"These were concentrated without being clunky or cloying," A.J. said.
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In part the problem is a cloying, saltwater taffy tone.
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With its high acidity level, pomegranate molasses never gets cloying.
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But I agree with John and Seth that it feels cloying.
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It's still sickly sweet but earnest, almost cloying in its transparency.
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"You're only as old as you feel" is a cloying platitude.
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Making hip hop cloying, one brand shout out at a time.
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The sticky toffee pudding, though a touch cloying, hit the spot.
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She tries to establish firmer boundaries with her cloying mother, Shelley.
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It adds a fudgy bite but isn't the least bit cloying.
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Alternatively, critics found "Jack Frost" (1998) to be cloying and nonsensical.
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Wu sips her own drink, a cloying cranberry concoction, and seems pleased.
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I hated the maudlin, cloying promos that insisted we would feel something.
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Some, like Jameela Jameel, even overcompensate to the point that it's cloying.
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The slightly sweet, cloying fragrance of rotting foliage hung in the air.
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Maybe cloying voices with no burr on them make you feel swaddled.
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"Who Says" has good intentions, but it's muddled by juvenile, cloying lyrics.
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But especially in recent years, it has become, on occasion, a bit cloying.
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The whole place heavy with the cloying sweetness of industrial strength air-freshener.
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The fragrance is gently floral, like a pink perfume, but not too cloying.
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It's also not cloying or condescending in trying to teach you a lesson.
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The effect is cloying and exhausting, like an award show's In Memoriam segment.
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Valentine's Day is kind of nice, but it's mostly a cloying, capitalist nightmare.
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Blended drinks went through a cloying, hangover-inducing, decidedly dark phase in history.
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After that, though, there's a mellowing sweetness, pleasant but in no way cloying.
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Her story-lines are predictable, the suspense minimal, the sentimentality cloying every page.
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The cheese is light and fresh, without being cloying or needing much sugar.
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Surprisingly, none of the cloying gourd flavor made its way into my hit.
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In later pieces, that has hardened into schtick that I usually find cloying.
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The specificity of the performances also helps prevent the cultivated tone from cloying.
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Such a perspective could so easily lean toward smirky voyeurism or cloying cuteness.
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Foster's charm is not cloying; it's as clear and unaffected as her complexion.
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The North Korean propaganda music was a constant, cloying backdrop to the work.
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The conclusion is worth not giving away, but it's heartwarming without being cloying.
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Maisel to name but a few — that are earnest without being cloying or toothless.
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The film sometimes affects a cloying, cutesy tone that may turn off some viewers.
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He is squeaky clean and prone to moralise, but not in a cloying way.
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It's cute without being cloying, and it supplies a few giggles in the process.
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Not the cloying, overly sweet, one-dimensional, too-thick, porridge-like generic carrot soup.
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In this episode, I have to admit he's right...although still cloying and smug.
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Perhaps it's an honor to record holiday music less cloying than one's own songs.
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Tallie's quirky best friend doesn't feel like the annoying, cloying, quirky friends in many stories.
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I'm no Sheeran fan, and I find most of his music cloying and ickily sentimental.
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Like the citrus, tamarind's sharpness cuts through the potentially cloying aspects of all the sugar.
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So is Raphael Alejandro as Hugo, who's sweet and winsome and precocious without being cloying.
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Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film "noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous."
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But La La Land always feel emotionally direct and natural, rather than cloying, playful or cute.
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The segments are also cloying and annoying—and our preview from Apple doesn't look any better.
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Perhaps best, both shows mix comedy and sentimentality without falling into the trap of feeling cloying.
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If Fleabag were played by a more conventional actress, her spiral might feel cloying or gimmicky.
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Allowing the digital seams to show, they make ambiguous works that are both critical and cloying.
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Another Cirque curse, since we're on the subject, is an oft-derided affection for cloying whimsy.
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That may be the difference between a wine that is cloying and one that is refreshing.
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Those sorts of films can often be cloying and, to put it bluntly, not that great.
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His performance at times gets cloying and pushy, like an overeager canvasser buttonholing you for votes.
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OCEANS OF CLOYING chai; coils of sticky jalebi—Indians cannot get enough of the sweet stuff.
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She is not the cloying pious woman we're used to seeing needle June and her heretic ways.
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Or, it at least means finding a way to cover up whatever cloying perfume your roommate uses.
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All this could be cloying, were it not for the pickled cauliflower resetting your palate for more.
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Even hardcore conservatives still stewing over the shabby defenestration of Robert Bork find Cruz cloying and unctuous.
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Another misfire was a gorgeous lobe of burrata compromised by dull, cooked beets and cloying grape syrup.
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Both smell overpoweringly of disinfectant, but this does not entirely cover the cloying smell of the corpses.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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While not as cloying as the bad Lambruscos of old, it gave the undeniable impression of sweetness.
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Many recipes include sugar (alongside Grand Marnier, amaretto and other cloying concoctions) in the egg-milk mixture.
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Where are the ticker-tape parades, the gaudy trophies, the commemorative T-shirts, the cloying mayoral speeches?
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That's clear in many of Divide's reviews, which highlight the cloying and shallow elements of Sheeran's music.
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It's a song that breaks every songwriting rule, and its cloying romanticism all but verboten in punk.
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It didn't completely vanquish the pasta, but it gave the dish an oily, fatty quality that was cloying.
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There wasn't much—just surface-level blog posts with cloying resolutions and cursory links to mental health sites.
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It also adds emotional stakes to the comfortable domesticity of her world, which prevents it from getting cloying.
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The cloying commercials for My Buddy, the toy doll released by Hasbro back in 1985, had entranced me.
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Pine-Sol, or maybe that cloying pine scent that car air freshener companies seem to think people like.
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But white, boiled sausages, full of egg white, served with cloying sweet mustard and colon-stopping white bread?
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There was warmth, yes, but none of that cloying affection that our Anglo neighbors had for their pets.
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But Ms. Worsham deftly ensures that there's nothing cloying or condescending to the Asperger's elements of the play.
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While sipping a horribly cloying margarita, I broke the bad news to Anna, my 5 ½-year-old daughter.
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He conveys the smooth and slightly cloying folksiness of someone who has been around a lot of politicians.
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They are puffy and sentimental, the cinematic equivalent of a cloying dessert following an otherwise well-prepared meal.
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These performers cut through the swelling music and sometimes cloying earnestness to put across some valuable emotional truths.
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When he joined our small company, we all welcomed him with enthusiasm, despite his initial cloying, overzealous demeanor.
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Fried cauliflower in a sweet, sticky paprika sauce served as D.I.Y. bao buns is cloying and oddly unfun.
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It was full of clichés, it was much too morally conservative, it featured ridiculous clothing and cloying dialogue.
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Even the phrase "Year of the Woman" and its cloying sister "the pink wave" arguably stigmatize female politicians.
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Church's honey-butter biscuit showed what a sweet biscuit should be — not the cloying blight of the Boberry.
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The result is a cloying bite of sweet with a touch of sour and a hint of existential despair.
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They may taste dry and cloying as shit, but these candies are deeply sewn into America's shared gastronomic consciousness.
