Word: oversweet
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...gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...
...desserts--Blueberry Gateaux ($.50), Apple Tart ($.35) and Chocolate Pie ($.30) were sumptuous. The cheesecake ($.50) was luxurious, very rich and not oversweet...
...spite of a pat, oversweet ending that leaves the hero with cheers ringing in his ears and a girl swinging on his arm, Eye Witness, with its sly spoofing of stuffy British and bumptious American manners, is pretty good...
Maggie made her mind up about another detail: there must be a shorter and more understandable way to tell it than the lengthy and oversweet Barbier and Carré book to which Gounod had set his music. So she picked out the best of Gounod's arias, commissioned English Poet Stephen Spender to write a narration "more in the spirit of Goethe" that would tell the story clearly and bridge the gaps. Last week, a summer audience in sport shirts and bright silk prints packed the sweltering little white frame playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass, for the first performance...
Zerbe's softness is in no way oversweet and his delicacy is always masculine. He is not always delicate, however. In some of the large oils he paints with a vigour, a grandeur and a very real monumentality that shows his extraordinary versatility...