That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Just writing this made me recall the cloying twee-ness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Spin Magazine Online -] Reference
That it covered up rather than exposed, that it was like a phony grin - cloying. From Wordnik.com. [Foiled] Reference
Really, liberals are all "cloying" when it comes to Obama?. From Wordnik.com. [Michael J.W. Stickings: Chris Hedges and the Left-Wing Attack on Liberals, Liberalism, and Barack Obama] Reference
Amy, I used to wear White Shoulders too, but it got kind of cloying to me after a while. From Wordnik.com. [A fragrance that changed everything: Anaïs Anaïs by Cacharel] Reference
I find it kind of cloying, but then I was really, really disappinted in the ending of No More Heroes, too. From Wordnik.com. [I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best] Reference
There probably will be some kind of cloying make-up bit on the results show. From Wordnik.com. [digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews] Reference
'cloying', with the twitterpation and sappy love scenes?. From Wordnik.com. [John K Stuff] Reference
Sometimes the collaborations seem a little cloying. From Wordnik.com. [Making Book The Hard Way] Reference
At nine years old, you learn how cloying gratitude is. From Wordnik.com. [Not Drowning] Reference
I was glad his version of Dr. Valentine wasn't cloying. From Wordnik.com. [The 49 Days] Reference
Irina had been living for some time among cloying luxuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
A soft, cloying wave of perfume greeted them as they entered. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
We each had a double Jack-and-Coke, syrup-sweet and cloying. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happens] Reference
The speeches were as predictable as the music, if less cloying. From Wordnik.com. [Problems At The Pentagon] Reference
The breeze was stronger here, the scent of roses almost cloying. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Many are so sweet they're cloying, or are simply plonk made for profit. From Wordnik.com. [UNCORKED | DRY ROSES] Reference
It's sweet but not cloying, with lovely notes of spice and orange peel. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Wines in First Class Truly First-Rate?] Reference
So feeble and cloying is the venereal indulgence, if Love inspires it not. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Still the breeze delayed, and the fragrant odors of the woods were cloying. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Too close a conformity produces monotonous formalities, cloying classicisms. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
It's a richer, more full-bodied sweetness, not cloying like some lighter honeys. From Wordnik.com. [Savoie the Fair] Reference
And the smell -- the cloying smell that goes with camel caravans, it was pungent!. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
And there are some who are attracted by the faint, cloying odour of this chloroform. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
He spoke to him in a grave, dignified manner that Kennedy found unctuous and cloying. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Week] Reference
I cannot help feeling that this cloying attendance on chapel must be altogether pernicious. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
It's a cloying sort of Chardonnay-sipping activism, as rightie Patrick Buchanan might have it. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Make Love, Not War] Reference
Turks eat a vast quantity of these cloying sweetmeats, after which they drink abundance of sherbet. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The 16th they continued to pass over a similar landscape, the beauties of which were never cloying. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Tension filled their bodies, limbs trapped in a cloying embrace, and she bit her lip, brow furrowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise] Reference
Here's what so great about it: tenderness is subtle, not clinging or cloying like in the Goo Factory. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Judith Rich: How to Love A Curmudgeon] Reference
Much like her cutesy nickname (real name: Sheila), Peach's aesthetic is sweet to the point of cloying. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants] Reference
J. Peterman: Some are annoyed by the Kentucky company's cloying, Hemingwayesque descriptions of clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Peri Picks] Reference
My firebrand antics that bid begone to any cloying adoration for "characters we can identify with and love.". From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
A somewhat cloying example of the latter is found in an effusion describing the visit of Farmer Colin in 1741. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
He bent forward with a match for her, and the perfume from her hair, her skin, her dress met him in a cloying wave. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
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