| 单词 | cloy |
| 例句 | But even the festive display and large welcome sign couldn’t distract from the cloying stench of melted hooves and decay. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Combined with our exertion, the cloying heat was almost unbearable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The cloying smell of incense drifted through the doorway, over which a small wooden placard said Work is Struggle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The cloying scents of formaldehyde and alcohol sweetened the air. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The cloying taste of honey is in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And I remember the smells of the hills, wild azalea and a very distant skunk and the sweet cloy of lupin and horse sweat on harness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Vases of blossoms give off a cloying scent that makes my eyes itch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Only when I sniffed again did I become sure of the woodland smells and cloying air. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the cloying fragrance of the decaying flowers, the air was laced with the odors of gunpowder, damp hay, and the dusty musk of horseflesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Its perfume was delicate, changing from moment to moment, sometimes light and fresh, then heavy and cloying. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The road was muddy, the air moist and cloying. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It was no cleaner here, and in fact file air was even harder to breathe than in the cell, because all the natural stinks had been overlaid by a heavy layer of cloying perfume. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Richard smelled the guest’s cologne from the hallway, a cloying, brawny scent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The eunuch's cloying tones were gone; now his voice was thin and sharp as a whip. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The air in the room was full of the sweet, cloying smell of whiskey, and every corner was heaped with mementos of trips to England and South Africa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its flesh is red and dense, and the cloying smell of it fills the forests at harvest time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled of sickness, a cloying odor made up in equal parts of stale sweat and medicine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I began gobbling all the food until my stomach burst open, revealing my cloyed intestines, which burst open too. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She actually believed it was her moths, that she had to choke them down, cloying and clogging and alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The taste was so cloying that it was all he could do to keep it down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were no crowds to bump against her here, no cloying perfumes or wild masks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Eddies cloying and fulsome speeches got on Mrs. Cleaver’s nerves. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had discovered, with the very first toast, that she liked the sweet, cloying taste of the wine, even though it made her head buzz. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew every man must compliment her, bury her in flattery more cloying than roses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even now, wisps of the leaves’ cloying fragrance still suffused the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The cloying smell of rancid fat from the butcher shop below made me thankful for the cool autumn breeze. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the air there is always the heavy, cloying odor of the alcohol distillery on the river, an odor that becomes suffocating on hot summer afternoons when the breeze blows in from the river. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is standard conservative stuff; a little cloying in the delivery, sure, but not shocking. In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Non-devotees of the book are likely to find Murphy's "Eat, Pray, Love" an emotionally murky, inflated Lifetime Channel movie, alternately charming, cloying and dull. "Eat, Pray, Love": A phenomenon goes bust 2010-08-13T00:20:00Z Saturated with sampled timbres and driven by sputtering hip-hop break beats, Mr. Marks’s music is bright and sentimental, at times even cloying in a manner meant to evoke anodyne commercial Christian pop. Music Review: Boy Meets Girl in Matt Marks?s ?Little Death, Vol. 1? 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z And yet as the richness of the final movement intensified toward a noble conclusion, the brilliance of the performance became almost cloying. Pianist Schiff rises to challenge of weighty ‘Last Sonatas’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z She swerved from giddy good cheer to cloying intensity, a bipolar persona that often clashed with the bland, brisk professionalism that is morning television. The TV Watch: Ann Curry’s Tearful Goodbye From ‘Today’ 2012-06-28T21:30:38Z I suspect The Curious Incident will romp away with armfuls of awards but, for me, it was marred by elements of cloying kidult cuteness. Olivier awards nominations: the ones that got away 2013-03-26T14:10:37Z Mr. Wilson’s greatest strength wasn’t his lyrical way with words, which could occasionally cloy, but his infectious, sincere appreciation for the unexpected heat within lost and wayward lives. An Appraisal: Lanford Wilson?s Losers, Beloved by Their Creator 2011-03-25T07:50:16Z The minimalist, somewhat cloying image shows a girl either losing her heart-shaped balloon, or offering it, to the sky. Review | How to open your mind — and your heart — to contemporary art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z They're not going anywhere for a while, but Kyle's challenge continues to be technique -- and he needs to be careful that his goofball routine doesn't become cloying. "Dancing with the Stars": Florentine Henderson, reluctant maiden? 2010-10-05T12:30:00Z The odd engaging moment is always followed by a cloying eye-roller. 'The Perfect Game': Little League underdog tale goes off base 2010-04-15T20:46:00Z It’s cute if intentionally cloying — and annoying the more it’s repeated. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The “Lonely Goatherd” number, with its cloying puppets, including an unfunny Merman one with a gaping mouth, makes the clunky category. Theater Review: ‘Inventing Mary Martin,’ With 3 Singers in the Title Role 2014-04-28T02:00:01Z Maybe Juster’s earnest, mildly subversive playfulness, which dipped a toe or two into the brewing countercultural energies of the early ’60s, has turned cloying with age? Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Yes, it's generally sweeter than Champagne, but not in a cloying way. 19 Prosecco cocktails for when you need a lil’ bubbly 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The show’s title painting, oddly, verges on the cloying with its prairie dogs popping up in a moonlit nightscape. Landscapes redefined in 2 new Seattle gallery shows 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z With uplifting pop that’s orchestral in scope but never cloying in execution, this British band has carved out an unlikely niche that places its frontwoman, Florence Welch, somewhere between Top 40 divas and alternative singer-songwriters. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z "Southern Voice," in comparison, felt ham-fisted and cloying. Tim McGraw lifts KeyArena crowd with voice, songwriting, showmanship 2010-05-22T16:55:00Z With all six singers trading threads of scholarly narrative at the outset, things threatened to grow cloying, but the discussion became more settled, and the demonstrations, even involving audience participation, were brilliant. Music Review: At the Met, Dance, Chant and Song Span the Centuries 2010-03-15T21:48:00Z Rembrandt's honeyed dark is a draught of profundity without which the gold and silver of his fabrics would cloy, the luminous humanity of his faces fade. Winter solstice art: the dark night rises 2012-12-21T14:18:28Z Their quieter numbers were cloying, but when they ramped it up, with epic choruses, tempo shifts and fierce shrieking, they felt elemental: headliner status suits them. Sonisphere ? review 2011-07-10T16:27:00Z I selected the “maximum” setting and sniffed but then switched the thing off just as quickly for fear that the cloying fragrance MGM pumps into the lobby might waft out. The Getaway: This Is Las Vegas? 2013-11-29T18:29:41Z The contemporary dining room, done in dark blues and purples, is dashing without being cloying, and the restaurant’s attention to detail extends from beautiful chopsticks to extensive, impressive lists of Asian teas and European wines. Choice Tables: Sorry to Disappoint, but I Ate Well in Berlin 2012-01-27T17:43:35Z A similar fried cauliflower dish, gobi Manchurian, is sometimes found slicked down, like a duck in an oil spill, by a sauce that has the cloying sweetness and negligible spiciness of bottled barbecue sauce. Can There Be Joy in Fast-Casual? Rowdy Rooster Says Yes. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Yes, this is the same territory covered by “Dolphin Tale,” the movie about an injured dolphin, and the vignettes are sometimes as cloying as that film. Critic’s Notebook: The Lives of Animals, Disabled and Otherwise 2014-04-08T21:23:36Z He’s attuned to every fluctuation in the room’s frequencies, the frayed wires of sibling rivalry, the cloying taste of parental concern. Review | What does a father most want for his children? James Wood’s novel shows us. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The performers here have only respect for the women they embody, though there’s no cloying piety in this representation. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z True, the early passages can be cloying, as the young Andy and Melissa meet as children and exchange brief, dutiful notes about birthday parties and later pass more intimate notes in class. Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow in ‘Love Letters’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Burton's translation is enjoyable, mock-archaicisms and all, though I find his attempts to imitate Arabic prose-rhymes annoying, and also cloying, though admittedly not soul-destroying. What are you reading today? 2012-09-25T14:35:30Z Wafting through the moist air was the accumulated scent — sweet but not cloying — of dozens of snowdrop blossoms emerging from black plastic pots set on his waist-high growing benches. The mysterious appeal of the dainty snowdrop 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Refreshingly, he maintained a classical poise, using, for example, crisp articulation to keep the slow movement from sounding cloying. A BSO crowd-pleaser 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Still, this account compensated with flowing lyricism and never turned cloying. Gianandrea Noseda Conducts Beethoven at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z It presented less cloying sweetness than many Central European liqueurs, quickly inviting another sip, and the lingering herbal tastes hinted at scents I’d noticed in the fresh air of the nearby woods. Overnighter: From City (Munich) to Forest (Bavarian) 2011-07-15T18:55:00Z After more than a year of fairly irritating publicity stunts featuring Patrick Stewart, McKellen has finally found a project that taps into his energy without being cloying. Ian McKellen’s “Vicious” is the most realistic gay comedy we’ve seen in a long time 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z My local specialty market has a truffle ketchup that offers a tasty, if a little cloying, play on truffle fries when drizzled over some shoestring potatoes. How ketchup, an invention of imperial China, eventually became a polarizing American staple 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Well, not quite: I didn’t anticipate how much the sentimentality of the closing scenes, set to Richard Marx’s cloying 1989 hit “Right Here Waiting,” would make me cringe. Movie Review: ?Tyler Perry?s Good Deeds,? With Thandie Newton 2012-02-25T00:20:20Z Suddenly, musical gestures that seemed cloying to me felt jubilant, or even inspiring. Live Music Is Back! (Live Music Is Back?) 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s not art of the cloying variety; it doesn’t depict pain that is pity-seeking, or that aims to emotionally hijack an audience on a ride through some dreary personal catharsis. The Need for Art That Hurts 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z By turns, it was soft and tender, full of grit and power — the opposite of the cloying solos and duets that dominated “Canticle.” Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z At night, when the sea breeze isn’t blowing inland, Juan-les-Pins smells faintly like North Africa, a combination of diesel, dust, cooking oil and cloying flowers. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Her first few releases leaned into the cloying sounds of bubblegum pop, but her latest effort, released this month, explores her darker side through industrial and nu-metal influences. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Majella finds herself constantly contending with cloying expressions of sympathy she doesn’t want. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s a sentiment conveyed gracefully enough not to be cloying, with spoken word and soundtrack interwoven in a reflection of how music is inextricable from Ma’s mind and personality. Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z You took a few sips of a cloying pineapple-rum concoction garnished with glow sticks and a temporary tattoo, then ran for the sanity of the wine list. Restaurant Review: The Clocktower in Midtown South 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z To mention all this does Ms. Strayed a bit of a disservice, because there’s nothing cloying about “Wild.” Books of The Times: ?Wild? by Cheryl Strayed, a Walkabout of Reinvention 2012-03-27T15:51:40Z HUG: Jez Alborough With just the one word of the title dotted through and celebrated repeatedly in all the pictures, this could be cloying. The best children's books: 0-2 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z The character, introduced in the show’s fourth season, was conceived as cloying, calculating and predatory, her deviousness always accompanied by a charming smile. Betty White, a Television Golden Girl From the Start, Is Dead at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The result is cool comfort, and a far better conclusion than our other selection, a cloying brownie slathered with salted caramel. Lunchbox: It looks good and sounds good, but it sure could taste better It’s a bit cloying, the way the golden light graces the bedsheets of their cuckoldry, but the sweetness is of a piece with the show’s M.O. The Odd Nostalgia of a New “Catch-22” 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “It was a bit cloying, and the flavors were muddy. There wasn’t a defining note in it that would lead a bartender to think, ‘What this cocktail is missing is some Dubonnet.’” This New Dubonnet Isn’t the Queen’s, but It’s Improved 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The music they often choose for these routines is spare, generally with piano, overlaid with cloying vocals that have pluck but not power. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z My personal favorite, if that’s the word for it, was “Lazy Day,” a cloying slab of hippy schmaltz by a folk outfit called Spanky and Our Gang. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 5: Maggie Takes Charge 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z “The espresso is there to marry the grappa and the Snickers,” he adds; its bitterness complements the cloying candy sweetness and the alcohol’s heat. A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z For many consumers, Riesling remains saddled with that stigma, a vestige of the insipid, sugary Blue Nun and Black Tower wines from Germany that flooded the market in the 1970s and their cloying American counterparts. Riesling, way beyond sweet All told, though, Patience is a kindly and TV-diverse type of town that breaks free of the usual portrayals of small town tensions in ways that can be a tad cloying. Syfy's charming "Resident Alien" lets its star(man) shine, despite muddled metaphorical aspirations 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Do ignore the subtitle, which is filled with about as many additives as your average plonk, and every bit as cloying. ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z And for all of the joy and charm that Sharp packs into "Miniatures," the record, to the artist's great credit, is never cloying, only sincere. Tiny and mighty: Indie artist Ken Sharp recorded bite-sized baroque pop "Miniatures" on his iPhone 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z In its final minutes, “Becky Nurse of Salem” tries to wrest its themes together via a heartfelt monologue and a cloying ritual. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z It also has the acidity necessary to make sweet wines that are refreshing and not cloying, both in a style that can be consumed with a meal or as a honeyed, nectar-like dessert. Thrilling and Joyless? The Polarity of Sweet Riesling 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Melancholy is a hard emotion to sustain; over the long run, it cloys. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z His measured steadfastness, a marked contrast to Malcolm’s self-flagellation and Enoch’s sanctimony, might be cloying were it not for his charming obtuseness about more personal matters. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Its shallow lyrics and syrupy delivery land with cloying sentimentality: “I don’t just want to be your father/I also want to be your best friend,” Balvin croons in Spanish. J Balvin Attempts to Reintroduce Himself on ‘Jose’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “He didn’t soften it. It’s not like one of those things where it’s cloying for your affection. He doesn’t back off the depiction of the guy who really flushed the best things in life.” In ‘Birdman,’ Michael Keaton Confronts the Nature of Fame 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The problem is Mr. Schwartz’s easygoing and harmonically tame score, which at every opportunity breaks into cloying lyrical flights and set-piece arias, fortified by swelling strings and sonorous brasses. Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z It seems strange to say of this rich sundae of a work but here the “Night Wind” was almost restrained, sensitive without being cloying. Music Review: A Lively Jaunt With Medtner, Schubert and Chopin 2014-01-28T22:04:04Z Fried broccoli is about as crisp as fried broccoli can get, but it’s supposed to be swiped in yuzu-kosho curd that is too cloying; it needs more spice. Pizza Moto Comes to Rest in Brooklyn 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Too often, the available nonalcoholic cocktails prance in the steps of the Shirley Temple: garish, cloying, its very name suggesting consumption by tiny guests with dimples, ringlets and appetites for animal crackers. Forget Dry January. We need better nonalcoholic cocktails every month of the year. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Without stripping gears, she makes fast switches from explosive comedy to a sober emotionalism that never cloys. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Woolf’s imaginary interaction with a contemporary male novelist who speaks about how much she’s meant to him — an invention of the libretto — is cloying and overwrought, drenched in bells. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z But stretched to two hours, including an intermission, the pastel absurdism segues from cloying to numbing. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The parents are exhorted to sing a cloying song, but Bonnie, broken by her involvement in Perry’s death, sits stone-faced. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z They project a caustic intelligence, their rapport is contagious without ever being cloying, giving the proceedings a slow-burn, subversive edge. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Made according to traditional methods in Japan with notes of amber and clove, its scent is cozy but, thanks to additional notes of lavender and oakmoss, not cloying. Soothing Incense, Recommended by T Editors 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z As a concept, that sounds cloying and self-involved, but if Adlon ever dangles her storylines close to those edges, she yanks them right back with a pithy line, or another abrupt end to a scene. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z As a lifelong music obsessive and secular Congregationalist, I have ferocious holiday-music opinions—if it’s too craven, cloying, or pious, it can go jump in a lake. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z And for an owner who says he doesn’t like sweet, Furstenberg should revisit some of his bars, foremost the cloying brownies. Bread Furst review: The loaves are up front, but so much more awaits 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Under the steady guidance of director Jenna Place, Theater J’s production toes the line between challenging and cloying with considerable care. Review | Theater J’s tear-jerking two-hander ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ imparts enduring life lessons 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It lacks the sagacity and depth required to deal with such cloying material. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z And the comestible similes are irresistible when assessing this play’s bright and cloying flavors. ‘American Wee-Pie’ cooks up a sugary-sweet second chance 2014-01-29T20:56:29Z I was especially impressed with their pinot gris, a grape that seems particularly susceptible in Alsace to cloying heaviness. Alsatian Wines Strike a Balance of Dry and Sweet 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z This work matches a sappy, cloying score to a creepy Hitchcockian story. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z As Thomson told me of the Apocalypse scent, “The cloying sweetness is what sticks in my nostrils. That is where the bile and dread hide in plain sight.” The Literal Stink of the Trump Apocalypse 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Probably “Manon” as well, along with Matthew Bourne’s cloying “Play Without Words.” Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z It was sweltering — a cloying, sultry, sticky heat more appropriate for primordial jungles than for Western Massachusetts. From Georgia to Maine: What I learned on a 6-month hike along the Appalachian Trail 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Getting a Muppet film right takes enormous precision of tone: it needs to be sentimental without being cloying, irreverent without being mean-spirited, aware of pop culture without relying on it as a crutch. Will Muppets 2 leave us feeling green? 2013-01-24T17:08:30Z Never cloying, always luminous and a perfect encapsulation of wonder. Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Mize, from Louisville, Ky., has a rare voice, sweet without being cloying, and weary without hopelessness. Playlist: Songs for the Feet, And Even the Heart 2010-10-08T15:49:00Z A jaunty retrospective tucked at the end of Showtime, Dream samples Captain Sensible's Happy Talk to almost cloying effect. Readers' panel: What's your favourite Dizzee Rascal moment? 2012-06-22T15:25:00Z But there are other, less cloying options, like saving the milk for the next time you crave Thai iced tea or dirty horchata. A Milky Cake Where More Is More 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But my biggest issue was the cloying and childlike Sarah Jo, whose narratively expedient naïveté worked my last frayed nerve. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z He is nice but not cloying, goofy but not dumb, smart but not snotty, and good-looking in a way that doesn’t make the rest of us feel too bad about ourselves. Movie Review: ‘This Is 40,’ From Judd Apatow and Starring Paul Rudd 2012-12-20T18:32:19Z Like his songs, he is funny, urbane, with a sweetness that doesn’t cloy. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The minuet was too cloying for my taste. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z Though not without flaws and too prone to sweeping, melodramatic outbursts that become predictable, even cloying, the opera is theatrically and musically effective. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Respect for nature spills over into cloying reverence. Review: A Big Cool Breeze of Rick Bass Stories 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z I’m not convinced there’s enough “spark” and find myself inwardly picking apart his appearance and his unwavering devotion to me, which I find soppy and cloying. My boyfriend and I are well matched, but I just don’t fancy him | Dear Mariella 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Similarly, “Fire Away,” the album closer, features cloying digital vocals by Kid Harpoon that add little. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z The conclusion is worth not giving away, but it’s heartwarming without being cloying. Review: Out of Luck, and Seeking a Strongman in ‘Mister Universo’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z At other times, a cloying style gets the better of him as we learn a little too much about the author’s parenting skills. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z By this point the lessons in keeping on keeping on even in the face of disaster begin to cloy, despite the winning performances from the cast. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z A few of the new songs are substandard Macca, especially "Is There Anybody Out There," an audience participation song that felt cloying and barely registered its desired response. Paul McCartney at Dodger Stadium: Fit, giddy and in vintage form 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Creamily comforting, but substantial enough to satisfy, soft and rich without being cloying, with an old-fashioned subtlety of flavour, it’s a simple, but nevertheless profound pleasure. How to make the perfect egg mayonnaise sandwich 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The straight-ahead glazed yeast doughnuts, in toroidal and twist forms, are dark, fragrant and honeyed, a quality that should not be confused with cloying sweetness. Pursuits: Twists and Turns Along a Kentucky Doughnut Trail 2012-11-04T03:27:20Z The repertory amounts to a mother lode of boomer nostalgia, and Mr. Elling could easily have made it solicitous or cloying. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z Finally, there was cloying sentimentality — presumably the big Thanksgiving dinner we saw took place in the same dewy spirit world the “Lost” folks reunited in a few years back. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Cashew milk flavored with vanilla and cinnamon was a little cloying, but ... The Juice Cleanse: A Strange and Green Journey 2010-10-27T21:21:00Z There seems to be something for everyone here, from surprising modern street-art-inspired canvases to cloying pastoral scenes. Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I will never forget the cloying sweetness of SC, nor the massive headache and prolonged sense of self-disgust it generated the following morning. Surprise! Southern Comfort Has No Whiskey. But Soon It Will. 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The flavors are funky, crisp and acidic, and usually bone dry — nothing like the cloying, over-carbonated ciders you too often find on tap in the United States. In Spanish Basque Country, Sampling Cider and an Ancient Ritual 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Seattle Rep mounts a strident, ghostly revival of the Tennessee Williams play about a Southern family ruled by the mother of all cloying mothers. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Nov. 11, 2012 2012-11-09T19:19:42Z It was just 8 a.m., but the heat was intense: a hot, humid, cloying sensation that had us sweating profusely in a matter of minutes. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z A Hapless Musician Can’t Quiet His Inner Child Ryan O’Nan’s “Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best” is all about the inner child — that and the open road and the cloying, precious excesses of indie rock. Movie Review: ‘Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,’ Directed by Ryan O’Nan 2012-09-21T22:00:07Z Lieberher, who appeared in “St. Vincent,” more than holds his own as a wise-beyond-his-years kid who never seems cloying or precocious. “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The sticky toffee pudding, though a touch cloying, hit the spot. At Black Ivy in Edinburgh, Little Luxuries and a Big Breakfast 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Within two weeks of getting his most recent job, a video shot in the manner of an “ABC News Special Report,” and posted on the popular site Vimeo, called Mr. Sherwood “shallow and cloying.” Slings and Arrows? Nothing New to Him 2011-03-11T21:48:41Z An open, democratic distribution of that excitement may be what saves Mr. Cohen from veering into cloying fandom. The Six Degrees of Andy Cohen 2011-01-07T22:42:55Z Unless the moments when she kneels to press his hand to her cheek are played with fresh emotion, they cloy. Critic?s Notebook: Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? Occurs in a Child?s World 2012-01-01T23:17:55Z Even the sweeter boal and malmsey wines are not cloying, their sugar balanced by acidity. Why you should crack open a bottle of the wine that’s ‘indestructible’ 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s inspirational but far from cloying, with an invigorating, driving tempo. Band To Watch: Ages and Ages Premiere New Track “I See More” 2014-02-06T17:37:08Z Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Hail, Caesar!’ and ‘Love Actually’ 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z But when his cheerleading enthusiasm is pushed too far it can start to cloy, as it did on Saturday, and you wish he would lean more to the dark side. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway Songbook at Town Hall 2010-04-18T22:13:00Z Obviously any person, regardless of gender, who aspires to some form of urbanity will lament aspects of new parenthood, which ushers in a regime of cloying songs, egregiously-colored plastics and inane books. “If your child needs socking, sock him!”: How reading about pregnancy almost ruined me 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z I absolutely hate sweet wines, which I find to be too cloying. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But the cloying palette and indifferent brushwork suggest a conceptual agenda, in line with his earlier appropriations of X-rays of Manet’s “Bar at the Folies-Bergère.” Art in Review: JORDAN KANTOR 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z This time, the company wanted to create something a little more personable, and kisses.burberry.com is certainly cute without being cloying. On the Runway Blog: Burberry’s Kiss and Sell 2013-06-12T16:40:17Z An inevitable consequence of this chummy idolatry is that the playful tone begins to feel rather cloying. ‘The Pez Outlaw’ Review: Sweet and Lowdown 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Likely this has to do with the preference of Isabella Rossellini — who conceived, co-directed and performs this piece about animals’ thoughts and communications — for surreal humor over cloying sentimentality. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z We didn’t want to show anything overly dramatic or cloying.”’ Making Coming Attractions More Attractive 2013-02-01T13:00:00Z It is a hoot to watch Swinton putting Mason through her paces, buck-toothed, cloying and twitchy, by turns insulting and soothing the restless throng as she moves through the train. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z If Martin pulls her punches at the end and closes on a cheerful note more reminiscent of Zadie’s cloying early observations, that doesn’t detract from the haunting exploration of the effects of lifelong shame. A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z All began to cloy well before the conclusion of this egregiously long work, directed by May Adrales. Critic?s Notebook: Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries 2011-04-04T21:55:20Z Cream cheese provides a slightly acidic tang that counters powdered sugar-based frosting's cloying tendency in a way that butter simply can't. How to soften cream cheese (and bake your heart out with it) 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z But before such moments can cloy, Arbery usefully complicates his case. ‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z What was charming becomes cloying, and Jamie’s ingratiation – even grooming of Josh – becomes slippery, sinister. While We're Young: Ben Stiller has a hipster replacement in brilliant comedy 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z That's especially true if the cocktail is made with the cloying julep mix found at the supermarket or big-box liquor stores. What do Kentucky bartenders actually think of mint juleps? 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The orchestral sound as the shadows began to gather at the end was marvellously textured – rich but not cloying, dark but not opaque. LSO/Davis ? review 2011-03-23T17:41:58Z “It was very sweet and cloying,” he says. Chai latte: the all-conquering beverage causing a storm in a coffee cup 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Several drinks here involve aquavit, a historic Scandinavian schnapps — the old-school kind, not like the cloying products we Americans call “schnapps.” Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But the story is thin, the songs have a generic ring and the I’ve-Gotta-Be-Me sentimentality gets cloying. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z A few days later it was a totally different story, with thick, fluffy pancakes sporting generous chunks of the smoky meat that helped tame the cloying sweetness that dominated our first order. Ten 01 features big views and small plates from the Ben’s Chili Bowl team 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The cloying sweetness that permeated much of the cooking in the restaurant’s early days is for the most part gone. Review | A chef steeped in tacos takes Mexican cuisine on an upscale ride 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t Cleveland’s back story that people found compelling, like some cloying “American Idol” package. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But you were not left with a cloying feeling. Thrilling and Joyless? The Polarity of Sweet Riesling 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z They are puffy and sentimental, the cinematic equivalent of a cloying dessert following an otherwise well-prepared meal. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The hint of acidity prevents the sauce cloying. Nigel Slater’s pancetta, cream and leafy greens recipe 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The texture is tender, almost fruity, and the sweetness is elegant, not cloying. What are marrons glacés from "The French Dispatch"? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z There's something cloying about a lot of social network games in their continual entreaties to pester your friends. This week's new games 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z In fact it yields a less cloying, more balanced, more nuanced dessert. The easiest chocolate cheesecake in the world 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z What she had was a bottle of cheap Lambrusco: fizzy, cloying, and about on par with a wine cooler as far as complexity of flavor goes. Yes, there are sparkling red wines that taste good 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a thoroughly enjoyable story that tugs at the heart strings without much cloying sappiness. How's That Again? Tree of Life Ties With... Beginners at Gotham Film Awards 2011-11-29T20:52:38Z “It is right on the razor’s edge of a slightly cloying smell and actually smelling good,” she said. Is That the Enticing Smell of Spaghetti Cooking? Nope, It’s a Candle. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z But the same cloying vision of an auriferous Burma that was so seductive to Rajkumar, and which Ghosh both celebrates and dismantles, still draws visitors. The Rangoon of The Glass Palace 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z I bit into the baklava, and the sensation was immediately fragrant from the pistachios, then buttery, then crunchy and finally intensely sweet, but not cloying. A Turkish Town Where Baklava Beckons 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Avoiding the danger of allowing the music to cloy or become too sweet, Davis was particularly strong on the work's emotional trajectory: from turmoil and dislocation, through rapture, to a mood of sated calm. A Mass of Life – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-12T16:00:01Z Syms’s many avatars are a record of survival in a cloying media atmosphere. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z More often than not, though, it led to tone-deaf and cloying products that made you wince, from "i am sam" and "Rain Man" to "Forrest Gump." Sia's directorial debut "Music" is a baffling and patronizing cringefest of ableist minstrelsy 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The festivities begin with a cloying segment in which the adult actors portray fourth graders performing an unorthodox Christmas pageant in a small town in Menard County, Ill., where Lincoln spent his early adulthood. | 'Abraham Lincoln?s Big, Gay Dance Party': Chris Smith Directs a Play More or Less About Lincoln 2010-08-12T03:30:00Z “There’s a cloying liberal attitude at the moment,” he said, “a culture of trying to shame people. I think in private people are really sick of it.” Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The book is not cloying or straightforward or sentimental, yet, writes Ellie Robins in our review, it is an “achingly tender novel.” Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z In fact, if anything in “Olive and the Bitter Herbs” actually cloys, it is Olive’s own peevishness, strangely enough. | 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Co-Op?s Old Crank Finds a Fresh Spirit 2011-08-17T02:30:38Z Almost a year and a half after it opened on Broadway and nearly four years after its Royal Shakespeare Company debut, “Matilda” is neither stale nor cloying. The Matildas Keep Growing Up, but the Musical Stays Sly 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The new drink is less cloying than many ruby ports; it’s redolent of strawberries, like any respectable rosé should be, and with a hint of citrus, lending it a pleasant acidity. Not your grandfather's port: will fortified wine ever enjoy a revival? 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s cloying, and she sounds unremarkable outside her genre. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Hamilton, like Ms. Rabe an exemplary stage actor with much experience, is particularly ill served by the incessant need to address his wife in cloying terms of endearment like “squirrel,” “little songbird” and “skylark.” | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z The sweetness was just right; it wasn’t cloying or too sugary, and there was a dash of spice. Sweet discoveries on the stroopwafel circuit in Amsterdam 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The stiff-upper-lip sentimentality implicit in this perspective, and in the play’s portrait of its hero’s tragically thwarted imagination, could cloy. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z The men I treat overwhelmingly talk about either nonfiction titles with subjects I find dull — politics or business — or light, funny books about fatherhood that I tend to find cloying. Your Therapist’s Prescription? The Right Book. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The sweeter spices threaten to hijack the brew, but the tea adds a slight astringency that dries out the back of the throat and keeps the taste from being cloying. Can a simple tea bag turn Coors Light into something worth drinking? 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z There’s nothing necessarily unrealistic about this preoccupation with sex, but the show’s treatment of it is both cloying and slightly repellent. Television Review: ‘Underemployed,’ Craig Wright MTV Series, With Michelle Ang 2012-10-15T21:24:38Z In this case, the very worst brings out the very best, but not in a cloying or sentimental way. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z All the while, the relentless use of slow-motion with equally cloying music shares too much with a nature documentary. ‘American Ballet Theater: A History,’ a PBS Documentary, Is a Love Letter to a Dance Form 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Famous Grouse is a wee bit on the wrong side of musky and slightly cloying. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The Steamed Beef and Insam was spoon-size pieces of tender beef, with onion and roasted chestnuts in a sweet, but not cloying, sauce and slivers of charred garlic. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z The absence of story may needle some theatergoers, and the deliberate naïveté may cloy. Review: Back in Black, in a White Snowscape, in ‘La Mélancolie des dragons’ 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Jenkins’s work acidly critiques the cloying simplifications of mass media, yet beams with the excitement of holding the means of production. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z What wasn’t cloying in that finale on Sunday was the music — the orchestra swirling and shining, the chorus rich and full-bodied. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead, charm abounds: not cloying, but without consequence. Review: In ‘Principles of Uncertainty,’ Talking and Dancing About the Weather 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The novel hangs on the delicate tension of that deadpan adolescent voice — never cute, never cloying. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Even if you don’t know “Sweat,” though, “Clyde’s” may slightly cloy. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z None of this should be a surprise, because Hallmark movies, as cloying and saccharine as they are, constitute the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda. Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z It could have been cloying, but here again Mr. Wainwright drew upon the subtleties he is capable of as a composer to beguiling effect. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z These wines are indisputably sweet, but the acidity cleans away any cloying sensation, leaving a dry, refreshing feeling after swallowing. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z This is a very good thing: songs like “Christmas Time is Here” and “Linus and Lucy” are far less cloying than most Christmas tunes. Your week in Seattle music: X, The Moondoogies and The Maldives and more 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z This Australian cartoon is geared toward preschoolers and is one of the sweetest — but not cloying — kid shows in ages. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The same sweetness that had people swooning in its arms during in first season became cloying . . . to some . . . in its second. OK "Ted Lasso" fans, time to have a conversation about our dear, wonderful Sam Obisanya 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The result is less cloying than a soft drink. 6 Innovated Iced Coffees 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Whimsy Teased From Molten Beginnings Some of the art in “Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way,” a whimsical but cloying midcareer survey at the Brooklyn Museum, can strike you as the sculptural equivalent of haute couture. Art Review: ‘Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-08-23T20:26:09Z Kevin Wilson scrapes away all the cloying sentimentality that so often sticks to young characters. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A large amphitheater, hung with fading reels of film, is a monument to possibility and decay, from its upper light-filled balconies to the cloying tunnels beneath the stage. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Or emerge so cloying you abandon your slice for more Ranch Fun Dip instead. Oh, that's what key lime pie was missing 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z That’s the effect — both stultifying and cloying — of the musical “A Second Chance,” which opened at the Public Theater on Sunday night. Theater Review: In ‘A Second Chance,’ Singing New York Lovers 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z Never cloying, she comes at her role simply and without affectation, and suggests that happiness is less birthright than stubborn spiritual discipline. Review | Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls how it went from there. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It helps keep the movie's oft-repeated message about choosing to do the right thing even in tough times from turning cloying. In 'Cinderella,' goodness and fairy tale innocence rule 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In Kuala Lumpur, even curry noodles often verged on cloying. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z What really sets this bar apart is the fragrance: a sophisticated mix of vetiver, patchouli, tobacco and other spices that lingers without cloying. | Black Soap 2011-01-03T15:30:57Z For years Cork flourished as the neighborhood’s lone fine-dining spot, serving avocado toast long before it became a cloying trend. The Black Cat is shrinking by half. Why? Because punks don’t live there anymore. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z That may be the difference between a wine that is cloying and one that is refreshing. When Simplicity Can Be a Winemaking Virtue 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Where the drawing bursts from the page with sparkling life, the painting seems both bland and slightly cloying. Free hand 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film “noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Taraji’s White Hot Holidays’ and ‘SuperMansion: War on Christmas’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the toughest things for rappers at any level to pull off is writing strong, earwormy hooks that aren’t cloying. The 17 best Seattle-area albums of the year (so far) 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It is a golden age of hip-hop television, and for the moment, the standard in soft-focus nostalgia is “Untold Stories of Hip Hop,” on WE tv, hosted by the mellifluous, sometimes cloying Angie Martinez. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Your palate is immediately hit with a minerality, followed by fresh biscuit, and just a touch of honey that is sweet but not cloying. The 5 best non-alcoholic beers we know 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z All that’s eventually left is two piles of dust, bits of which are sprinkled together for a cloying ending. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z “These are two people who watch over each other, without being cloying or dysfunctionally protective.” Maggie Daley dies 2011-11-25T03:08:00Z Glenn Seven Allen was a mesmerizing Quint, singing with agility and a sweetness that grew appropriately cloying or menacing. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Impossibly young and sweet, they ought to cloy, and yet somehow they don’t. ‘Gertrude Stein Saints!’ Sets Vivid Words to Music 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z He won the 1990 Grammy for best instrumental pop performance for the number, which was, according to the Allmusic website, “dark, cloying and obsessive — and one of the best scores ever written for television.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But that’s merely a milieu — the real vividness in “Hindsight” is in the storytelling and acting, which is earnest without being cloying. ‘Hindsight’ Is a New VH1 Series 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Older Together appears to be a cloying step too far until you realise it's about Jack's mother. New band of the day – Black Light Dinner Party (No 1,469) 2013-03-12T16:11:55Z Steer clear of the roasted Brussels sprouts, too, hard as marbles and cloying in their sweetness. PassionFish Bethesda review: Pretty as the ocean, but the waters are choppy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s one of those rare feel-good comedies that never becomes too cloying or too crude. 'Groundhog Day' Is One Of The Best Holiday Comedies Of All time 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z We found it very sweet without being cloying, but as with most sweet apples it seemed better suited for dessert than for cooking. Winter apples with flavor and history 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But before experiencing it I wanted to revisit the band’s previous albums to see if I still found them as cloying as I recalled. Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do? 2011-10-27T15:15:56Z Karabits homed in on the vivid character of each movement without allowing any cloying sentiment. BSO/Karabits – review 2012-11-30T17:56:34Z Embracing sentimentality in every scene, this occasionally endearing and often cloying film examines what it means to mourn someone who was already gone. ‘Little Big Women’ Review: Heartbreak is a Family Affair 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The snarker sees a collection of Hummel figurines and issues a sharp witticism connecting their cloying aesthetic to, say, the Trump campaign. Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z To go with a round chocolate tart, like a brownie with a melted center, she lightly curries bananas, using slightly green ones so they’re not too cloying. Restaurant Review: Narcissa in the Standard East Village 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z That it does this without becoming cloying is miraculous. A new season "The Bear" marinates a great show into a superb exploration of purpose 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z These performers cut through the swelling music and sometimes cloying earnestness to put across some valuable emotional truths. ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z But it’s so sweet, and dry in parts, that even the dessert die-hards put down their forks after a cloying bite or two. RPM Italian review: If only it tasted as good as it looks — and feels 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Theater 'The Glass Menagerie' Seattle Rep mounts a strident, ghostly revival of the Tennessee Williams play about a Southern family ruled by the mother of all cloying mothers. James Bond, Abe Lincoln, plus 14 things to do this week 2012-11-12T15:01:13Z And it keeps pulling us out of Mr. Sorey’s hypnotic textures and tempos, making the piece — at 90 minutes already too long, with a particularly unwieldy, cloying late instrumental interlude — feel even longer. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In contrast, the subsequent two seasons have routinely missed the mark, depicting adolescence as a time of cloying sweetness and unbearable cruelty. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Believe it or not, several wineries in New Jersey make great sweet wines that are well balanced and not cloying like the sweet wines of yore. Thrilling and Joyless? The Polarity of Sweet Riesling 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Listen once to the winsome, open mic-night tune Age, and it's cloying. Lianne La Havas: Is Your Love Big Enough? – review 2012-07-07T23:05:10Z Once you move to the District, what really grates is the sweaty envy, the cloying eagerness, the frantic trading of acronyms by those nerdy student council members you once mocked in high school. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z But seen in succession with other Vermeers, and in contrast to the product of other artists, paintings such as Vermeer’s “Woman With a Pearl Necklace,” “The Astronomer” and “The Geographer,” begin almost to cloy. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The gorgeous lushness of it all began to cloy a bit as the evening wore on, and a bit more contrast might have been welcome. Prom 26: BBCSSO/Runnicles ? review 2011-08-04T10:13:53Z There was always something a little weird about Barrie’s cloying depiction of Wendy as the object of the Lost Boys’ maternal longings. Review | This charming new version of J.M. Barrie’s timeless play is all about girl power 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Lighter styles will have marked notes of strawberries, raspberries, and rhubarb; I like them on the drier side to keep the fruit from being cloying. Yes, there are sparkling red wines that taste good 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Best of all, it was resolutely fresh, with lively acidity, which made the wine entirely refreshing, unlike some Sauternes, which can seem cloying because they lack balancing acidity. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The Highwomen feel established in Nashville, but still worry about striking the right tone: honest but not didactic, inspired but not cloying. Country Music Is a Man’s World. The Highwomen Want to Change That. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A few details have been blurred, but the cloying atmosphere of safe-for-TV dating, neatly packaged women, and sentimental mush is instantly recognizable. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Like another Canadian import, the Broadway hit “Come From Away,” “Spoon River” exudes a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety. Review: What the Singing Dead Remember in ‘Spoon River’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z As in many Sparks films, "the performances never rise above the cloying material, though Eastwood acquits himself best, with an affable charm." 'The Longest Ride': Critics aren't bullish on Nicholas Sparks romance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Its version, called Preussen Weisse, is a summer beer for people who find the usual banana and clove flavors in hefeweizen too fruity and cloying. Beer of the Week: The Monarchy Preussen Weisse 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z She can be a little cloying in her emotional attachments to the same. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z This inevitably leads to a slightly cloying and hoary theatrical self-consciousness, with Christopher bossing around the performers of his mini-memoir. 