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It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.
The real limitations are those of the writer, whose hallmarks are weak sophomoric humor and a cloying sentimentality.
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.
3) The role mottle: Christopher Hitchens has complained about the annoying, cloying quality of the modern babble about "role models."
A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.