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The real limitations are those of the writer, whose hallmarks are weak sophomoric humor and a cloying sentimentality.
She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."
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It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.
[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."
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