Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion.
Quotes about cloying (6 Quotes)
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best.
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Xiu Xiu have a taste for discord atonal arrangements filled with foghorns, tape hisses, and violent beats and topped off by Stewarts whispery vocals and the melodrama of his confessional lyrics. The latter have inspired open-mouthed fandom from sensitive scenesters who find solace in his pain, and attacks from critics as being cloying and histrionic. People have thrown lit cigarettes at me and audiences have yelled all kinds of nasty shit, ... Then there are also people who drive 800 miles to come see us play and ask if they can come sit in our van for three days because they dont have a bus ride home.
I want a hero an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien