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Cloying in sentence

29 examples of Cloying in a sentence

Overall it's just too cloying for its own good, but you've got to give some props to a film with the guts to give a guy with Kevin Chamberlin's build a nude love scene.
Forced, cloying, formulaic.
Or what about a manipulative, cloying, utterly wretched script?
This movie is full of pseudo deep thoughtfulness and it's cloying in its writerly-ness, that includes a canned ham voice-over and some unbelievable dialogue.
His script does have genuinely funny moments but it's also full of cloying family moments and the humour is never weird or indeed offensive enough.
It barely matters because the dire acting, clichéd camera-work and cloying music would have ruined anything resembling like a decent script anyway.
This movie is sweet - not cloying, just warm-spirited and kind.
Also, some of the humor is a bit on the cloying side, Joan Cusack was too over-the-top for me, and someone has a strange timeline re the Oscars.
I don't really mind inexperience and low-budget productions but when the writing is this obvious and cloying it really burns my potatoes.
This is a movie that deals in nasty, threadbare stereotypes instead of characters, preposterous manipulation instead of coherent plotting, and a hideous cocktail of cloying sentimentality and gratuitous violence instead of thought, wit or feeling.
Coincidence plays a major role in the unfolding of the drama, but it never becomes too cloying.
Brian Herzlinger is a normal Joe trying to 'get a date with Drew Barrymore' in 30 days in this cloying 'Documentary'.
Although I heard that there were many differences between the real life Rocky Dennis and his movie counterpart and in spite of melodrama and some cloying touchy feely cuteness , "Mask" often feels like real life , which can be both comforting and disturbing, especially considering that real people can and did have the disease presented in the movie (with frighteningly realistic makeup).
Add a beautiful musical score, some very fine acting, and a captivating plot, and you have a rare experience... a movie with heart, that entertains, and which even delivers a message without being cloying or overbearing.
The cast was outstanding - Colin Firth marvelously befuddled, Angela Lansbury wonderfully austere, Emma Thompson gruesomely wise and endearing, and all of the children sweet and mischievous without being cloying and horrible.
The issue of divorce and how it affects children is only marginally dealt with in this cloying story of a happy family torn apart by a rotten script.
The movie and her performance are both cloying, manipulative embarassments.
A young cat (a clear prototype for Jones's cloying early character Sniffles) takes over the post of night watchman when his father is too ill to carry out the job.
It's so annoying, the story lines are idiotic, the voices are cloying and awful ... If it disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it.
The third sequence finds them performing what looks like a pre cursor to the MTV style of music video,with the band (with Billy Preston,on organ)playing 'Two Of Us','Let It Be',and a far superior version of 'The Long & Winding Road',without the cloying strings of Phil Spector in the background.
This version contains real people and not characters lifted from cloying greeting cards.
The cartoon is nearly stolen by a stammering hillbilly bird and his laboured rendition of Simple Simon but ultimately 'I Love to Singa' belongs to Owl Jolson, a character who manages to be cute without being cloying.
Working with a virtually unknown Irish cast, Sayles brings to life a story that wanders on the borderland between mystical and blue-collar realism, without becoming cloying or simplistic.
Cloying whimsy with Sandy Dennis as Sarah an incurably ill woman who runs some unspecified "legitimate repair service" that apparently includes the men she takes in to her life and bed each month;she's lover, muse and mother.
Rod McKuen's music is cloying and his singing is, as always, horrendous.
Also, the soundtrack was too loud and too cloying, like something from a 1940's radio soap opera.
It would be better for both countries to shed some of these marigold garlands of cloying adjectives.
So, too, is the cloying image of Hope emerging from the vessel last to soothe men’s souls.
A faint, sweet, cloying odor rose from the brilliant pile.