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The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."
Those inhabiting English's linguistic core may find the phrase cloying, but its popularity in finance and sport, and in the English spoken by non-native speakers, suggests that its colonizing power remains robust.
3) The role mottle: Christopher Hitchens has complained about the annoying, cloying quality of the modern babble about "role models."
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.
[I]t may be the very irrelevance of royalty which has helped protect us from excesses of patriotic fervor," he wrote--comparing Australians favorably with Americans, who "have a cloying sentimentality about their history, their flag, their president and their system."