Word: cloying
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...Vice-President's best decision was to schedule several early evening showings of a remarkable half-hour campaign biography, filmed by a firm that has sent hordes of congressmen and senators into office with similar production. The art of it all is not impenetrable and contrivances cloy a bitr, like the ending, which shows a barefoot Humphrey pushing sand on a deserted beach like a pudgy reincarnation of John Kennedy...
...prone waif who bruises an eye, bangs a toe and burns a finger, she runs to the audience to be comforted. She flutters and stutters, and sentences spill out of her mouth like rag dolls losing their stuffing. By now, though, this little-girl-lost act is beginning to cloy, and Sandy Dennis is in danger of losing her acting momentum in mannerisms...
They may suppose, because I would not cloy your...
...believed, were only surface villains (for them, Morgenthau preferred firing squads to war-crimes trials); the real rot was in the German soul. "Somebody's got to take the lead about let's be tough to the Germans," he told Assistant Secretary of War John J. Mc-Cloy on his return to Washington...
...Towers are the main reason people apply to Leverett House. After the pristine beauty of the Yard begins to cloy, or, worse still, or worse still, after you inched your way along the algae-encrusted corridors of one of the Union dorms for a few months, the Towers look understandibly inviting. Real penthouse living. Unfortunately concrete idol has clay feet. For some, living in the Towers can be a grisly experience. The view of course is fine if you're lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window...