The gesture backfired, underlining the sappiness of the play's conclusion.
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It's also an incredibly touching flick, and not without it's fair share of sappiness.
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But then Dany decides she likes Drogo and that whole "sun and stars" sappiness starts.
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"The power of friendship" suggests something much hokier, I realize, but the show earns the inherent sappiness of the phrase.
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This is ultimately a play about the balm of friendship, and there's not a whiff of sappiness or condescension to it.
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Like its predecessors, the book is a mystical love story free of the sappiness and cliché we normally associate with those types of tales.
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The Fast and Furious movies have always served up ridiculous action with a big, heaping side of sappiness, but Fate takes things in a darker direction that doesn't entirely feel earned.
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That's refreshing, so it's a pity that the remainder of "Aurum," right in tune with the insipid Muzak of the Ludovico Einaudi recordings Ms. Topp has chosen, increasingly sinks into sappiness.
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Jasper Gahunia and William Lamoureux, playing an impressive assortment of electronic and amplified instruments on one side of the stage, occasionally accent the action with distortion but keep snapping back into sappiness.
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The film is worth praising for what it is and admiring for what it's not — there's no sappiness or false emotion, and none of the clichéd, quirky misfits who populate so many commercial comedies.
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Mr. Fleming's gesture is clearly heartfelt, but in a film that avoids the sappiness so frequently reserved for gay domesticity in popular entertainment, it is the one sentimental sleight of hand that gives the game away.
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That's probably why my ex and I couldn't stop singing the lyrics to "1950," which are bold, sentimental, and self-aware of their own sappiness, much like my infatuation with her at the beginning of our relationship.
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And even when it leans out perilously into sentimentality, it's reeled back from the edge by the fact that its two central characters are from Northern Ireland, and can't let anything get too far down the path of sappiness.
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Violent images have appeared in a number of her paintings, but within a context of humor or irony or inspired sappiness that neutralizes the shock—her self-eaters clearly suffer no pain when they bite off a finger or two.
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Two years ago, the film adaptation of E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey was released in theaters, bringing to life the first book in a poorly written trilogy that had recently awakened a very specific American desire: one that lives in the space where bondage, sappiness, doofiness, stalking, wealth, abs, and independent book publishing meet.
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His criticism centered on "Ballerina" for its mawkishness and lack of interest in some of the faster songs. Meanwhile, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic retrospectively gave Dancing on the Ceiling four out of five stars, summarizing that, overall, the album was "a solid, enjoyable affair". He considered, however, it a "comedown" after Richie's previous albums, with its songs generally longer than necessary and the lyrics mixing "silliness ... and sappiness".
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" He also wrote that "the best stuff involves the childhood preamble. (The young actors playing Jenna, Matt, and Lucy are terrific.) Those moments feel painfully, comically true." Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, commenting, "This romantic comedy is intended as a cautionary fairy tale. The silly humor works with the movie's gentle message of self- empowerment and avoids sappiness in a tender interlude where the adult Jenna returns to her childhood home.
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It also expanded Marge's character in a pleasing way, as it avoided any semblance of sappiness; we needed a break from sentiment after 'Old Money'. Overall, 'Brush with Greatness' provided a terrific episode." The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote: "A superb episode, with Marge rightfully centre stage. Despite his general unpleasantness, Mr. Burns' gratitude to Marge is both welcome and unexpected.
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Later works of Karabakhi, saving a mastery of ancient decorative paintings are distinguished for growth of realistic features in interpretation of distinct graphic motifs. A picture drawn by him in the house of Mehmandarov in Shusha city, where images of deer and pomegranate tree are distinguished for their free interpretation and sappiness of forms, is the most famous picture of the artist. The artist created on the basis of both earlier developed canonized schemes and immediate observations.
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The film has received mixed reviews. A Los Angeles Times review noted that as the film's writer/director/actor Chi Muoi Lo "spread himself too thin, resulting in an uneven picture but one that has plenty of substance and emotion". Roger Ebert wrote that the film was "a first draft for a movie that could have been extraordinary". The San Francisco Chronicle noted that the film was "a comedy of interracial wariness and misunderstanding marked by a refreshing lack of sappiness".
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Heartless Bitches International is a humorous website primarily targeted at women. It was started as a joke in 1996 by Ottawa, Canada, software developer "Natalie P", satirizing the stereotype that all assertive, strong women are "heartless bitches". It is now a repository of thousands of articles, primarily dealing with the expectations and stereotypes that society tries to enforce on men and women, the problems they cause, and how to overcome them. The website particularly rejects "sappiness" and women considered excessively emotional.
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"All I Ask" was well received by most music critics. Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe called it a "whopper of an 11 o'clock number" that transitions from "plaintive" to "soaring". Writing for PopMatters, Chris Gerard called the song a "showstopping highlight" and a "gorgeous ballad", describing Adele's vocal performance as "absolutely thrilling", but noted that it "[has] a little of that sappiness that often infects love ballads". The New York Times Jon Caramanica listed "All I Ask" as the fifth best song of 2015.
