Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter provided gushy cover blurbs.
Listen to the extraordinary path they've found between strict early-instrument style (they play modern instruments) and the big, gushy romantic approach you often hear.
Good old Neuros, makers of such products as the 442 PMP and MPEG-4 recorder, are getting all gushy with open source again.
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"With women, everything's so heavy and gushy and serious, " she says.
If Mr Obama resembles anyone in recent British history, it is Tony Blair, another leader from everywhere and nowhere, who synthesised charisma, optimism and gushy rhetoric without causing too much alarm.
Sure, the once-yearly opportunity to poke fun at an ill-judged Oscars dress or a super-gushy acceptance speech (gather, Kate, gather) is a welcome prospect in these dreary days of economic doom and gloom.
True to perception, 13% of these comments were positively gushy about Duke's players, its coach Mike Krzyzewski, its quirky arena (Cameron Indoor Stadium), its rabid fans (the Cameron Crazies) and the SAT scores these fans may have attained.
How often are you then motivated to remember their name long enough to Google said author, read the rest of their stuff, subscribe to their newsletter and send them gushy emails asking if they want to be BFF and go out for froyo with you?
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Now some of these matches get called all-time because they are truly all-time (Federer-Nadal Wimbledon is indisputable I will come to your house and chase you around the front yard with a Wilson T-2000 if you disagree), but we're all probably guilty of occasionally getting gushy.
It's easy to see the appeal of men's basketball the NBA stars are global celebrities, fans care, TV goes gushy-gushy gaga but as an Olympic moment it's not the pinnacle. (For half of the men's basketball games in London, you needed a pail of cold water over the head at halftime.) With the gold for the U.S. almost assured failure is really the only surprise the intrigue becomes about weird secondary issues, like the team-bonding for the U.S. players.
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