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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
Most people add a pineapple base and four pumps of pure cane sugar syrup; some add four pumps of raspberry syrup instead.
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Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
Also, don't miss the Elderflower Serenade ($12), a bright, botanical blend of bourbon, sherry and pomegranate syrup, topped with delicate elderflower foam.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 13 Dec. 2024
Rather than remove the maple syrup barrels from the site, Ruth comes up with a plan: Steal a tanker truck, pipe the syrup into the truck and leave the barrels behind filled with water and chains to make up for the weight.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Dec. 2024
Ingredients: 2 oz Four Roses Small Batch ½ oz caramel syrup
½ oz vanilla syrup
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
Marshmallow garnish
Directions: Stir all the ingredients with ice and strain into a rocks glass.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
Also, don't miss the Elderflower Serenade ($12), a bright, botanical blend of bourbon, sherry and pomegranate syrup, topped with delicate elderflower foam.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 13 Dec. 2024
Rather than remove the maple syrup barrels from the site, Ruth comes up with a plan: Steal a tanker truck, pipe the syrup into the truck and leave the barrels behind filled with water and chains to make up for the weight.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Dec. 2024
Ingredients: 2 oz Four Roses Small Batch ½ oz caramel syrup
½ oz vanilla syrup
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
Marshmallow garnish
Directions: Stir all the ingredients with ice and strain into a rocks glass.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Short-term commitments superseded sentimentality, turning two homegrown cornerstones into opponents while thrusting a team into overhaul.Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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Or maybe this is the time for a little bit of that American sentimentality.Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.Katie Rife, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 July 2024
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There are also gender-role stereotypes that impact people's understanding of how they are 'allowed' or expected to grieve and show emotion, based on what has been deemed 'acceptable' in society.David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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In society, emotional labor has a market value, requiring individuals to regulate their emotions to meet expectations in exchange for a wage.Elpida Kokkota, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.David Benedict, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.A.A. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.Brian Lowry, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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