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Bodies are spun among one another in a cloying, ecstatic bind that is as violent as it is beautiful.
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Under a sweltering sun and cloying humidity in Tapachula, the river marks the point where Mexico and Guatemala meet.
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I was especially impressed with their pinot gris, a grape that seems particularly susceptible in Alsace to cloying heaviness.
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All that's eventually left is two piles of dust, bits of which are sprinkled together for a cloying ending.
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MoviePass has been struggling all year, and this mildly bizarre attempt at a cute stopgap feels unusually cloying and diversionary.
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All marketing talk and cloying positivity aside, in the end you get to talk to a seemingly nice, interested person.
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It's umami, slightly sweet, slightly salty, creamy but not cloying, and—oh sod it—I'd say he's achieved his aim.
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While Juno was praised for its story and performances, it was also mocked for dialogue that was deemed too cloying.
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Her performance is still an impressive balancing act: sweet without being cloying, innocent without being dumb, vulnerable and yet steely.
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The upbeat, radio-friendly "ME!" is cloying and juvenile while the overproduced "Bad Blood" doesn't deliver the punch it intended.
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As it cooks, it turns soft and syrupy, but never cloying, thanks to its own brisk acidity and some lemons.
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These wines are indisputably sweet, but the acidity cleans away any cloying sensation, leaving a dry, refreshing feeling after swallowing.
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This Australian cartoon is geared toward preschoolers and is one of the sweetest — but not cloying — kid shows in ages.
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It's an action-adventure game with plenty of gameplay quirks supporting a colorful, twee (but not cloying) world and story.
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It's a cloying and misunderstood singular noun, one that can be spoken aloud by sane people only with ironic intent.
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But by giving an out to those who want the movie to have a "more realistic" climax — after all, maybe Giles is just lying to himself, and by extension us, about what happened to his best friend — The Shape of Water avoids seeming overly cloying and sentimental, while simultaneously being really cloying and sentimental.
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Some parents find him cloying and others are thankful he keeps their children rapt and teaches them a thing or two.
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The stories have a tinge of sentimentality that sometimes shades into something more cloying, but Mr. Evers knows his characters well.
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Or was he perhaps saying that all too often 21st century spirituality had become disposable, cloying and full of hot air?
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Sex appeal, whether aggressive, cloying, or anything inbetween, has always been a part of hip-hop, and popular music in general.
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This strategy is a little cloying, and opens the book to the charges leveled by n+1 at Eggers in 2004.
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C.K. announced the end of the series with his signature voice in a missive that was both blasé and deeply cloying.
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However, when the teens start hooking up as a defense against their parents' cloying flirtation, Julia and James are understandably horrified.
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The filling was too sweet — to the point of being cloying — which meant I was unable to finish the entire slice.
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What keeps the scent from becoming cloying is a generous base of hay, which smells like salted butter and sweet grass.
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Though many bits, like a Pierrot encounter with the moon, are delightfully imaginative, others cross the whimsy line and become cloying.
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That's when the acidity and bitterness of grapefruit is precisely what makes it so appealing, especially in confections that lean cloying.
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"Mountain of the Sun," a textured reprieve from cloying talk of apocalypse, builds the energy expected from a few twenty-somethings.
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The majority of seaweed salads I get with my sushi are cloying and damp, lacking the mineral zing of fresh kelp.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece, closing on July 29, as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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That said, given the cloying nature of Dee Dee's persona, watching does begin to feel like a bit of an ordeal.
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The result meshes popcorn sensibilities and personal sentiments in a way that never feels cloying or like it's trying too hard.
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While we've been joylessly gorging on shallow-deep-house and dry, cloying EDM, what have Donny and co been up to?
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I guess that I find them annoying and cloying, and part of that is that I maybe just don't believe them.
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And it's what many parents, beaten down to various degrees by the sobering realities of the world, found so goddamn cloying.
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What keeps it from getting cloying are its sense of humor (Octavia Spencer gets in some particularly good lines) and its smarts.
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This inevitably leads to a slightly cloying and hoary theatrical self-consciousness, with Christopher bossing around the performers of his mini-memoir.
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Played with folksiness by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, the doting parents are lived-in, where they easily could have become cloying.
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The cloying, ethnically ambiguous troll "Zan" ridicules Paper Boi, both as a drug dealer and a rapper, with online videos and memes.
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So, when those things are cloying and the pressures are the greatest there, I feel like it's really interesting and relevant stories.
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It's a cloying sensation, the off-putting suspicion that your own crushing sense of disempowerment is being exploited to sell you soap.
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Deep down the pair of you know that this is nothing more than a bond of nostalgia at its most rankly cloying.
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Ditto Emma Watson, whose black cigarette pants/strapless white poppy-print Osman dress combination was both cool and practical without being cloying.
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The sauce on the boneless spare ribs wasn't as sticky and cloying as it is at many Chinese restaurants, a refreshing change.
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Ms. Monheit is more like a cosmopolitan with an extra splash of cranberry: ruby-hued, smooth, right on the edge of cloying.
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Beverages were self-serve — we tried the Cockta soda, a citrusy, less cloying version of Dr Pepper, and thick Croatian pear juice.
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Because these grapes come with ample supplies of natural acidity, which allows even the sweetest wines to be refreshing rather than cloying.
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Do what you&aposre good atWhen it comes to career advice, I personally find "follow your passion" a little cloying and naive.
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Together, these two could make a dish cloying, unless you stop them with a jolt of acid and a smack of heat.
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And early movie adaptations, directed by men and catering to social norms of virtuous, self-sacrificing womanhood, rendered Marmee cloying and flat.
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What wasn't cloying in that finale on Sunday was the music — the orchestra swirling and shining, the chorus rich and full-bodied.
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Some claim white pepper is milder, but I find it can be cloying and overpowering, and prefer it in very small doses.
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This exceptional life, however, is smothered by a cloying fairy tale romance that turns every challenge the couple faces into a lark.
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You can expect angry and fatuous tweeting and weird personal touches, as in the remarkable, cloying letter to Mr Kim of May 24th.
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They offer tax abatements, $1 land leases, and produce cloying videos to prove that they, alone, are the hardest working of the bunch.
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An assortment of Twix, Snickers, those cloying sweet instant coffees, and a random assortment of cookies that she had collected during the week.
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It's a cloying look at the origins of her online retail business which had its heyday in the early days of e-commerce.
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My father's blackened cod, which was wonderfully enlivened by a topping of mango-pepper salsa, was also deluged with a cloying passionfruit sauce.
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The more cloying scenes of the pair's guitar playing and dancing could easily have fit into the Miramax back catalog of the 1990s.
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If anything, the best American rosés today are exactly what one would want: brisk and refreshing, subtle and savory, never cloying or fatiguing.
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This Stella ad is too painfully self-conscious, too obviously a cloying nostalgia grab, to make the Dude's return anything less than awkward.
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The seven von Trapp children, several of whom will be switched out over the course of the run, were adorable without being cloying.
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Isn't musical theater by its very nature artificial and cloying, a sad relic of the '50s holding on well past its expiration date?
