Sentences with phrase «with sappy»

Eclectic characters and situations are mixed with sappy, saccharine sentimentality.

The problem with Harry Potter 4 is that it's free of subtext for the most part, content to worry itself with sappy love plots punctuated now and then by special effects set - pieces that revert to the first film's tendency to stop the action to allow the cast and the audience to gape, slack - jawed, at the spectacle.

She's also a punk - rock fan with a Sid Vicious fascination (her happiest moment is an onstage appearance with real - life band the Pointed Sticks), yet she plasters her walls with sappy Elvis pin - ups and can't get enough of «Teddy Bear» (possibly his wimpiest hit).

With its sappy musical vignettes and encounter - session dialogue, the movie consistently overplays its insights, though all three leads contribute thoughtful and genuine performances.

i am reading a mystery book right now — i'd had enough with sappy books you look gorg as usual in the pics!

Nothing wrong with a sappy movie and some takeout!

Not exact matches

Not sappy and at times completely relatable — I recommend it to young adults who are in that stage of life themselves or adults who look back to those times with nostalgia.

And that's how Coca - Cola gets away with telling sappy tales about young love.

It is fronted by a convenience store and you have to walk through the Snapple machine in the back so he said he needed deodorant to get me to go over there (not sure why he picked something so unromantic and didn't go with shampoo or something but sappy and goofy sums us up pretty well).

Time to express your sappy love feels this Valentine's Day with these Chocolate - Dipped Browned Butter Rice Krispie Treats!

And despite being vegan and made with spelt flour, the banana bread isn't sappy at all; just the perfect combination of cakey and -LSB-...]

This wine highlights the teroldego grape's inherent spicy, edgy characters to good effect: fermentation included 20 per cent whole bunches, and this has given it a lovely fine, sappy character in the mouth, along with lots of juicy red berries.

Make these for the one who likes a good sweet with out the sappy love stuff.

Also that year he met LaTorsha, winning her heart with the mushy cards he left in her dorm room and, when she'd answer his calls, the sappy songs he played into the phone's mouthpiece.

Then on Sunday, Howard had said the return would be emotional, prompting Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant to tell the media he'd have to talk with Howard about holding the sappy stuff for later.

Not sappy and not rote, but gentle and kind and with a message that the world can be a good and peaceful place.

Go back to glory days of the Bears in Wrigley Field and never, ever, ever, ever, ever repeat a bush league stunt with such a lousy field configuration, sappy promotion ideas and brainless TV color commentary.

, Its true not many Americans can work overseas jobs, Who cares profits are up and the owners are happy, Its easy, I just hide my glee and act sappy, Let me just be straight with you, Don't act up there's nothing you can do, Matt Doheny and «Wall Street» own you, Middle Class people when it comes to the things I worship, You sad little victims haven't a clue, «Cut the Bush Tax Cuts», How rude of you, I'm running for Congress to keep things the same, You can't find a job, Your just so lame

So my hope with this series, not to sound too sappy or anything, is to provide a space where I can share about what's going on in my life in hopes to give you a place where you feel comfortable to share as well.

Before this post gets all sappy, so let's dive into the fact that we can relish every last moment of this spectacular time of year with ALLLL the summer food.

And thus, Galentines day and every other iteration of non-romantic, platonic celebrations (usually with copious amounts of chocolate and sappy movies) comes to the rescue.

Everybody is looking for the right one that has the most compatible features, so before you start writing that knockout personal profile, and you're serious about finding someone for a long - term romance or possible marriage, remember it's not always about looks, money, or how intelligent you are, it may be as simple as telling someone that you really enjoy spending quality time with your partner on the comfy couch, with a bowl of popcorn watching a marathon of sappy movies together.

Nothing wrong with caring just not sappy about it.

It's graced with a sense of humility and reverence, but devoid of any sloppy, sappy hero worship.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

It's clearly just the beginning to a larger story, but «Catching Fire» steadily builds excitement with the harrowing plights of its heroes and introduces several new characters that admirably fill out the cast to complement the leads, and also distract from the sappier moments.

When someone tells the hugely, uncomfortably pregnant Marlo (Charlize Theron: Gringo, The Fate of the Furious) that she's glowing, it lands with all the sincerity of a sappy greeting card.

Just when you think it's going to be a sappy chick flick, The Sweetest Thing surprises with a lewd joke or half - naked girl.

By the way, if you like Kathy Bates movies, you'll probably be frustrated with this one, since as Tripp's mother, the invaluable character actress is made to whipsaw between playing sappy domestic slave to her son's laundry and salty, overly sexual wife.

Not only did it get the sappy «Hollywood spin» but it dragged on and on and I was surprised I was so bored with it half way through.

It has a predictable storyline with many sappy and generic moments.

On that level, I'd rather stick with a just as manipulative and sappy but more entertaining film in «We Bought a Zoo» (my more enthusiastic Early Review can be found here), but that's just me.

But the sappy ending doesn't fit with what we've witnessed for most of the previous hour and 45 minutes, and shatters any lasting impact this story may have provided.

Things get sappy and oversimplified when Sutter, at the fatherless Aimee's urging, seeks out his errant dad, with predictable repercussions.

Perhaps predictable, sentimental and sappy, but who cares, when it also oh so effectively delivers the salient message that much is expected of those fortunate enough to have been born blessed with so much.

Everyone will have a good time with this film, tough guys or sappy saps.

In all of these you can feel McCarthy doing the heavy lifting, with a lame script that gets sappy about the heroine's second chances.

Koro makes repeated reference to the heir that will bring his people «out of the darkness,» but Caro seems less concerned with evoking the economic or socio - political baggage bringing the film's characters down than she is with telling the same sappy tale of patriarchal perseverance we've seen so many times before.

But the score, much like the film, has this kind of old Hollywood movie making feel to it, and though it gets a bit sappy near the end, it's still filled with a lot of tension.

The film gets a little too sappy near the end with Bruce trying to win back Grace and coming to have a grand revelation.

Sure, it was filled with plot holes and sappy nonsense, but come on!

Consider a lamentable subplot involving a Billy Budd missionary (Sam Clafin) who falls in love with a captive mermaid (Astrid Berges - Frisbey, who could use a sandwich) he dubs, for some unknown if undoubtedly sappy reason, «Syrena.»

Yet another ensemble comedy / drama from director Garry Marshall that is based around a holiday, Mother's Day alternates between broadly obvious farce and overly sappy melodrama with lumbering sloppiness.

But after 90 minutes of cursing and predictable scenarios that try so hard to be outrageous, we end up with precisely the sappy ending we expect.

Similarly, in Wild, Jean - Marc Vallée turns what could've easily been a sappy life - lesson into a film where the natural world comes across as a vast force, with Reese Witherspoon only a small figure travelling through it.

Entertaining, and never very daring, Melfi saves the sappiest moment for last with Oliver's little ode to Vincent in his school project, which contends that the man as has all the necessary saintly qualities.

Never sappy, it confronts fear with tongue - in - cheek resilience, right up until its quietly satisfying conclusion... almost certain to be a tearjerker for anyone who invests in this drama.

So it's hard in good conscience to recommend a sappy flick with a heroine this shallow, her admirable spunkiness in the face of a dire prognosis notwithstanding.

Many romantic comedy films can be fairly sappy with the main crisis being some variant of «will they or won't they.»

Britt Robertson is also good as the girl from a different world, and the couple do generate a limited amount of chemistry despite the sappy material they have to work with.