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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
The milk from Iwase Farm, in Sunagawa, is now also making the journey to Indigo Cow’s new shop in Echo Park, where the soft serve can also come tinged with matcha and topped with mochi balls, warm roasted sweet potatoes, roasted soybean powder, brown-sugar syrup and more.
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Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Transfer walnuts to saucepan with sugar syrup, and stir until evenly coated.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
His current diet features toast, protein shakes, gluten-free waffles with syrup, chicken soup, and bacon-and-tomato sandwiches.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Finally, specialty syrups, such as lavender or honey, offer a simple way to incorporate unique flavors into classic cocktails.
—Rachel King, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Transfer walnuts to saucepan with sugar syrup, and stir until evenly coated.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
His current diet features toast, protein shakes, gluten-free waffles with syrup, chicken soup, and bacon-and-tomato sandwiches.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Finally, specialty syrups, such as lavender or honey, offer a simple way to incorporate unique flavors into classic cocktails.
—Rachel King, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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After Earth is overrun with sentimentality and groaningly bad stabs at dramatic profundity.Will Leitch, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 July 2024
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The next few songs strand us on a mountaintop of sentimentalism, while subtly rebuking race and genre lines.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
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Kendrick turned what was his ire toward one person into overall hatred toward the industry, yet conveyed his conflicting emotions in genuinely good sounding music.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
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All of these things dictate her physicality and her emotions.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.David Benedict, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.A.A. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.Brian Lowry, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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