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I arrived in Bangkok around midnight, after a seemingly interminable flight, and the temperature was unbelievably hot, the air was cloying and steamy.
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At other times, a cloying style gets the better of him as we learn a little too much about the author's parenting skills.
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But there was something about that idealized vision of the cocoon that seemed contrived; was it also cloying, or confining, or implicitly fragile?
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But there are other, less cloying options, like saving the milk for the next time you crave Thai iced tea or dirty horchata.
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At night, away from the city center, a couple of tourists celebrating their wedding at a divey cafe was not cloying, but charming.
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Exhuming old cultural totems is risky: Overdo the nostalgia, and it becomes cloying; ignore the show's legacy, and core fans might rebuke it.
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This can be interpreted as alternately nurturing and solicitous, or cloying and suffocating, a dynamic often replicated between parents and their adolescent children.
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But because malted milk powder is made with heaps of sugar, there's only so much one can add before the mixture turns cloying.
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Those NuvaRing commercials where a gaggle of girl pals trades info about insertion and ease of use come off cloying and cliche, but … man.
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The long, slow shots mentioned above are one of these, but more egregious is its insistence on punctuating big moments with cloying needle drops.
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" Some even adopted Lawrence's uncompromising and cloying self-defense: that the "sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions.
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Unless you live for the cloying swamp heat of a humid summer, ACs and fans are some of your most important tools for comfort.
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Its cloying, cakey perfume had reminded her of her mother, she supposed, though she'd taken it out only once or twice to sniff it.
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Remove whatever cloying teenage feelings you have towards it and Up the Bracket is a painful reminder of just how static things had got.
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It's a pity that the omakase ends with unagi in a sauce as cloying and perfunctory as at any middling sushi bar across America.
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Written and directed by Noble Jones, "The Tomorrow Man" is a cloying, at times disturbing tale of two dotty seniors whose eccentricities unexpectedly mesh.
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Red beets can be almost cloying here, but if they're all you have, squeeze on some extra lime juice to offset the added sweetness.
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It is a debate, wrapped in cloying melodrama, over whether a particular land border should be used to check the quality of imported pork.
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"The espresso is there to marry the grappa and the Snickers," he adds; its bitterness complements the cloying candy sweetness and the alcohol's heat.
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On the show, "Uncle Fluffy" is how the characters refer to President Bartlet's chronic and cloying desire to be liked and appear affable in public.
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The pungent odor of decomposing kombucha leather, the acrid tang of burning paper, or the cloying sweetness of deep-fried flowers wafts through the halls.
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I saw Baby Nut, Planters' cloying attempt at beating Baby Yoda, and I scoffed; I went to the Cheetos Fashion Show and deemed it dumb.
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But, thinking about it with nothing more than cloying, fond nostalgia completely neglects the huge influence the genre has had on British culture at large.
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"That would be cloying if it weren't for the acidity of the yellow and black," he said, pointing to the photograph intruding at the bottom.
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Perhaps I had been scarred by harsh industrial versions, and the cloying knockoffs of balsamic vinegar that had somehow kept showing up in my kitchen.
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That's even before she appears in Sandy's room, or perhaps her dreams, that night, asserting a cloying control over Sandy and literally devouring her drawings.
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The jingles that played at kick-off, when time was almost up, when you scored a goal courtesy of said ridiculous curl: cheap, cloying, annoying.
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It is a psychic refuge from a terrible world, and somehow it never once either becomes cloying or falls into the trap of easy cynicism.
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And because these bars are less cloying than commercial peppermint patties, I can eat more of them before my teeth start to ache — an added bonus.
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Pan-seared day boat scallops, while nicely undercooked, would have rated higher had its overly cheesy bed of risotto (also dense with butter) been less cloying.
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The breaking of conventions (addressing the camera, graphic sexual references, sleeping with a priest) was tediously conventional; the sentimentality, particularly about a pet hamster, was cloying….
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Results showcases those quavers and cracks impeccably, with the PSB production—all MIDI-rococo and hyper-unreality—buttressing the whole thing in a knowingly cloying manner.
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Maybe this is all the world needs: a more open and loving relationship with its darkest urges, brought out by the cloying strings of the Populele.
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Her commander is the rather cloying, militaristic dudebro Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), who tells her the key to controlling her powers is by containing her emotions.
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But like that speech, which could so easily have gone in a cloying, sentimental direction, it manages to be nice without losing sight of harsh reality.
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The innocence of the children can be cloying—they plot to release butterflies inside the parliament building—but the end of that innocence is vividly evoked.
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While most white chocolate falls victim to cloying sweetness, the Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme bar heads it off with a truly generous amount of cookie pieces.
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But Della — like "The Cake" itself, if you can get past its cloying elements — is nevertheless trying to grapple with something quite complex for a comedy.
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Maybe Juster's earnest, mildly subversive playfulness, which dipped a toe or two into the brewing countercultural energies of the early '60s, has turned cloying with age?
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The book's texts about the "journey with flowers" can be cloying, but are rich in plant names like ninebark, quaking grass, chocolate cosmos and cow soapwort.
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Though her voice was sometimes lost in the large theater and her high notes sometimes squeezed, Ms. Bullock made her saintly character sincere without being cloying.
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Zhu is a pro at marrying sweet with savory, glazing the meat subtly enough so that you taste the beef rather than just a cloying sauce.
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Burger King Buffalo sauce is neither spicy enough nor buttery enough, and the flavor profile is instead dominated by a cloying mayo-like taste and consistency.
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Through modern advances in waterproofing, four young women have brought their telephones with them into the pool, fending off a potentially cloying surplus of timeless splendor.
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Moreover, some aspects of tolerance culture, particularly the actions of students—who frequently draw the ire of such culture warriors—are, in many cases, cloying and precious.
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Of all the types of candy that are consumed during its observance, perhaps none is as controversial as the humble, cloying little triangles known as candy corn.
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The inevitable steps toward mourning and rejoining the human race are hard, but also cloying, because they come wrapped in such naked fantasies about reverting to childhood.
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For a pie, an adventurous cook might roast a supermarket pumpkin, which can be stringy, cloying and low on the thick, voluminous flesh inside an heirloom variety.
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They surrounded him with the cloying odor of failure, a smell that followed him to all sevens teams he played for, in roles of gradually diminishing importance.
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They aren't particularly good: the wafers are rather sandy — not crisp, as promised on the iconic yellow packaging — and the imitation vanilla-flavored cream filling is cloying.
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But several recent plays, including Clare Barron's acclaimed "Dance Nation" and the current Roundabout Underground offering "Usual Girls," by Ming Peiffer, have ditched the usual cloying tropes.
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Created by Justin Grill based off his Bachan's (aka Granny's) recipe, this small-batch sauce is bold without the cloying sweetness you find in some BBQ varieties.
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In any case, the narrative, read by John Krasinski, is kid-friendly in a cloying sort of way, and unpleasant realities like China's pollution are not mentioned.
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Out of Reid's often cloying vernacular, then, emerge some surprisingly resonant insights into the casual racism in everyday life, especially in the America of the liberal elite.
