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gooeyness

noun

as in sentimentality

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion) prefers the darkness of the original Grimms' fairy tales to the gooeyness of the modern cartoon versions

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Gauff doesn’t have much time for tennis sentimentality these days.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
More surprising perhaps is the tone of the new film, which has more humor and touches of romantic sentimentality, rare, if not completely absent, from Herzog’s large body of work.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

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