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' Opens on Broadway 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z For decades now, popular culture and media have made a concerted effort — mostly laudable, occasionally cloying — to reclaim forgotten or maligned women. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z That’s fun for a while, but the illogicality eventually becomes self-absorbed and cloying. Review: ‘How to Get Into Buildings’ Finds Love Amid a Crash, a Duel and Soups of the Day 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The ale serves two functions: Besides brightening the sauce, it tempers the sweetness of the red onions and carrots nestled in with the beef, and keeps the dish from becoming cloying. Looking for Comfort? Turn to This Beef Stew 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Cho inserts strangers who serve as life counselors and guides for this trio, an entertaining gambit — though, in the end, a somewhat cloying one. Learning the words for love in ‘The Language Archive’ 2013-05-22T19:20:46Z It is unapologetically positive and optimistic without being cloying. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Largely elegiac in tone, this is very much a young man's work, with all the cloying sentimentality of adolescence. Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca – review 2013-04-05T16:40:01Z But Della — like “The Cake” itself, if you can get past its cloying elements — is nevertheless trying to grapple with something quite complex for a comedy. Review: ‘The Cake’ Is Well-Baked but Not Quite Filling 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z An full hour of cloying, self-indulgent, one-on-one toadying which proved that Ross was just as proficient at bumlicking as he was at teasing. Jonathan Ross: his BBC highs and lows 2010-07-16T12:57:00Z The cloying collard greens on the plate should also be rethought. Mulebone review: With a new chef’s help, Andy Shallal steps up his game 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The idea isn’t enhanced by Mr. Ek’s cloying movement vocabulary, in which dancers busily crouch or contract their bodies to unearth a heartfelt response. Dance Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joyce 2013-05-16T21:50:43Z The semi-sweet designation gave me pause, but this wine is well-made in the style and not at all as cloying as some sweet reds that are not as transparent in their labeling. These 3 delicious wines are kosher for Passover and start at $12 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Though the series is warmhearted, it’s never cloying. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Her delivery is sometimes cloying, sometimes deeply absorbing. Review: Bending It Like Bharatanatyam 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z For all its cloying sweetness, “La Promenade” is quite unsentimental about the custom of showing off your well-dressed children in public. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z The added seasonings, mostly oregano, overpowered the taste of these cloying Roma tomatoes. The Best Canned Tomatoes 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s cloying and sanctimonious, manipulative in all the worst ways, and it plays to almost all of Robin Williams’ worst impulses. 'It made my children cry': when real-life figures hate their biopics 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s hard to beat a sitcom as a satirical target, and the bland, bathetic “House” is wide open, with its cloying “Three Men and a Three-Daughter Family” premise. Review: ‘Full House! The Musical!’ Lampoons a Ripe Sitcom Target 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The stories about boats and weaving have some charm, and help with a perennial difficulty for architects – how to justify a design, how to choose one approach over another – but they begin to cloy. Bishop Edward King chapel, Ripon College – review 2013-04-27T23:05:48Z The book’s steady cheer might cloy were it not punctuated by loneliness. Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The slightly sweet, cloying fragrance of rotting foliage hung in the air. Fashion Parties With the French President 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z At first sniff, I feared a cloying rush of liquid Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Sand, sun and craft beer in Florida 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The resulting brew is cloying but somehow tea-ish enough to satisfy my thirst. In Finland, giving in to Moomin madness He’s an inoffensive though sometimes cloying children’s party host presiding over a pleasant touristy production. Moscow Ballet Arrives With Its ‘Great Russian Nutcracker’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z And sings and sings and sings, cloying aria after cloying aria. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z If true, this means that we will never again be exposed to the cloying relationship advice of Sarah Jessica Parker. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z He’s a warm, earnest, sympathetic writer whose sentences rarely cloy because he’s wired just enough of them from beneath with a low, almost subliminal, sarcastic hum. Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in ‘The Locals’ 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z While sipping a horribly cloying margarita, I broke the bad news to Anna, my 5 ½-year-old daughter. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z His enthusiasm can veer into cloying dad humor, but his delight in forgotten artists is infectious. On Keegan-Michael Key’s Podcast, a Provocative Case for Sketch Comedy 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The chatter can be interesting, but it can also be cloying, and obsessed with its own semi-cleverness. “Bunheads” Adorable Nihilism 2012-07-17T14:22:00Z Also, as alluring as some of the music was, the arrangements and orchestrations, mostly by William Ross, were plush, thick and sometimes cloying. New York Philharmonic Begins Season at the Movies 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Speaking more delicately, W. S. Gilbert, in “Trial by Jury,” alluded to the flip side of the male fondness for variety with the knowing line, “Love unchanged will cloy.” Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Travers felt that Disney had trivialized her book, transforming it into a cloying musical. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z There are cloying moments, like when Laura spends two very special episodes climbing a mountain to get close to God. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Little House on the Prairie’ 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z But sometimes, new words kinda bite — When they’re trendy and cloying And downright annoying, Such as this one right here — AMIRITE? Style Invitational Week 1460: These new words are on fleek 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He’s not above leaning on cloying music and groaner contrivances to milk empathy. ‘Mars One’ Review: Hope on the Horizon 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z If anything, the best American rosés today are exactly what one would want: brisk and refreshing, subtle and savory, never cloying or fatiguing. American Rosés Without Clichés 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The great art critic Robert Hughes once charged Chagall with manufacturing “cloying ethnic kitsch.” With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Peach and black pepper frangipane tart Peach and almond are made for one another, but they can verge on cloying if a third ingredient doesn’t perk them up. The art of tarts: recipes to make the most of your fruit | Ruby Tandoh 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z It isn’t particularly tart or racy, nor sweet and cloying. Kick off rosé season with this $9 French beauty 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z There are moments when the slapstick becomes slapdash – it's debatable whether the digressive improvisations based on Ghostbusters and The Lion King are really necessary, and the whole concept may be too cloying for some. Hamlet the Clown?Prince ? review 2011-03-09T19:45:00Z A bronzed half chicken nests among maple-kissed chestnut purée and butternut squash, a forthrightly sweet ensemble saved from cloying by a hint of truffle. re:public is a worthy addition to the South Lake Union restaurant scene 2011-02-24T20:36:06Z We use it frequently, in pasta and on pizza, with eggs and dumplings, to cut the cloy of macaroni and cheese. McDonald’s comes for sriracha: Assimilation, customization and the fast-food American Dream 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z But real sadness - sadness that isn't cloying or sentimental - is the hardest thing to convey. Pregnant pause 2011-06-03T07:50:38Z I normally find puddings overly sweet and cloying, but L'Artichaut's pink peppercorn and lime meringues with lemon curd and bitter chocolate sauce was one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. Eat and drink Edinburgh: readers' tips 2010-08-02T13:43:00Z But the fizz soon evaporated and, like so much opera, I was left with the cloying aftertaste of artfully constructed, spun-sugar confectionery. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z His performance at times gets cloying and pushy, like an overeager canvasser buttonholing you for votes. Review: Abzug and Fierstein, on the Same Ticket in ‘Bella Bella’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The overall impression is dry rather than cloying, making this a delicious summer sipper on its own or with dessert. Beer of the Week: Hardywood Park Virginia Blackberry 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z That, plus a cloying — but purely verbal — deference to questions of institutional loyalty are calculated to conceal as knife-sharp a set of elbows as any accomplished bureaucrat ever swung. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z The stories have a tinge of sentimentality that sometimes shades into something more cloying, but Mr. Evers knows his characters well. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Bonus points for the line about not buying him a gift, but it’s because all he wants for Christmas is your lips, which is the most sickly cloying ploy for teenaged iTunes buys ever. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z And when the film gets cloying and manipulative with a last-act accident that threatens the life of one of Ben’s kids, the film becomes really unbearable. Worst of 2016: 10 movies that failed spectacularly to deliver on their promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In part the problem is a cloying, saltwater taffy tone. ‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z A great many people love this movie to the point of being obnoxious about it on social media, and its vibe of earnest, energetic, slightly cloying emotional openness was the evening’s dominant vibe. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The film’s early snark turns as cloying and insincere as the cultural doublespeak that it parodies. ‘Senior Year’ Review: Oops! She’s Prom Queen Again. 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing cloying about this unabashedly sweet story — and nothing unambitious about it, either. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z This would explain why a half-eggplant in which glazed slices of pickled eggplant ride like passengers in a canoe had an intoxicating richness the first time I ate it and a cloying heaviness the next. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z With her sister Anna she built a body of work, from the mid-1970s on, that dwelled in clear-eyed sentiment, rarely sounding mannered or cloying. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z That cloying love poem, “How do I love thee?” Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Though her voice was sometimes lost in the large theater and her high notes sometimes squeezed, Ms. Bullock made her saintly character sincere without being cloying. Review: A ‘Rake’s Progress’ for a Fame-Hungry Internet Age 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The danger with the material is that its daffy sweetness can grow cloying. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Whether or not you find the scene of Clay and his friends’ circle of compassion heartfelt or cloying may depend a lot on your age and experience. How 13 Reasons Why continues to turn teenage pain into a soap opera 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z This very sweet version is just saved from cloying by gingered bok choy and jasmine rice. Ray’s Boathouse still sails on service and fresh seafood 2013-05-30T19:49:42Z For “West Side Story” he wrote “poetic” lyrics that Bernstein loved but that embarrassed their author — yet also produced, as the collaboration matured, lacerating lines that never cloy. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Like many opera fans, I usually find Massenet musically thin and emotionally cloying. Music Review: A New ‘Werther’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-02-19T11:01:44Z But this is delicious and refreshing, with a strong finish of ruby red grapefruit and just enough sweetness without being cloying. Stocking up on rosés for summer? Start here. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s a pity that the omakase ends with unagi in a sauce as cloying and perfunctory as at any middling sushi bar across America. Omakase, on a Deadline, at Sushi on Jones 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It tasted much lighter than it looked and wasn’t cloying in the least. The Tipsy Diaries: The Eggnog Resisters? League 2010-12-09T16:36:00Z And early movie adaptations, directed by men and catering to social norms of virtuous, self-sacrificing womanhood, rendered Marmee cloying and flat. Really Seeing Marmee: Oh, How ‘Little Women’s’ Matriarch Has Changed 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z I have always found Bellow’s artfulness to cloy over the length of his longest novels. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But the admirably restrained work here of Foucheux and Jacobson not only skirts the more cloying possibilities, it also ensures that we experience fully the force of the show’s poignant authority. Willkommen once again to ‘Cabaret’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Inevitably succumbing to schmaltz, “The Change-Up” turns cloying in its perfunctory later scenes, in which each friend comes away from the ordeal having absorbed useful life lessons while in the body of his polar opposite. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z Yet listeners will be buoyed, no doubt, by Martin and Okell's successful muting of Spector's cloying post-production work on Harrison's "I Me Mine" and, in an especially fine instance, McCartney's "The Long and Winding Road." The definitive version of the Beatles' "Let It Be" doesn't exist — but this new deluxe remix sizzles 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead of corn syrup, I use a combination of maple syrup and honey, which makes the mixture less cloying while adding complex earthy and floral notes. The Absolute Best Pumpkin, Apple and Pecan Pies for Thanksgiving 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z "It's easy to lose sight of the music with all the surrounding Lennonphilia that, over the next few weeks, will be particularly cloying and suffocating," said Brian Boyd, music columnist for the Irish Times. Memorials, merchandise for Lennon 70th anniversary 2010-10-06T15:51:00Z I found his novel to be cloying at times, as Mr. Foer’s fiction can sometimes be. Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z “Why You No Love Me” repeats the title phrase, the plea of a child, ad nauseam, past cute and cloying all the way to irksome. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Yes, after years of bitter animosity – and a few months of slightly cloying chumminess – it's been announced that Robbie Williams has officially rejoined . Robbie Williams rejoins Take That: you wanted him back for bad 2010-07-15T16:50:00Z Take "Winner's Circle," the most gratuitous stab at stadium and/or strip club ubiquity since Eminem's "Lose Yourself," but way more cloying. 50 Cent makes another horrible pitch with 'Animal Ambition' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The panels offer snippets of the lyrics of “Home” in noodly digital handwriting, embellished by cloying graphics of butterflies and flowers. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The piece itself admirably suits Harding's slightly detached way with Strauss, which allows him to be sensuous yet never cloying. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z When Janet, his youngest child with Katherine, turned sixteen, Jackson negotiated a recording contract for her, with A&M Records; under his supervision, she made two cloying and mostly unremarkable pop albums. The Twisted Legacy of the Stage Dad Joe Jackson 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z She manages to be cloying, cutting and New Age at the same time. Little Fockers Review: Stiller vs. DeNiro, Round 3 2010-12-21T04:40:00Z What could have been a cloying hagiography or a lurid warts-and-all exposé is instead a balanced, focused and compelling study of a man of depth and individuality. The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But then, Cleopatra was supposed to have been remarkable precisely because by contrast, “other women cloy the appetites they feed.” Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Froseth makes a fine, natural impression as Nan; as presented here, the character is almost Dickensian in her selflessness, but the actress makes her feel fresh without being cloying. Review: 'The Buccaneers' may be more 'Bridgerton' than Edith Wharton 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z It smells like a fresh-baked persimmon cake and bubbling cinnamon cider at once, but without any cloying aromas of either. 19 gifts that make life easier in the kitchen for cooks and food lovers 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z She had the face, the figure, the hair, the smile, the giggle, the wiggle, and enough good humor to make her breakout “dumb blonde” character on “Three’s Company” lovably watchable rather than cloying or offensive. Before Goop, there was Suzanne Somers 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The meticulously constructed plot, while somewhat predictable, almost has the feel of a fable without ever becoming cloying. Books about books are catnip for avid readers. This week there's a bumper crop 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z It tastes better, and because it is less cloying, it balances better with the rum. There’s a sweet subtext to the Cuba Libre beyond its sugary ingredients 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Crushed ice, meanwhile, dilutes cocktails quickly because of its high surface area, creating the refreshing, slushy consistency found in juleps that would taste too cloying otherwise. Climate-Friendly Cocktail Recipes Go Light on Ice 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z I added horseradish and hot sauce for a kick, and just enough ketchup to tint the sauce pale pink without letting it cloy. A better shrimp cocktail is closer than you think 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z “This looks so good,” the 33-year-old coos, flashing a grin indiscernible from her more cloying online characters. How lampooning L.A.'s most unlikable characters on TikTok helped comedian Caitlin Reilly break into TV 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z I was losing patience with the bot’s cloying tone. ChatFished: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With A.I. 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z The fake poetry of it all becomes cloying, even for a native New Yorker who has sentimental leanings in this direction. 'New York, New York’ the film is not good. The new Broadway musical is worse 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z As I sipped, I considered the various mediocre-ritas I’ve encountered — the too-diluted, the cloying, those dragged down by the lemon Pledge flavor of bad sour mix or Splitting Headache brand tequila. The spicy margarita is everything we want in a warm-weather drink 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Here’s a simple, tasty red for weeknight burgers or take-out, full of cherry pie flavors and a sweetness that rounds out the palate without becoming cloying. Perspective | Pair this fruity $13 Spanish red with burgers or takeout 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “He was a cheesily handsome, extremely successful singer-songwriter,” she says, “who specialized in cloying pop music and was known for dating models in their early twenties.” Review | Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Romantic Comedy’ finds love in an SNL-like place 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Traditional cherry liqueur, the only drink served in the bar where 24-year-old Dmytro Sakhyiuk works, might sound like a cloying concoction, but the establishment is part of a popular chain found all over Ukraine. After a year of war, six Ukrainians share how their lives have changed 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Because it was less cloying, Starry’s citrus flavor read cleaner and crisper than in the older formula. Pepsi replaced Sierra Mist with Starry, and it tastes awfully familiar 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Identity politics and diversity allow liberals to wallow in a cloying moral superiority, disguising their passivity in the face of corporate abuse, neoliberalism, permanent war and the curtailment of civil liberties. Diversity, "wokeness" and violent oppression: Lessons of the Tyre Nichols case 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z As cloying as this interpretation may be, there’s something soothing about its wholehearted vision of the “found” family and its virtues. Review | ‘A Man Called Otto’: Remake of Swedish film adds heart, loses soul 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Some are wearing flip flops, but they are still sure-footed as they clamber up the steep bank through cloying mud. Sierra Madre: The deadly battle to save a rainforest in the Philippines 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z As soon as its heavy metal door is cracked open, the cloying smell of death rushes out. Ukraine war: How pathologists identify victims of Russia's invasion 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z It sometimes borders on cloying but never crosses the line. ‘Violent Night’ review: David Harbour a delightful mix of naughty and nice 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Identity politics and diversity allow liberals to wallow in a cloying moral superiority as they castigate, censor and deplatform those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech. Diversity, "wokeness" and violent oppression: Lessons of the Tyre Nichols case 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z “I love sugar,” says Ong, the talent behind the walnut prawns, which steer clear of the usual cloying glop. Review | Worth the wait: Peter Chang finally opens a Chinese restaurant in D.C. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The chef turns to the critic and screams: “I am not cloying, I am not needy, I don’t care what you think! You’re not getting to me!” Perspective | A real-life food critic reviews on-screen food critics 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Cleveland sage, her favorite and mine, falls happily in the middle, with a dusty, slightly honeyed perfume that is intense but never cloying. The most fragrant native plants are just heavenly. Here's what to plant now 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Before Mr. Biden was elected, Mr. Xi had grown used to cloying overtures from an American president. For Biden and Xi, a Long Relationship With Rising Mutual Suspicion 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The eel hand roll is not good, its incinerated taste and dryness augmented by a cloying sauce. Restaurant review: A very sad lunch at Seattle’s Sugo Hand Roll Bar 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The air in the basement room was slowly filling with formaldehyde, which carried with it a cloying odor. The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Residents dug through the cloying mud by hand to try to find survivors. Venezuela landslides: Dozens killed as homes swept away 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Right away, this seems like a rough recipe for the cloying mystery punch of “Mirrors,” with its falling violins, swelling cellos and streaky-windowed minor-key melodrama. Perspective | The QAnon ‘anthem’ is a familiar sales tool — with strings attached 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “The Good House” strikes a similarly cloying tone. Review | Not-so-great ‘The Good House’ plays like an alcoholism-themed rom-com 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Greer’s task is to ground the absurdity in tenderheartedness without being cute or cloying. Review: 'Less Is Lost,' sequel to a Pulitzer winner, finds a path to both satire and tears 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z I was aiming for a sweet-salty combination with interesting mix-ins that would put these cereal bars a couple notches above traditional crispy rice treats, which can be cloying and visually uninspiring. Try these no-bake cereal bars for to beat the heat 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Dip a toe into red state America and you'll be bombarded with cloying bumper stickers and Facebook memes about how motherhood is the "toughest job in the world." GOP's post-Roe reveal: Republicans don't think raising children is real work 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Through it all, Manville treads a delicate line perilously close to making Mrs. Harris cloying, but somehow never oversteps. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’ review: Lesley Manville charms in this airy trip to the City of Light 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Behind this lies a web of problems that include a rapidly ageing population, a low-skilled workforce, cloying red tape, a slow and dysfunctional justice system and chronic under-investment in education, infrastructures and new technology. Ten years on, Draghi faces debt crisis words won't solve 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “Marcel the Shell” may verge, or even tip, into cloying territory — such is the ever-present danger of googly eyes. ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ review: It just takes one googly eye to see the bright side of things 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Just make sure to choose ones without added sugar or risk a more cloying flavor. This four-ingredient no-churn recipe makes it easy to enjoy vegan peanut butter-maple ice cream 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The texture is ample without being flabby or cloying. Perspective | Make this $11 malbec your summer grilling partner 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z I remember tasting that cloying sweetness on my tongue for hours afterward. A decade ago, I never could have imagined 19 school children could be murdered. Now I can 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The play’s perspective is of an older, troubled Li’l Bit, who struggles to divest herself of Peck’s cloying attentions. Review | Martin McDonagh, Paula Vogel add to spring bounty on Broadway 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Pseudo-intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence. Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled 20 years of carnage in the Middle East are back for more 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z In these dreamscapes, men are less an open threat than a vaguely cloying aura, like the lavender-scented perfume into which blots dissolve once they have secured your credit cards. Review: Flipping the gender script on menacing literary androids 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Ironically, the cloying values of sentimentality and gentility made space for middle-class women to grow and flourish, and build their strength for greater challenges to male power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Japanese film soundtracks are just wall-to-wall cloying emotional music,” she says. Eiko Ishibashi and the melodies that carry ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z And the frosting was still a little cloying, even after it was cut with unsweetened whipped cream. Review | I tried one of Dolly Parton’s new cake mixes, and it got me out of my 9-to-5 funk 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z But it was also a time when being openly queer / gay wasn’t accepted, when cloying stereotypes had a much stronger hand in shaping teen social dynamics, when things were awkward and grungy. Yellowjackets’ first season is a collective fever dream 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z It is an old and insidious game, one practiced not to promote human rights or press freedom but to envelop these courtiers to power in a sanctimonious and cloying self-righteousness. PEN America, the "human rights" careerists and the betrayal of Julian Assange 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The lemon added just a little bit of citrus to offset the sweet, though I found that adding a little more lemon juice toned down the cloying factor. I tried hot Dr Pepper, and it’s better than you might think 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Owen: A touch cloying and sweet, the 2020 delivers very forward and sweetened ripe fruit flavors that deliver at this price point. Tan Vinh and a sommelier pick the best Costco wines to buy for the 2021 holiday season 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z On the face of it, a film about a middle-aged man who bonds with his nephew could potentially seem cloying. That chemistry Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman have in 'C'mon C'mon' is completely authentic 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z On their surface, amid clouds of insects attracted to the cloying sweetness of sugar turning to alcohol, Lalo had planted tiny bamboo crosses, a mark of his devout Catholicism. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But even without zombies or aliens, the post-doomsday companionship drama “Finch” starring Tom Hanks and a childlike droid is a tiring, cloying misfire. Review: Tom Hanks and A.I. are no match for 'Finch's' artificial giggles and tears 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z There is no trace of sugar, no cloy from traditional American-style pickle relish you usually get at the summer seafood shack. Fried Oysters Are Delicious. They’re Even Better at Home. 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z This edition comes off slightly better than the last vintage, with less cloying notes alongside orchard fruit flavors. Tan Vinh and a sommelier pick the best Costco wines to buy for the 2021 holiday season 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But together with the icing, it’s cloying, delivering only a faint pumpkin feel. Here are the 30 best (and worst) pumpkin-flavored foods at Trader Joe’s 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Feel-good yet not cloying, “Language Lessons” wraps its comforting graciousness around you and says, “No estás solo / You are not alone.” Review: Stars Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass align in feel-good tale 'Language Lessons' 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Why is sunblock lotion made in such cloying fragrances? Rant and Rave: Reader values act of kindness for their classroom 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Hibiscus can be astringent, and many temper its puckery qualities with sugar to a cloying effect. Sorel liquor is back, with a big investor and a goal to help lift up more Black distillers 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z What about, contrariwise, sweet relish, because somehow a cloying element is desirable with fish? How to make the very best tuna salad sandwich — from 5 top Seattle-area chefs 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Many other mochi doughnuts taste syrupy sweet or cloying in comparison. Tom Douglas reopens Dahlia Bakery and 31 other new restaurant openings in Seattle 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z In its blurry indistinctness, Monday’s sky seemed a visual counterpart of the cloying humidity that often compromises the picturesque possibilities inherent in summer at its best. July 5 seemed a fitting symbol of summer’s start in D.C. region 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z His shtick might be saccharine, bordering on cloying, but it’s consistent. Russell Wilson and his clichés are back — and so, apparently, is his commitment to the Seahawks 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Syrupy and cloying, it elicited some primal reactions. What’s the best hard seltzer? We tried 18 new flavors to find out. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z But there are times when even that team spirit is excessive and cloying. Letters: LeBron's shot was something to see 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z “Mealy,” “cloying sweetness” and “they are eww” are just some of the responses I got to an informal Twitter poll asking why people dislike them. Thick and chewy oatmeal raisin cookies are a classic for a reason 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Its many problems range from an ageing, shrinking workforce to a lack of public investment and a cloying state bureaucracy. Analysis: Call it karma? As Italy's PM, Draghi to face problems he helped create 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z For them, Trump's vulgarity was a welcome respite from the cloying language of inclusivity and political correctness used by the oligarchs to mask the crimes of monopoly capitalism. Papering over the rot: Joe Biden's window dressing can't end oligarchy 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s so cliche to say that you become part of their workplace family — that cloying Olive Garden slogan! — but it’s true. Perspective | There has never been a better time to discover the perks of being a restaurant regular 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Like parts of Gorman’s poem, these lines sound almost cloying when we read them silently — but a great delivery can imbue words with conviction, even a sense of spontaneity. Perspective | What made Amanda Gorman's poem so much better than other inaugural verse 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z I think maybe I should start with historical colours, but I can see the original colour of the walls under the layers of chipped paint: cloying pink. Burning the furniture: my life as a consumer 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The wine is quite cloying even if it finishes long, with overripe pear and a saccharin note. These are the best bargain wines from Costco 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Thirty years later, I still remember the particular gloom of lemon Table Talk pies with their floury pastry and cloying industrial filling that left a plasticky coating in my mouth. I grew up learning to cook what’s on hand, and now it’s my pandemic superpower 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Macdissi brings charm and warmth to the saintly Wally, though gets a bit too cloying in the process. Review: Strong performances can't redeem Alan Ball's heavy-handed 'Uncle Frank' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z That project's apogee came during the former president's funeral at the library in 1994, when President Bill Clinton delivered a cloying eulogy that bade farewell to the deceased "on behalf of a grateful nation." Perspective | Trump’s presidential library will be a shrine to his ego 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The ale serves two functions: Besides brightening the sauce, it tempers the sweetness of the red onions and carrots nestled in with the beef and keeps the dish from becoming cloying. Looking for comfort? Turn to this beef stew 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z I was familiar with this entitled, cloying tone from Ross. Tova O'Brien: my 'feral' interview with Covid-19 denier Jami-Lee Ross 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Don’t get me wrong — it was a welcome change of pace from can after can of cloying fruit bombs. Review | The hard seltzer market continues to expand, but many of the newest products fall flat 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Her impact is hard to quantify in a few minutes and these choices are a bit obvious and a bit artless for an otherwise smart and engaging film that avoids most cloying cliches. Review: A smart portrait of a living legend in ‘The Glorias’ 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And those store-bought, cloying, premade mixes were, to her, an absolute insult. How could you not love a pure piña colada — or the forbidden pirate who concocted it? 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The passion fruit, orange and guava don’t taste cloying or artificial like most POG juices; this juice is just evil, masking all the heat from the pineapple rum and bourbon. Cheers! Drinks writer Tan Vinh picks his 3 favorite cocktail to-go deals this month 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Weintraub’s writing is anachronistic, a battle between clever and cloying that, upon instant replay, lands just outside the line. Review | Tennis star, fashion designer, integration advocate . . . spy? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The house is “absolutely Victorian in construction, with its broken shingles, elaborate ornamentation, and dirty bay windows”; completing the portrait are a vast collection of silver plates and vessels and a cloying wine served nightly. The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The truth-telling of its nastier side inspired by the real version of history undercuts the earnestness of its wish-fulfillment, making it seem cloying and saccharine. Netflix miniseries Hollywood isn’t the inspiration it thinks it is 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z A few of the cuts, most notably “Chateau Mermaid,” “Lo and Behold” and “Winery Blues,” are cloying. Review: Canadian melody maker Ron Sexsmith finds serenity 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z This is not entirely a bad thing, and the movie, which begins streaming Friday on Disney+, emerges a generally charming, sometimes cloying exercise in wildlife anthropomorphism. Review: Disneynature doc 'Elephant' is gorgeous if much too obvious (tusk, tusk) 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The show wears its heart on its sleeve, and there’s danger in that — earnestness can be cloying, and sincerity without clarity is a one-way ticket to corniness. Dispatches From Elsewhere wants you to play more weird games with strangers 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z That nuance and reliance on character development and story progression are why the director takes personal offense when romance and romantic movies are written off as being cheesy or cloying. With 'The Photograph,' Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield revive the black romantic drama 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Hulse’s eagerness to do that excavation alleviates some of the more cloying elements of the story: Asa’s tested faith, the noisily symbolic names of the mines, sources of original sin and punishment. Review: S.M. Hulse stakes out a new frontier with 'Eden Mine' 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Part of the reason, apart from a message some find cloying, is Booker’s lack of a solid toehold in the crowded field. With so much promise, why is Cory Booker's campaign falling flat? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Just this side of cloying, but the picture is sufficiently self-aware that it doesn’t get mired in the maudlin. ‘Spies in Disguise’ review: Will Smith goes into 007 mode for this lively, sweet animated comedy 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Owen: The wine has a soft texture but comes off a touch cloying, with little richness or ripe fruit flavors. We reviewed a dozen of Costco’s private-label wines. Here are the best budget bottles to stock up on. 