It reminded me of an old Patty Loveless song, “Handful of Dust,” which is kind of soppy, but fairly accurate. From Wordnik.com. [Making my day « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Certain 'soppy' events in the anime are replaced by a more violent and harsher reality. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
You've clearly learnt to rely on yourself and seem to fear any kind of soppy dependence on others. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
But already it was getting soppy with black water. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
We thought this song soppy, but we never forgot it. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
This loyalty is a strategy more than a soppy impulse. From Wordnik.com. [World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello's trawl for talent shows faith and flexibility] Reference
Mr. MORRIS: Oh, Brian, you're making it sound very soppy. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan] Reference
He hands you the soppy bouquet for your reluctant scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
I think its time for a really meaningful and totally soppy song. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Boy children did not like ‘soppy’ displays of maternal emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Master of Pleasure]
How I wish we could see each other again, and I know I sound soppy. From Wordnik.com. [blu94anjel Diary Entry] Reference
He'd said she was a raspberry syrup kind of girl -- soppy -- immature. From Wordnik.com. [Barefoot Bride]
He glared up at me, soppy hair hanging in front of his eyes like vines. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
The walls are charred and soppy with ash and the smell is overpowering. From Wordnik.com. [Complicated Game] Reference
She is genially hated in the orphanage, pitiful and soppy and aggravating. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
It was involuntary - it sounds so soppy, but I was completely overwhelmed. From Wordnik.com. [Forgiveness Is Not A Sign of Weakness, His Holiness Tells Derry/Londonderry] Reference
This article is such pure, soppy, GARBAGE that Shachtman should be ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Is the movie Titanic-like (gidjillion special effects and soppy storyline)?. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
I thought people went all soppy and cried, but I don't seem to feel like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
I don't want to get too soppy, but it made me feel incredibly warm towards him. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis] Reference
Perhaps I am soppy, but isn't the suicide of a parent quite a significant event?. From Wordnik.com. [The unbowed courage of a Hitch in time] Reference
I like old soppy music sing - scream clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Getting over Jian n not turning into a soppy wreck when he left for Melbourne/Perth. From Wordnik.com. [whiteplum Diary Entry] Reference
"You're just being a little bit soppy, Mischief, " said Tinker, but Mischief didn't care. From Wordnik.com. [Five Are Together Again]
So he wasn't going to delude himself or get too soppy and sentimental about Billie either. From Wordnik.com. [Four Blind Mice]
"We're all a bit soppy in the middle," says Horton, absent-mindedly tickling Wilma's tummy. From Wordnik.com. [Going to the dogs: our predilection for pets] Reference
CAMERON: What we need here is not some soppy, defensive civil liberties in all circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2008] Reference
In the last 4 hours, I slowly slunk backwards into my cave and now I am a soppy wet-faced mess. From Wordnik.com. [windylady Diary Entry] Reference
I was in a particularly soppy mood last night so I watched Moulin Rouge in my bedroom and cried. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
In his place behind Orinda loomed Leonard Kitchens with a soppy grin below his out-of-control moustache. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
Girls, in future, we refer to Measley Manor as soon as Maureen trots out her horrible soppy school again. From Wordnik.com. [In the Fifth at Malory Towers]
People at the hotel moaned in soppy self-pity, and I just wanted to howl at them for their pathetic fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The corollary is how to provide feedback that affirms forward movement without becoming soppy in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Bishop: Are You Criticizing, Evaluating Or Judging?] Reference
Mariah Gale's Juliet knows her own mind, and is seldom soppy -- even in the (smolderingly convincing) love scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Energetic 'Romeo and Juliet' Triumphs] Reference
"Oooh, don't be so soppy," I'd say, before going to fetch the looking glass to see if my neck really was "swanlike.". From Wordnik.com. ['Blonde Roots'] Reference
Their trousers were mere bags, frayed at the bottom and wobbling over big, soppy shoes, torn at the sides and worn almost to shreds. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
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