For all his idealism witness his deeply felt socialist and Christian principles Mr Delors is no soppy romantic.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

There is a great sense of patriotism and it makes people get soppy and sentimental.

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Very likely this was Mr. Warchus's doing, since "Matilda" goes to much trouble never to get soppy.

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The soppy romantic subplot and overly neat resolution suggest some concessions have been made to augment the film's marketability.

BBC: Loach's Bread winner

Twenty years ago this summer Britain was going crazy over a Grease - a musical, based on a soppy love story set in 1950s America.

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With their soppy consciousness-raising therapy-speak, they are easy targets for St.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

It's not soppy and moany at all, it's energetic and insightful.

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He believes Hart was sloppy, Hammerstein soppy (too many easy metaphors like birds, dreams, flying), Coward condescending, Gershwin too striving and Lerner too limited in his palette.

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From the moment the animals arrive majestically onstage, called from the wings and down the aisles to Pride Rock for the birth of Simba by a mesmerizing Zulu chant and response led by Rafiki, the baboon-shaman, the story is liberated from its soppy, hidebound cartoon naturalism.

NEWYORKER: The Lion King