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z While we liked them both, we gave a slight edge to Guittard, which had a less cloying sweetness and more butter in the butterscotch. The best butterscotch, mint and peanut butter baking chips for when you need a chocolate alternative 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But Waititi never quite lands on a tone or style, and as “Jojo Rabbit” moves from comic absurdity to cloying sincerity, the movie turns both smug and sanitized. Here are the movies that could — and should — earn Oscar nominations for best picture 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z On the afternoon of 9 October, as Brianna Rojas’s mother came to recover her daughter’s corpse, the cloying stench of decomposing bodies hung in the air. Bloody Tijuana: a week in the life of Mexico's murderous border city 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z We detected the alcohol-forward profile of all of them — as well as a cloying sweetness we attributed to the namesake agave syrup — but we were divided on whether this was a good or bad thing. Review | Here’s the cold, hard truth about boozy canned coffee: Most of it is terrible 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z We detected the alcohol-forward profile of all of them — as well as a cloying sweetness we attributed to the namesake agave syrup —- but we were divided on whether this was a good or bad thing. Taste-testing boozy canned coffee: From terrible to OK | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The apple flavor keeps the Fireball from overpowering the drink, while not being too cloying. Why settle for a latte when you can have one of these pumpkin spice treats instead? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Like most sequels that exist for chiefly commercial reasons, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” isn’t a great movie; with its flat dialogue, overblown battles and cloying CGI critters, it’s not even a particularly good one. Review: Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer lock horns in 'Mistress of Evil,' an enjoyably deranged 'Maleficent' sequel 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Also, the opulence of the yacht is just a bit cloying, it sort of sticks in my throat. That smirk in the 'Succession' finale? Brian Cox calls it a 'look of triumph and disaster' 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a feminist anthem with cloying lyrics like “I’m not a poster on the wall, I’m not a porcelain doll, I think it’s funny how you think you run the show.” Review: Michaela Anne delivers spirited yet gentle new set 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The coconut flavor verges on the edge of overpowering but stops just short of being cloying. Which of the M&M’s flavors are worth trying? Definitely not all of them. | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Pratt, the Australian billionaire box maker with a ginger coiffure as flamboyant as Trump’s, has cultivated Republicans, and Trump in particular, with cloying full-page advertisements in the Wall Street Journal. Morrison visits an Australian box factory in Ohio – and the Trump crowd goes wild | Katharine Murphy 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z That cloying fear of failure will probably be enough to get her the win, but now the assuredness is missing, from her game and her tennis. Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams put 15-year feud on line at US Open 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z A potentially cloying image – corkscrew curls, lyrics thick on “daddy” and down-home values – were undercut by the fact she was evidently, endearingly, a bit of a freak, an unusual combination of intensity and artlessness. Taylor Swift: ‘Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators’ 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z When the cabin door closed, a sugary, cloying scent wafted through. ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out. 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z No Passover Seder seemed authentic without its square-shaped, ripple-faced matzo and a shot or more of the syrupy Concord grape wine that many find cloying yet nostalgic. ‘Man, Oh Manischewitz’: Kosher Food Merger Opens New Chapter for Famous Name 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z It also featured “delicious cookie and not too bad custard. But cloying and waxy — like there are too many gums for stabilizing.” Perspective | Who makes the best cookies-and-cream ice cream in the U.S.? We scooped up 15 top brands to find out. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Harris ignored the cloying remark and, noting the presence of reporters, turned sober: a policy point was coming. Kamala Harris Makes Her Case 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The use of music — more filler than necessary at times — is also cloying. Review | Toni Morrison is a great storyteller, in her books and in this new documentary 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet when it comes to the cloying “Killers Who Are Partying,” she’s overly blunt: “I’ll be Islam/If Islam is hated,” she sings with a faux British accent. Madonna offers a needy, trying-too-hard mess of an album 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The moist coconut is a little cloying and this is a disappointing thing to get during Halloween trick-or-treating, but there are far worse candy bars. The official candy bar power rankings 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The barbecue sauce they’re lacquered in is sweet but not quite cloying. Everything you need to know about the food at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The instructor was so cloying, and her rules so obvious and patronising, that I raised my hand and asked if it was OK to lick our plate after a meal. 'I wouldn't be the refugee, I'd be the girl who kicked ass': how taekwondo made me 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z California white Zinfandel is usually cloying or boring and most often both, a household name because it’s cheap and sweet. White Zin is in, again: Niccolo Coturri is giving one wine a new life 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z As it cooks, it turns soft and syrupy, but never cloying, thanks to its own brisk acidity and some lemons. That’s Some Spring Chicken: Easy roast chicken dressed up with an exquisite rhubarb glaze 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Our mom would kiss my sister and me good night as we choked on her cloying cloud of Chanel No. 5, the aroma Velcroing itself to my nose for hours afterward. Spring Cleaning 2019: Eight things to toss 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It seemed like a typically cloying comment from someone trying to curry favor. ‘Once I left here, everything was different’: Alex Rodriguez, back for ESPN broadcast, reflects on leaving Seattle and drama-filled career 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z A hunk of cauliflower with barbecue sauce leans to the cloying edge of sweetness. Review: At Alta Adams, Keith Corbin’s ‘California soul food’ bridges tradition and innovation 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z And while they are majorly sweet, they manage not to be cloying. The official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z First, the good: Meg’s shakes are coolly thick without being straw-impervious, sweet without being cloying. Meg’s Hamburgers make a satisfying downtown lunch — just beware the hot dog-hamburger hybrid 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z When you realize that Weezer’s 11th studio album was its lowest charting release in 23 years, the logic behind this year’s cloying, deservedly maligned all-covers “Teal Album” makes much more sense. California Sounds: A closer look at the Los Angeles-area artists headed to the Grammys 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It is thick but not sludgy, and sweet without being cloying. This rich homemade hot chocolate is the ultimate snow day treat 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They all had a similarly cloying fruit punch taste and silly packaging: Do not tell me to Just Chill. Perspective | I tried a dozen stress-relief snacks, tinctures and teas. So why am I still anxious? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Cap’n Crunch is so breathtakingly saccharine and so treacly, with an intense, cloying aftertaste that sticks to your molars, that I can’t get through more than a few bites. The official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Fans have, inevitably, complained about both kinds of endings — some people find the dark ones too cynical, some find the uplifting ones a little cloying. The missing endings we want in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Tickets start at $25, which is still cheaper than admission to less technically ambitious ventures such as the cloying pop-up Happy Place. Review: The Wisdome popup in DTLA fills five geodesic domes with some art and a lot of hot air 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z It is a debate, wrapped in cloying melodrama, over whether a particular land border should be used to check the quality of imported pork. Opinion | Brexit: The Most Boring Important Story in the World 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z But the season begins with a tooth-rottingly twee trip to Paris, followed by a cloying trip to the Catskills, a setting far better served by “Dirty Dancing.” The Cloying Fantasia of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The music tugs at your heart without becoming cloying. The 10 best video games of 2018 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z When it’s not, it’s annoying, cloying and LOUD! ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’: Sequel creates a web of clever, colorful, cloying moments 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Stella Rosa is decidedly better than Boone’s Farm, than Arbor Mist or any of the hundreds of concoctions with lurid colors, additives and cloying sweetness that crowd supermarket and bodega shelves. The story behind Stella Rosa, and all those super extra billboards - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z He threw away his prepared opening statement and ranted and raved for more than 40 minutes, when he wasn't indulging in unctuous whining about the unfairness of it all or cloying sentimentality. Brett Kavanaugh’s grotesque carnival: Will Republicans put this petulant child on the Supreme C... 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z A lot of it I find a bit cloying. A sampling of Valentino Dixon's surreal golf drawings - Golf Digest 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Not long ago, most California white wines weren’t known for their acidity; that’s because most were styled after a rather ponderous iteration of Chardonnay, and were relatively thick and cloying, about as mouthwatering as milk. Wines of the week: Weirdly refreshing white blends you should be drinking now 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z When it’s not, it’s annoying, cloying and LOUD! ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’: Sequel creates a web of clever, colorful, cloying moments 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Its cloying, cakey perfume had reminded her of her mother, she supposed, though she’d taken it out only once or twice to sniff it. “Cecilia Awakened” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Body positivity is a worthwhile and uplifting movement, but sometimes it can come across a little cloying. I watched three days of nudity at the Edinburgh fringe – this is what I learned 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It was criticised as commercial, cloying and exploitative. ABBA’s songs are an escapist treat in melancholy times 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The latest iteration adds watermelon, and it’s reminiscent of candy — sweet and seasonal — but not cloying. Summer cocktails can be boring. Here’s where to find refreshing twists on classic drinks. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s thick and rich, with no cloying sweetness and just as gluttonous as any of its decked-out burgers. Seattle’s top 4 burger spots — ranked by Seattle Times critics 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Some of my Twitter mates drench their disapproval in cloying melodrama. How opponents feed Trump media machine 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z He conveys the smooth and slightly cloying folksiness of someone who has been around a lot of politicians. The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Chris Burns, the president of Old Ox, knows that some customers will be wary of FestivAle because “fruit beers can have a cloying sweetness.” Cherry blossoms are coming, but these 3 cherry blossom beverages are already here 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z In the heat, I found all the sachertortes and strudel cloying. A Modernist Masterpiece? I Had My Doubts 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s visually gorgeous at times but then boring to behold at others, emotionally poignant at times but stunningly cloying at others. Review: Disney’s ‘Wrinkle’ is a cluttered, dizzying jumble 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z To someone not in the right mood, the relentless whimsy of "The Flying Lovers" might seem precious or begin to cloy. Marc Chagall and the poetic flight of fancy that is 'The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk' 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The lyrics sometimes veer into pretentiousness, more so than on the group’s breakthrough 2015 release, “Birds Say,” and some of the melodies are cloying. Review: Darlingside sometimes soars on inconsistent album 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z I couldn’t find anywhere to work that wasn’t within earshot of a string quartet playing cloying arrangements of soft rock. When a First-Timer’s Luxury Cruise Turns Into an SOS 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The filmmakers say they worked to prevent emotional moments from becoming cloying. 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