer (250); socially conscious, like Paul Zindel's The Pigman (1968) in which two students befriend a middle-aged outcast; funny and all-too-real, like most of Judy Blume or Louise Fitzhugh; or on-message, like Beatrice Sparks's "anonymous" 1971 drug diary, Go Ask Alice.
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"Steve's in Germany / That's it / I try to think of anyone else / No, yeah, that's it / So I resolve to make new friends / I liked my old ones but I fucked up so I'll start again", Hall sings, somehow reading from the mid-20s journal I haven't actually written yet, while avoiding the saccharine and ushering the phrase "tasteful banjo" back into 53 lexicon.
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It has to be sweet, but not so saccharine you want to vom; it has to make you want to dance rather than give you a headache; it has to be emotional but not too taxing; it has to have a chorus that sticks to the walls of your brain like glitter over glue, buzzing round your head long after the track has finished.
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For example, back in 22017, at the height of pumpkin spice mania, this very website described the PSL as "an unctuous, pungent, saccharine brown liquid, equal parts dairy and diabetes, served in paper cups and guzzled down by the liter" — even though clearly the pumpkin spice latte is a highly delicious treat that pairs well with wearing vests and making dorky comments about how crisp the air feels today.
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Playlist: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" / "When I'm Sixty-Four" / "Lovely Rita" / "Honey Pie" / "Martha My Dear" / "You Gave Me the Answer" / "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Your Mother Should Know" / "Her Majesty" Spotify | Apple Music McCartney's earnestness and sentimentality would sometimes tip a bit too far toward the saccharine side of the spectrum and bite him in the ass as a songwriter, but ultimately they are his greatest gift.
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It is a balance that Bertrand Guyon is gradually finding at Schiaparelli, which this season teetered between crowd-pleasing circus and strict chic via jeweled zebras leaping high on the hip of asymmetric cocktail frocks: pressed palazzo pants under starburst jackets, the shoulders curved like a Ferris wheel; and party dresses that alternated sparkling saccharine piñata stripes with soigné cowl-draped bias-cuts — though he took a tumble with bloomers and quilted butterfly bed jackets.
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So I could go on some sort of saccharine naval gazing bit about how Rocky films are about heart, and family, and overcoming adversary, and that hard work can trump natural athleticism, and that getting punched really hard and repeatedly in the head is superbly heroic, or the importance of running up steps, but as the Rocky montage from Rocky IV tells you: No, the Rocky films are about one thing, and one thing only.
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" When asked about the health issues associated with artificial sweeteners, the American Heart Association referred to a statement of theirs from last year, addressing sugar consumption in children and inconclusive research on the matter: "Because of the lack of research for or against the routine use of non-nutritive sweeteners, such as aspartame, saccharine, and sucralose in the diets of children, the authors felt they could not make a recommendation for or against these no-calorie sweeteners.
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Hello Kitty, for example, might look like a saccharine kitten, but she has an impassive stare and no mouth; Pikachu, the yellow electric mouse from Pokemon, looks like a cuddly rodent but can unleash a deadly power and has a roguish behavior; the wrinkled E.T. resembles both a newborn baby and an elderly person; and even Micky Mouse, who epitomizes the benevolence and innocence of Disney, originally had a sadistic streak and a trickster-like personality.
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" Heti is at her best — her sharpest and funniest — when she writes about why having a child doesn't appeal to her, cutting against saccharine commonplaces about the importance of child-rearing: "It's like the story my religious cousin told me when we were at her home for Shabbat dinner — of the girl who made chicken the way her mother did, which was the way her mother did: always tying the chicken legs together before putting it in the pot.
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It's easy for a record like this—a loose concept record about a world gone and now only existing in our broken collective conscious, a laughable romance indescribably far from where we are now—to drift into appropriation or exist as a saccharine lament for the things we've lost, but Wall's grasp of songwriting (remarkably assured considering our dude wasn't able to drink when he released his debut three years ago) paints a landscape that's not only charmingly romantic, but actively responsive to the modern iterations of country western music.
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Sometimes — like with the saccharine series finale of Friends — integrating the upbeat synth organ of "Walk of Life" just makes sense: Other times, introducing "Walk of Life" into the mix makes you laugh in the face of horrific death, like with the ending of The Blair Witch Project: And then there are the instances that will forever haunt your dreams, lurking in the back of your subconscious every time you walk down an empty hallway, ride a rickety elevator, or wait an extra minute for a sandwich, biding its time until you let your mind wander just long enough to bring you back to this, the ending of The Shining … as set to "Walk of Life": The more you watch Salomone's "Walk of Life" edits, the more you'll start to wonder whether there was ever another song that ended the original movies.
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