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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
Transfer the egg white to a mixing glass, then add the tea, ginger syrup, ginger juice, vanilla extract, bitters, and 5–6 cubes of ice.
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Derek Brown, Saveur, 29 Jan. 2025
And there are skewers, as there have to be: One with Wagyu top sirloin marinated in pomegranate-ginger syrup, another with ground lamb and mint and another with springy chunks of king-trumpet mushrooms.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
Bag-in-box syrups shared a cabinet with 10 roach corpses.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
The Dead Rabbit’s Irish Coffee Martini features Bushmills Original, Mr. Black coffee liqueur, Angostura cacao bitters, a touch of demerara-molasses syrup, and espresso made from a custom blend by Irish roaster Calendar Coffee.
—Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
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Derek Brown, Saveur, 29 Jan. 2025
And there are skewers, as there have to be: One with Wagyu top sirloin marinated in pomegranate-ginger syrup, another with ground lamb and mint and another with springy chunks of king-trumpet mushrooms.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
Bag-in-box syrups shared a cabinet with 10 roach corpses.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
The Dead Rabbit’s Irish Coffee Martini features Bushmills Original, Mr. Black coffee liqueur, Angostura cacao bitters, a touch of demerara-molasses syrup, and espresso made from a custom blend by Irish roaster Calendar Coffee.
—Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Nostalgia and the ache of moving on permeate every frame of The Ballad of Wallis Island, lending an air of precious sentimentality that threatens to slide into the saccharine.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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Call it a love letter as well, penned with undying admiration and possibly a soupçon of nostalgia but not an ounce of sentimentality, for a New Yawk that may as well be the Victorian era.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Jan. 2025
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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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To that end, experts say not to ignore, bury, or resist the messy mix of emotions that may arise.—
Christina Pérez,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2025
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Lots of heartbreak, lots of sad emotions just coming up short, but there’s still those exciting feelings inside that there’s more out there.—
Paulina Dedaj,
Fox News,
29 Jan. 2025
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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 8 Feb. 2025.
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