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Others faulted Lady Gaga, who plays the main role, for giving speeches on the awards trail (the Globes, National Board of Review) that struck them as cloying.
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The Office kept a light touch with Brent, switching away to other plots when his professed ignorance got too cloying, or delivering comeuppance when he strayed too far.
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Spiritual successor Bloodborne borrowed this constant, cloying ambiguity for its own cast of characters, filling the world with people who were out to save their own skin first.
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"Hey," Reese's Pieces says, in that sort of semi-cloying actually-quite-patronizing voice, grabbing a small soft piece of your sleeve and rubbing it between its fingers.
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Today, as I write this, photographers and fans are swarming around the entrance of the Grand Hyatt Hotel Martinez, all cloying to get a shot of Kim Kardashian.
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The flavors are funky, crisp and acidic, and usually bone dry — nothing like the cloying, over-carbonated ciders you too often find on tap in the United States.
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Neither ailment interferes with a host of cloying incidents, as when John drives off without Ella, forcing her to take a ride on a motorcycle to catch up.
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In 2011, James Wood, a Briton himself and The New Yorker's house critic, saw provincialism at work in the overrefinement and cloying nostalgia of writers like Alan Hollinghurst.
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Best of all, it was resolutely fresh, with lively acidity, which made the wine entirely refreshing, unlike some Sauternes, which can seem cloying because they lack balancing acidity.
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Karukoski's sensitive direction, which only occasionally gives way to cloying melodrama, offers a perfect platform for actor Pekka Strang to showcase his impressive range in the lead role.
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When you buy this faux-exclusive food-garbage, you fuel the fire that keeps square flavor scientists vying to force-feed you more desperate, cloying, chemically laden snack trends.
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The portion size was also right on point for an entrée, enough to warm my stomach and fully activate my taste buds, but not too much to be cloying.
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Taiwanese pop music and television — garish, cheerful and cloying — has long been popular in China, as has the South Korean K-pop music that Ms. Chou and Twice sing.
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Fried broccoli is about as crisp as fried broccoli can get, but it's supposed to be swiped in yuzu-kosho curd that is too cloying; it needs more spice.
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Edwards thinks that smells could change the world, but before they do, Cyrano just needs to do a better job of changing the cloying, tropical stink in my office.
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Vision 2030 was mentioned by name, and its buzzwords were so present and cloying that it felt as obvious as when the announcers plug KFC or Starburst between matches.
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Finally, there was cloying sentimentality — presumably the big Thanksgiving dinner we saw took place in the same dewy spirit world the "Lost" folks reunited in a few years back.
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I barely recall Liam Neeson's quest for water in Fallout 3 or Fallout 4's intrigue around synthetic humans, and—god help me—the Minutemen's obnoxious and cloying quests.
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Nevertheless, her narration, like that of her siblings, is weighed down by repetitions, long descriptions and digressions — on food, mainly — and a cloying sensibility that may alienate some readers.
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Kinan Azmeh's "Ibn Arabi Postlude" was six languid minutes; Edward Perez's cloying Spanish arrangements, "Latina 6/8 Suite," got a dose of aggressive merriment from Cristina Pato's Galician bagpipes.
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Her first few releases leaned into the cloying sounds of bubblegum pop, but her latest effort, released this month, explores her darker side through industrial and nu-metal influences.
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By dispensing with the cloying, 10,000-foot-high patriotism that typically bloats political memoirs, Franken reveals his main objective: appearing relentlessly authentic, even if that means becoming dangerously risqué.
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Even his resignation letter was filled with cloying sycophancy: My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people.
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Frances said when she's choosing a scent or perfume on set, she has to be careful about it because she doesn't want to wear anything too overpowering or too cloying.
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Even if the racial dynamic wasn't grotesque and a tired cliché (Charlotte is white, Mr. Church is black), the entire story would still be obnoxious, cloying, and dull as hell.
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Ty dispensed with the cloying chivalry of commercial R. & B., and zeroed in on the routine of seducing women and rejecting them with the swift coldness of a kicking horse.
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From there, we went to Cafe Romeo, where, Mr. Butoln said, Ms. Trump drank sodas and he drank wine mixed with Cockta, a cloying Tito-era version of Coca-Cola.
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There are unexplained miscarriages; cloying perfumes; boys with lashless and red-rimmed eyes; little girls speaking in voices that are not their own; mysterious sicknesses that modern medicine cannot cure.
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We met up at Diversity Plaza, an accurate, if cloying, name for the pedestrianized block of 37th Road I mentioned earlier, in the South Asian business district of Jackson Heights.
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Give an even wider berth to fluke in a cloying honey glaze plated with bitter grapefruit and little pucks of daikon radish braised for too little time in orange juice.
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Likely this has to do with the preference of Isabella Rossellini — who conceived, co-directed and performs this piece about animals' thoughts and communications — for surreal humor over cloying sentimentality.
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The men I treat overwhelmingly talk about either nonfiction titles with subjects I find dull — politics or business — or light, funny books about fatherhood that I tend to find cloying.
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As for Lee, it's entirely possible she was cognizant of how bad Watchman was, and wanted it released to help tear down the cloying myth that Atticus Finch had become.
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On the first day of arguments, the court was also presented with a thesis-length stream of cloying texts sent from Carter to Roy's mother, Lynn, after her son's death.
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And he's game but less inspired on a pair of marquee duets, with Cyndi Lauper ("Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," chirpy, cloying) and Sheryl Crow ("Embraceable You," a satiny snooze).
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It's actually consumed year-round in its native Senegal, but since the flavor profile fits what we consider seasonal stateside, it's the perfect less-cloying alternative to your average peppermint latte.
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David can be difficult and his love story a tad cloying, but the series strengthens as it progresses, and as you get to know more of Aubrey Plaza's deliciously depraved Lenny.
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It may also seem easy to give in to the pre-wrapped, mass-produced black and whites at deli cash registers, but don't: They're a setup to a cloying, oversweet headache.
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There's the show's cloying need to remind the audience, constantly, through cinematographic fourth wall breaks that this is a show and this is taking place on a set, to unknown effect.
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The latter sonic ingredient offers one example of how a seamless if cloying aural blanket has been ripped apart, punctured with metal knitting needles, and left spoiled without a repair strategy.
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Losing that manufactured kind of darkness—the cloying angst of Nine Inch Nails, the black lipstick, the thrilling disturbance of the "Smack My Bitch Up" video—is like losing one's innocence.
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Paz Vega pops up to play some guitar; Prairie eats a bird; people dance well enough to effectively stop a school shooting (an incredibly exasperating and cloying climax to the series).
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Making nostalgic French pop that isn't overwhelmingly cloying is a feat in itself, but the Montreal singer-songwriter Josie Boivin, who records under the name Munya, has even more to offer.
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From the makers of Air Bud and Air Buddies comes a movie with a premise so absurd that the cloying, catchy songs actually come out the other side and become wonderful.
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Michael Klug, the chocolatier and pastry chef, has turned to seasonal apricots, berries and rhubarb, among others, to create tall, colorful summer coolers that are fresh-tasting, light and not cloying.
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And in order to marry a potentially cloying and sentimental parable to a balls-out satirical exercise, Waititi turns to the most sacred of figures in our cultural imagination: the child.
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The ambience has to be friendly but not intrusive, the sound level low but not funereal, the smell a little greasy but not cloying, and the décor more utilitarian than fussy.
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At first it plays like a fairly conventional satire, emphasizing all the cloying, familiar tropes of ads for anti-allergy drugs, including a voiceover that lists increasingly dire-sounding side effects.
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I assumed there was no way an adult man on trial for three charges of aggravated indecent assault would, upon leaving the courtroom for the day, do something so gross and cloying.
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All four of her New York shows are sold out (tickets are available from resellers), evidence that her similarly preoccupied peers have found musical catharsis in her cheery but never cloying songs.
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Basically, whether you find a TV or book protagonist's inner monologuing cloying and unrealistic or merely a dramatization of the average person probably depends on how (and if) you talk to yourself.
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It's quirky without being cloying, almost impossible not to fall in love with every single character, and features some of the weirdest, most joyful death-related visual effects I have ever seen.
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Netflix's Lovesick (née Scrotal Recall), which is now in its third season, has quietly delivered a rich tapestry of the emotion we humans call love, without being cloying, needlessly dramatic, or entirely implausible.
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At any rate, NYFVCA is a lot like the other Smalltown Brewery offerings—surprisingly delicious, with very little if any traditional beer flavor, and a sugary formula that gets cloying in a hurry.
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It's the type of line could have come off as cloying and cutesy–a sign that Chance was doubling down on the almost-too-wholesome family values side of his previous guest spots.
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And it keeps pulling us out of Mr. Sorey's hypnotic textures and tempos, making the piece — at 90 minutes already too long, with a particularly unwieldy, cloying late instrumental interlude — feel even longer.
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If occasionally the theatricality of the clothes became overly cloying, and you wished for a streamlined techno-clad surfer dude to show up (or perhaps Jack Sparrow), they still had an alluring prettiness.
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In her recent review in The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum panned the series, saying that she found it equally cloying and impenetrable, like an angel food cake covered in a hard fondant shell.
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Books of The Times The most cloying American artist of the 20th century was almost certainly Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012), whose popular paintings depicted what seemed to be well-lighted houses for elves.
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It's deeply personal but never cloying, precisely because of how soberly Martin conveys the mental and physiological toll of the events, even as he stretches time into strange, hallucinatory configurations for the listener.
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Kara, whose plot revolves around rescuing and caring for her adoptive daughter Alice, is pigeonholed into cloying maternal behavior, the only respectable direction, apparently, in which an android woman may transgress her bounds.
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At the center is a relationship of cloying codependency as Iona (Lily Newmark), a pale-faced teenager, and her hunchbacked mother, Lyn (Joanna Scanlan), contentedly share meals, pet names and even a bed.
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This one is doubly offensive: not only must you taste the cloying flavor of the gum, but so must everyone around you when it is on your breath for the rest of the day.
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For something that's slightly sweeter without being cloying, Chaim Dauermann, beverage director at N.Y.C.'s Gin Palace (where there are about 75 types of the juniper-flavored spirit on offer) created the Sweet Home.
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What's good on the radio or at the club isn't necessarily something you seek out beyond those outlets, and frankly, I have long found her "little monsters" messaging cloying and, at times, ill-informed.
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Maybe you'll want to know that there's a solemn cover of a track by Kanye West ("Coldest Winter"); maybe you already know that there's a dim, cloying cover of "Hallelujah," the Leonard Cohen hymn.
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There were cloying touches—the reliance on 1980s pop ballads, for example—but for the most part the first season presented a timeless tale about society's darkest undercurrents and what happens when fascism prevails.
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"Life Itself": "This is Us" creator Dan Fogelman sought to migrate his "We're all connected" formula to the big screen, in the process birthing a cloying movie that provoked far more irritation than tears.
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And let's not forget Mortdecai, in which Depp turns in a performance so cloying that only the pre-verbal can stand to look directly at it for more than a moment at a time.
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Perfect for a cozy night of pretending to watch Almost Famous with your high school BF. In the early aughts, sticky bottles of this cloying scent occupied the wire bathroom shelves of teens everywhere.
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If Martin pulls her punches at the end and closes on a cheerful note more reminiscent of Zadie's cloying early observations, that doesn't detract from the haunting exploration of the effects of lifelong shame.
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It also has the acidity necessary to make sweet wines that are refreshing and not cloying, both in a style that can be consumed with a meal or as a honeyed, nectar-like dessert.
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Whether the pair can be together is the question propelling the book — pretty standard fare, but Niven is adept at creating characters, and at saving the book's sight-and-blindness messaging from being cloying.
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Whatever you do, don't watch the trailer, which relies too much on Nina and Jamie's goofy rendition of The Walker Brothers' "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" — which is sweet in context, cloying without it.
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Other kinds of gluelike matter didn't succeed either: More honey made it cloying, date syrup made it taste like oatmeal cookie crumbs, peanut butter overpowered all the other ingredients, and applesauce just made it weird.
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The first bite sprays filling everywhere, and it's a surprising one; while egg custard buns are usually like biting into thick molten lava, the coconut milk curbs the cloying sweetness and isn't nearly as heavy.
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Stray too far from the recommended dishes, though, and you could end up with the peculiarly unappealing seared foie gras with a fluffy, cloying lemon sauce and something that looks and tastes like cornflake crumbs.
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But if the shimmering jalebi or sticky sugar bombs that are gulab jamun—both deep fried and soaked in simple syrup—are too cloying for you to handle, these pistachio peda are where it's at.
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And they sometimes feel a bit cloying, honestly, because they employ such shopworn clichés as the city girl who learns more about life from visiting the country (and from the young man she meets there).
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Or at least that's how it feels right now inside Klaus von Nichtssagend, where obsessive, exuberant and faux-naïve artworks, by 23 artists, make up a florid, occasionally cloying but always heartening summer group show.
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I can't really knock bacon, because son, it's bacon (although cheap supermarket bacon really has nothing on salted and aged pancetta or guanciale) but cream is heavy and cloying, especially when reduced to a thick gloop.
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It was a cloying, cheap speech even before Kim Kardashian stepped up to say that West's phone call asking for permission for at least part of the lyric had been recorded, Swift's laughter and acquiescence included.
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The character designs are cloying, for sure, but cute in the same way the old games were (minus a really fat-phobic character in the first world, which is stupidly self-referential and not actually funny).
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The scent played a big role — the sweet and rich fig scent managed to still be bright and fresh rather than cloying, and it was a refreshing change from the generically "fresh" scents of most soaps.
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Bizarre twists have very little payoff, and lines meant to be wry and sexy come off charmless and cloying, particularly when every main character is a fashion plate attempting to be all California cool and nonchalant.
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The broth is rich but not cloying, the noodles appropriately springy, the whole egg—poached in its shell before being gently released into the broth like a sprightly dolphin freed from a trawler's net—famously luxurious.
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In a prefatory note in the program, Ms. Rice writes of her heart feeling "full to the brim, like the characters," and there's an innocence and sincerity to the piece that keep it from turning cloying.
