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It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.
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.
My only complaints with High Fidelity were with a few cloying Growth Moments and the cute epilogue, a party at which Rob plays DJ and every character in the novel appears to issue a happy farewell.