These days, Hollywood-inspired thrillers and action extravaganzas vie for moviegoers' attention alongside the more family-oriented saccharine formulas.
For one thing, it's hard to get airplay where radio stations prefer saccharine pop music.
Thankfully, Intervention seems to have dropped some of the saccharine ballad that used to accompany each episode.
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Chopard bauble earrings and a reversed necklace worn down the back anchored the look from slipping into fairytale saccharine.
The saccharine rhetoric around entrepreneurship today hides an extraordinarily rapid behind-the-scenes actual devaluation of the hustler class in real terms.
The overall character of his score is tuneful but not saccharine, daring enough to feel modern without being dauntingly intense.
Together, Berman and Wang-East sing about both saccharine-sweet topics like young love and some harder hitting topics like death, drugs, and heartache.
He adds nothing bar a teaspoon of saccharine in the sweet barrels.
But is the world really ready for Bollywood's saccharine view of life?
It turns out to be a company town inhabited mainly by elves whose saccharine ways the cynical Fred, laboring alongside them, tries to shake up.
Like previous albums, Romanian Names overflows with wickedly catchy melodies, quirky (but never saccharine or cutesy) arrangements and a compelling mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation.
It looked to Aryeh Zelnik as if the man expected a round of applause, or at least a smile, in exchange for his own saccharine grin.
Following a harrying battle against the beverage industry, fast food giants and New York residents determined to drink themselves into a saccharine oblivion, Mayor Bloomberg, has emerged victorious.
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You can't easily sum up the new sounds from Omaha, but the contagious music that has now permanently etched its way in my brain is upbeat, amusing but not saccharine.
It started when Vandy grads and Georgia debutantes decided they wanted an extra kick in their beloved sweet tea (black tea sweetened with sugar, simple syrup or some other saccharine potion).
His frequent visits to Israel and his saccharine, lip-biting declarations of love for Rabin and Israel were all it took in their view to convince the public to reject the Right.
It does get a little saccharine here and there, and you may suffer from sugar overload, but it's a nice change of pace from the usual bang, bang, shoot'em up summer fare.
One thing leads to another, and without going into terribly great detail, Ralph finds himself in the saccharine Sugar Rush game basically what Candy Land would look like if it was a karting game.
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Sweeping vistas of craggy mountains and dramatic sunsets may seem a little saccharine by today's artistic standards, but at the turn of the century, the images were a revelation and spurred tourism to places like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.
Musical movies on the whole were saccharine in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Fosse's film was a stab of something more realistic all but one song was sung in the confines of the cabaret itself and also more frightening.
The atmospherics surrounding volunteering (the whole First Family was involved, as was Vice-President Biden) can seem saccharine or even self-righteous but make no mistake: the fact that such volunteering is actually as widespread as it is, and not just on an arbitrary Day of Service, does say much about the American system and, indeed, our belief in the limits of government.
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