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And in the context of this performance, it was also clear how direct, and almost cloying, his Drake collaboration "Mia" is — a song designed for smooth absorption that never pushes the edges of Bad Bunny's gifts.
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With uplifting pop that's orchestral in scope but never cloying in execution, this British band has carved out an unlikely niche that places its frontwoman, Florence Welch, somewhere between Top 40 divas and alternative singer-songwriters.
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She was looking for respite, and the image includes her four-poster bed just left of center, floating in a sea of flora and light, in colors that verge on pastel but do not become cloying.
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A cooling evergreen moat of pine ice surrounds an earthy rye pudding that's enriched with brown butter; pears fried in honey are splayed out on top, and some acerbic cranberries prevent the whole thing from cloying.
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Though this is Gounod's finest opera, a more sophisticated score than "Faust," the music can still seem a little precious and cloying, even during the crucial love duet on the couple's only night of wedded bliss.
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Here are some pieces of evidence: Again, to be clear: The main reason the show probably won't do this is that it would be incredibly hard to do well, without being offensive or cloying or manipulative.
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Here, performed by the soprano Melissa Hughes over halting chords played by a string quartet drawn from the ensemble Newspeak — with the cellist Evelyn Wadkins calling out the numbers for all 92 items — its whimsy felt cloying.
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All this might sound a bit cloying, but the recent success of tbh, which calls itself "the only anonymous app with positive vibes," shows that many kids crave safer, kinder ways to connect with their peers online.
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We're now seeing real momentum to limit sugar in the American diet, from policies to rid sugary snack foods from schools to soda taxes, added sugar labels, and the industry effort to make its products less cloying.
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After no one is in a pool anymore, they exchange meaningful, long-distance gazes at one another over ice cream cones, which is appropriate foodstuff for this scene because of how very cloying this whole situation is.
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Unlike most of the books I loved as a child, which hold up remarkably well, when I bought the All-of-a-Kind Family books to read to my kids, I found them to be nauseatingly cloying.
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And some episodes stand out for such thoughtful handling of delicate cultural issues — without being cloying or trite — that they look right at home among today's offerings (as long as you take the 1970s setting into account).
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Bloated, bombastic, cloying, quaint and smug — and occasionally, it must be said, very pretty — "Mass" (1971) now exists mainly as a stale memento of the aftermath of the liberalizations in Catholic ritual inspired by the Second Vatican Council.
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The works of Aditya Basak, Chhatrapati Dutta, Sunandini Banerjee, and Prabir C. Purkayastha, though all formally accomplished, either over- or under-engage with the photographs' narrative pull, resulting in pieces that are, variously, too cloying or too cold.
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But in the world of Here I Am, that cloying portrait of early marriage functions as a kind of lost Eden, a pure state of innocence for which the characters long as they remain mired in their corrupt present.
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His myriad voice work, from Batman properties to the highly satirical Animaniacs to his own hilarious self-portrayal in Family Guy, pulled off the rare feat of employing self-referentiality as comedy without lapsing into cloying or vainglorious territory.
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You know the drill by now—sky high rents and club closures, social cleansing and burger bars, the Bake Off and an overwhelming sensation of being slowly, very slowly, suffocated by the cloying and crushing blandness of it all.
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Unlike the other neo-dancehall hits clogging up streaming algorithms, the song doesn't venture into cloying, post-Bieber earworms and is instead content to loll about unassumingly, with Gyptian's easygoing flirtations and Equal's able-bodied riddim speaking for themselves.
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My only objection to Ms. Reddy's recital was that when dancing as a gopi, one of the milkmaids in love with Krishna, she exhibited a winsomeness — repeated, pointed use of the eyes — that became cloying when sustained at length.
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The movie, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and based on a novel by W. Bruce Cameron, serves up one cloying story after another as it drags us through the multiple lives of a dog named Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad).
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While some of Mr. Gurung's were great (those knits!), some were cloying (a lemon-yellow cold-shoulder dress dripping with plissé at the sleeves and a host of covered buttons down the skirt), and some were just plain silly.
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The most apparent and cloying feature of the campaigns to date has been dangerous nostalgia; the failure by both parties to acknowledge the change of the century, retreating instead to the past, to the last century, the last millennium.
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Adapted from Penelope Fitzgerald's novel by the Spanish director Isabel Coixet, "The Bookshop," playing in New York and Los Angeles, begs for less of Julie Christie's voice-over and the cloying vintage gentility — and far more of Mr. Nighy.
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There are the less-than-subtle ways, like entire Jon Hamm-voiced narrations about delusions and madness, along with quiet, cloying ones, like announcing you might have that weird new season 2 teeth-chattering infection if you hear recurring sounds.
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Instead, it aims for a paradigm shift in how queer people come together over food and drink, replacing the well vodka shots and the cloying appletinis with sweet and tangy fried cauliflower, and shrimp cooked with tomato and curry leaves.
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That album was followed by Jay-Z's 2017 album 803:44, which charted his redemption, and then their shared album Everything Is Love, a sometimes-cloying record that sees the couple reconciled and love-happy, repurposing their hardships in song.
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The video, posted on Thursday morning, includes perhaps the most annoying music ever featured in a political attack ad: a cloying trickle of sound to accompany a bobble-headed Mayor Bill de Blasio bouncing through a jaundiced summary of his week.
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In contrast to their academic contemporaries, whose cloying and superficial paintings quickly achieved institutional recognition and market success, Degas and Cézanne were unable to cloak their ugliness in glazes and varnish: their conflict is our conflict; their inhumanity is our inhumanity.
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The friendly spectacle and inclusion of her husband in this special is endearing, but it can also move from sweet to cloying and is part of the reason this show is more likely to appeal to fans than win converts.
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And "Departure Mode," without obscuring the cloying tone of its vintage Valentine's card, brings out all the lonely adult tristesse waiting on the far side of any tryst by inserting a misty landscape by Caspar David Friedrich right in the middle.
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They swing from dark to light with liberating ease, constantly aware that our highs and lows are always leavened by an insistent reality, never completely surrendering to cloying contentedness or existential dread (or, in my little Sam's case, existential crankiness).
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Her character doesn't sit well as a face, at least not over an extended period of time, and the initial (and deserved) mutual congratulating sessions on assembling a women's roster which can and does wrestle has moved from necessary to cloying.
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It's Justus Kohncke covering Jefferson Starship's "I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You", it's Superpitcher's horribly cloying closeness on "Happiness," it's a million and one bedroom producers from Manchester to Mannheim giving up sampling the speech from "Can You Feel It" by Mr. Fingers.
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It's a momentary respite from the cloying terrors of the world, a way to briefly trick our overactive brains into thinking, yeah, sure, everything is just fine with some New Age music, breathing exercises and, most importantly, just complete and utter darkness.
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But taken together, they serve as a reminder that he, too, is working on the relationship, and if cloying public declarations of affection are what is takes to seek Kardashian's full forgiveness, then trolls be damned, here comes the heart-eyes emoji.
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That's not only because its name was snagged from the dystopian film about people eating people, but also because its products were perhaps over-hyped at launch as the "end of food" and other cloying accolades before it even proved the market.