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Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C, with Owen Gleiberman describing it as "a hymn to sappiness". CNN's Paul Clinton dismissed the remake as a "schmaltzy" and "vapid" version of Wings of Desire. The Washington Posts Michael O'Sullivan dismissed it as "a mawkish debasement of its source material", asking "When will Hollywood learn to leave well enough alone?" Michael Wilmington gave it two and a half stars in The Chicago Tribune, enjoying the appearance of the film but concluding it feels "forced and mechanically weepy".
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Brad Garrett was praised by critics for his performance. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 51%, based on 41 reviews, with the site's critical consensus reading, "A meandering, mindless family movie that frequently resorts to special effects and transparent sappiness." On Metacritic the film has a score of 49% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A on scale of A to F. Time Out London described it as "an intimate and likeable film".
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Roxanne received an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews, with the consensus being: "Though its sweetness borders on sappiness, Roxanne is an unabashedly romantic comedy that remains one of Steve Martin's funniest".Rotten Tomatoes Roger Ebert hailed the film as a "gentle, whimsical comedy", giving it a 3 and half stars of four, also stating: "What makes "Roxanne" so wonderful is not this fairly straightforward comedy, however, but the way the movie creates a certain ineffable spirit".Roger Ebert review of Roxanne It is number #71 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
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The Shizzi-produced track "Gbagbe Oshi" contains lyrics recorded in pidgin, Yoruba and patois; it has a muscular beat with two significant drum breaks. The contemporary highlife track "Maga 2 Mugu" features guest vocals by Simi; Chiagoziem of Filter Free Nigeria praised Simi for bringing "calm and sappiness to Davido's hyperactivity and directness". The Spellz-produced track "How Long" contains elements of Afropop and soulful house music. In the Afrobeats-infused trap song "Coolest Kid in Africa", Davido exchanges bars with South African rapper Nasty C and brags about how saving money isn't part of his vocabulary.
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"Given the abundant potential for missteps into sappiness with this sort of premise," Justin Chang wrote in Variety, "what's notable here is the lack of sentimentality in Lee's approach. At no point does Poetry devolve into a terminal-illness melodrama or a tale of intergenerational bonding." Chang continued by noting how Lee's background as a novelist sometimes shows through, and that "[t]here are longueurs here... that could be trimmed, though overall this absorbing film feels considerably shorter than its 139 minutes." It was included in CNN's list of top ten best movies of 2011, and Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips named Poetry his favorite film of 2011.
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" He added, "Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy."The New York Times Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: "A coming-of-age piece that is slight to the point of anemia, "Unstrung Heroes" sports a willful eccentricity that almost immediately becomes annoying. Diane Keaton's debut dramatic feature aims for a distinctively offbeat tone that never really gels and the movie's emotional power, stemming from personal growth through family tragedy, falls short of the goal as well."Variety In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called Unstrung Heroes "a warm, surprising, gently incandescent film . . .
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Shine is Luna Sea's best-selling studio album; it reached number one on the Oricon chart,LUNA SEAのアルバム売り上げランキング Retrieved 2011-04-24 sold over 1 million copies and was certified Million by the RIAJ. It was also named "Rock Album of the Year" at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards. Alexey Eremenko of AllMusic called the album one of the band's best, along with 1994's Mother, and referred to it as "hard rock without the machismo, sentimentality without the sappiness, and melody without the one- dimensional attitude of pop music." The songs vary from "speedy numbers to power ballads and midtempo marches" but all are equally convincing.
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Keaton switched the story's setting from the New York of Lidz's book to the Southern California of her own childhood, and the four mad uncles were reduced to a whimsical odd couple.Undone Heroes, 09.18.95 - New York magazine In an essay for The New York Times, Lidz said that the cinematic Selma had died not of cancer, but of "Old Movie Disease". "Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy."In a Higher State of Being (That Is, Dying), 01.10.99 - The New York Times Unstrung Heroes played in a relatively limited release and made little impression at the box office, but the film and its direction were generally well-received critically.
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After relaying to the Bears the fact that she was wandering alone in the forest and got lost, Goldilocks – in an homage to MGM's The Wizard of Oz moves in until such time as everybody can figure out how to get her back home. The Bobcat however has been eavesdropping at the Bears' window and is about ready to throw up at all the sappiness – not to mention the fact that Goldilocks – cub or not – is still a human and therefore not to be trusted in the forest. He runs back to a clearing where he gathers all manner of other forest animals and proceeds to convince them, by his decidedly skewered viewpoint, that Goldilocks does not belong in the forest. The easily swayed animals agree to assist Bobcat.
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The episode was well received by many reviewers, though some were not as happy with it. The enthusiastic ones cited the combination of humor and tears, past events and present revelation, while those who were more critical felt there was not enough time to wrap up all the storylines or that it strayed into sappiness. Particular praise was given to the scene with Burt and Kurt Hummel that featured the former's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" number, which was the favorite performance of the reviewers, and the scene when Finn tells Rachel he's sending her to New York instead of marrying her, which was described as Monteith's and Michele's best acting on the show. Monteith was also praised for his solo in the song "You Get What You Give", and Michele's rendition of "Roots Before Branches" received even higher marks.
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