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But the overall effect is the same: The chile keeps the honey from becoming cloying, the honey tones down the brashness of the chile, and together you get something that's a lot more complex than the merging of only two ingredients would suggest.
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Extra points to those who attempt the chef Meghan Thompson's recipe for an Asianified steamed brown bread to go along with it, the cloying sweetness of the original replaced with a strong dose of doenjang, the funky Korean paste made of fermented soybeans.
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Local promotion or not, this is also telling of where the Democrats are as a party right now, lately far more the party of the cloying bromides of Nancy Pelosi and the Cheshire Cat grin of Chuck Schumer than of the New Deal.
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"Bel Canto" is the rare film that does not use opera to comment ironically on bloodshed, or signal sinister depravity, or provide the sonic equivalent of a heart-shaped box of chocolates in a moment of slightly cloying Valentine's Day-style romance.
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Also available are Pralines de Montargis, made with almonds instead of pecans (less cloying than their American cousins), pate de fruit — jewel-tone artisanal fruit jellies — savories, cookies, single-sourced French honey and a charming selection of glazed pottery from the Loire Valley.
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"They're just sweet enough without being cloying and give me the pick-me-up I'm after in the middle of the afternoon, post-workout, or when I'm starving and stuck on a long commute," said Kelli Foster, an associate food editor at Kitchn.
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Distrustful of the idea of genre, which flattens differences among artists, and of the cloying playlists devised by streaming services ("Best Morning Ever"), Ratliff organizes his chapters around themes that cut across the entire musical continuum: speed, slowness, stillness, loudness, density, virtuosity.
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Because the actors' tone is off, lyrics and laugh lines with the potential to charm — as in Louise's silly confessional "Every Time a Waitress Calls Me Honey," or Harry's ode to their home borough, "Manhattan" — read as corny or cloying, or both.
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Funk is also miles removed from the cloying and ubiquitous sertanejo music (a sort of Brazilian country-pop but way less cool than that sounds) that Teló's hit epitomizes, as it's grimy and vital with the tenacity of the low-income favelas it started in.
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It features, so far as I can reckon, two songs, one of them a remix of the other, and both cloying beyond measure: unhinged percussion and self-conscious wackiness, with the whip-zang-pow sensibility of a sitcom parody of a Saturday morning cartoon.
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In recent years, Roberts, who'll be seen on screens both big and small this fall (in Amazon's thriller series Homecoming out today and December's family drama Ben Is Back), may have finally found a way to shed that cloying description by embracing a pricklier persona.
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Brisk, slapsticky and stylish — and with a bullseye-perfect role for co-lead Ryan Gosling — The Nice Guys unfortunately gets whacked at the knees by cloying cleverness, a script built on one too many kooky coincidences and characters who are obviously in on the joke.
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The Snowy Day's portrayal of a diverse friendship circle might play as forced or cloying in less-talented hands, but directors Jamie Badminton and Rufus Blacklock, and writers Ann Austen and Irene Sherman, don't talk about the importance of surrounding yourself with other cultures.
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Bachelor: Delice De Bourgogne, Zabars Bio: This triple-creme, made by Lincet, is rich, buttery and decadent, but the creme-fraiche added to the curds adds a nice sour-cream-like lactic note to prevent the cheese from becoming too cloying and one-note.
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Its man-of-the-people look, along with a cloying media campaign calling him "Papa Xi," help soften his harder authoritarian edges, while its calculated lack of pretense and extravagance sets the tone for a leader seeking to rein in official corruption and profligacy.
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As her youthful pencil drawing of a stringy-haired woman and her confident contour drawing of a pony," Untitled" (1980), suggest, Berkenblit's career is rooted in her early adolescent fantasy life, and yet something remarkable happened — her work never becomes cloying, sentimental, or sweet.
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Add to this one additional recent phenomenon: the resurgence of lite-reggae on the pop charts, whether in the form of the Felix Jaehn tropical house remix of OMI's "Cheerleader" last year, or the cloying, banal lovers-rock of "Rude," by the Canadian band Magic!
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Building upon the elemental happy hardcore sounds which were bread and olive-oil for veteran Sammy, in the true Balearic spirit of revival and reinvention he sensed unexplored potential in Adams' syrupy ballad, a pleasant dissonance between his patent euphoric trance and Adams' cloying lyricism.
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Far easier to blame the man dead on the floor of a Florida vacation home than all of the men and women at CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, or our own media publications, who profited and still profit off a perniciously cloying access journalism.
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Everything about the shakes is ridiculous: the store-bought taste of the frosting that adheres the candy to the glass; the dry, cloying brownies in the Brooklyn Blackout; the mounds of blue and pink spun sugar and the giant lollipops protruding from the Cotton Candy.
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Even though I'm a skin-care obsessive, I've given in to the urge to try abrasive scrubs and mechanical brushes to get rid of dryness, followed by cloying creams that kept the cold at arm's length but were incompatible with my twenty-something skin.
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"La Femme et le TGV" ("The Woman and the TGV," available for a fee from iTunes), from Switzerland, is almost rescued from mawkish triviality by the affecting performance of the great Jane Birkin as the title character, and nearly ruined by a cloying, aggressive score.
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Though the AV Club writes that the song "is no Moonlight," it also leads to a tender moment between Cary and a young man on the streets of New York City who confesses he came out to his mom after being emboldened by the cloying music video.
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The shorter stories, set largely in America and Britain, range from the bordered confines of a London garden to the cloying luxury of an overseas paradisiacal resort, from the confiscation of a tube of ChapStick at an American airport to a haunted semi-detached house in London.
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The movie is a poorly executed representation of a mediocre love story leaning on its beautiful setting, and I found the music and locations to be so cloying that I felt like the director was busy focusing on them and forgot to focus on the characters.
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Less successful are the many moments when the book, which walks the line between cute and cloying, reproduces black-and-white photo booth strips of Knisley and her husband (and eventually their son) doing wacky, loving things for the camera (lifting up shirts, kissing pregnant stomachs, etc.).
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Just ahead of Valentine's Day, Facebook is adding a few features to Messenger that'll appear for new couples, ranging from mostly innocuous tweaks to cloying changes that'll remind both of you that Facebook is always watching and trying to embed itself deeper into the fabric of your lives.
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It's that packaging feminist ideas so neatly can feel, to me, like an expression of the desire to skip past so much of the significant, systemic work to be done and go straight to the commemorative T-shirt — or the cloying documentary portrait, the feel-good biopic, the star-packed remake.
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The restaurant's waitstaff became rather skeptical at this point, for any thinking person knows that maraschino cherries don't have pits; plus, the pit in his hand looked exactly like one you'd find in an unprocessed cherry, not the bright-red variety dipped in cloying syrup and used as a cocktail garnish.
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If you're forced to choose just one drink (and it's now or never, as the menu changes every few days), the Shady Lady is, indeed, as they claim, "a pretty sassy aperitivo": the cloying sweetness of sherry is balanced by a thick slice of cucumber and a dash of prosecco.
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And if Erdem's Hitchcock-meets-Hattie Carnegie-meets-Rita Hayworth ode to veiled suspense and the aroma of the lily was occasionally too cloying, the floral tweeds, pearl-and-gold fringed pencil skirt with matching sweater and a strapless black velvet sheath embroidered with trumpet blooms carried with them their own atmosphere.
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The actual substance of A Wrinkle in Time — as something both ambitious and clunky, sweet and cloying, wrestling tricky source material into something alternately stunning and befuddling on screen, and looking refreshingly little like the usual kiddie fare — has gotten downplayed (even, I am agonizingly aware, in the piece you're currently reading).
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Her critically acclaimed Happy Valley, which aired on Netflix in the US, was a terrific example of the British mystery format, and while her exploration of late-in-life romance, Last Tango in Halifax (a PBS show here), is a bit cloying, it's hard to hold that against such a sweet show.
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If you've come across Blippi, the wildly popular YouTube kids entertainer, you might dismiss him as an eccentric 30-year-old man in an orange bow tie and bright orange glasses, a guy in a blue and orange cap who dances wildly and speaks in a cloying, over-enunciated voice for kids on the internet.
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This isn't to denigrate anyone or their work, but nostalgia seems like such a cloying, potent thing in club culture...With all that, from the vinyl revival, to cassettes coming back, to dressing up in your grandad's clothes, what happened was that back in the day you had to go somewhere to cut your records.
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When the camaraderie does happen publicaly, it can risk coming off as some cloying marketing ploy and worse yet, when recruits resist the siren call of clique culture among women, the whole thing starts to reek of squadism, putting yet another dent in our idea of what women are capable of doing when we unite.
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Even worse, "Barack and Joe" is written in a cloying style — "Barack and Joe, no longer opponents, were now able to move into a new phase with each other," or "Through straight talk over lunch, Barack and Joe resolved their spat" — that seems better suited to a children's book than a sophisticated political account.
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Here was a woman taking the sometimes cloying rhetoric around WWE's corporate announcement of the women's revolution and turning it into a statement: I can bleed, I can hurt, and I can by God sell tickets as good as any man, maybe even better, given the sometimes dismal state of the men's matches this year.
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Mr. Foster's destination, wedged between a pizza parlor and the opioid addiction clinic, was the Tapering Vapor, a bare-bones e-cigarette shop and makeshift lounge that serves as his modest oasis, a place to catch a mild nicotine buzz and let a world of worry float away on banks of big, cloying, candy-flavored clouds.
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Cruz's feminist view is one of the liberating aspects of his writing, as is a kind of magical realism that is not cloying but true to his characters, and to the fact of dispossession: sometimes we don't know who we are because we don't know where life has landed on our bodies, let alone in our hearts. ♦
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Dafne Keen, last seen stealing Logan from Hugh Jackman, is a perfectly fierce, sharp-eyed, endlessly watchable Lyra: kind and shrewd, precocious but never cloying, believably distracted by shiny new possibilities as she learns more about her world, but with a bullshit detector that serves her well as adult agendas and complex loyalties shift in all directions around her.
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Simon is a generation younger than Roth and grew up in the heavily Jewish Maryland suburbs of Washington (so did I, a generation after that), but his longing for Roth's magical prewar New Jersey shtetl is palpable, in a way that might border on cloying if The Plot Against America didn't proceed to mercilessly detail that world's destruction.
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The self-assured pop sprinkled throughout FOTB works as an insurance policy against the album's digressions from the Vampire Weekend formula; any risky experiment (such as the loungey slog of "My Mistake" or the cloying "Married In a Gold Rush," which adopts a country cadence and cloaks it in electro-pop) is accompanied with a more straightforward appeal to listeners' pleasure centers.
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It shouldn't feel like this kind of grounded narrative should be such a significant thing in a game, since this is a mode of storytelling that is very common in other media, and yet I feel likeKingdom Hearts III has accomplished something profound by actually pulling it off in a way that I didn't find cloying or weird or clunky.
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Smarter way to describe it: It's a show with a more sophisticated conceit than that—one that's dedicated less to a cloying plot device (meant to extend the show into perpetuity forever and drive viewers insane), and instead one with a hilarious (but believable) plot device designed to elucidate poignancy where the agony and ecstasy of trying to negotiate a life between romanticism and reality is concerned.
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It's comforting to think that the internet has a microscopic attention span, because it makes life easier to live: We can take unflattering photos, post slightly offensive tweets or, say, release a cloying, whiny pop-rock track about a woman we spotted on the subway, because the assumption is that the internet will forget: We are but specks in the universe, mere fodder in the content machine.
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At their peak popularity, in 1987, wine cooler sales topped a billion dollars annually, and accounted for 20 percent of all wine consumed in the US. But by the time of Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1992, they had gone nearly extinct, replaced by malt-liquor-based surrogates like Zima and St. Ides that delivered the cloying fizzy fruitiness, but without any actual wine.
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That being said, it is also the time when people try and start fights with wheelie bins, so let's not get too romantic about it In an effort to better understand the 'fucked chat', to map its movements and meditate on its significance, we've put together a comprehensive guide to every boring, stupid, gross, cloying, creepy, bizarre conversation you are going to have this weekend.
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In addition to a fresh, savory syrah, he is making a white zinfandel — not the sweet, cloying mass-market kind, but a fresh, incisive style — and, most interestingly, a red made of the rubired, a little-known but common grape in the Central Valley, used primarily in cheap wines and coloring agents like Mega Purple, a ubiquitous tool in California for darkening pale reds.
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Gefilte fish, that Passover punch line, an often sugared, gelatinous mash of ground carp, pike, and whitefish, becomes very nearly elegant in Teyf's hands: he uses it as filling for crisp, salty bread-crumb croquettes, which cut through the cloying sweetness of the fish and use the usual accompaniment of grated horseradish, dyed red and sweetened with beets and vinegar, as a subtle condiment instead of a masking device.
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Like so much recent Chicago hip-hop and R&B (minus the cloying juvenilia), her trick is to evoke the specifics of daily life — quotidian anxiety, relationship trouble, relationship bliss, police violence, money struggles, worrying about her career, casual moments of fun, and so on — in a blithe, magically easygoing mood that couldn't possibly reflect her lived experience of the world, or for that matter anyone else's, so spiritually peaceful it's almost surreal.
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First, I recognized the landscape, or, rather, recognized, via the landscape, the building: this, I remembered, was where I had met, at an unauthorized rooftop party on the Fourth of July several years ago (willows of sparks over the East River; cloying rum punch), the young curator who had introduced me to a woman named Liz, with whom I became friends, and through whom I was introduced to Sonia—so this building into which her paintings had disappeared was linked to the origin of our relationship.
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The show even borrows directly from that film: She always comes back to life with an increasingly cloying pop song (in Groundhog Day, Bill Murray knows he's alive again when his alarm clock plays "I've Got You Babe"); she befriends a homeless man whom she tries to save from freezing to death (Murray's homeless friend was named "Pop," Nadia's is called "Horse"); she goes through the same process of confusion followed by elation when she learns that she is doomed to repeat the same day dozens of times.
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