They gave her still more of what she called "the approval and gushiness" that had been lavished on her in the last four months.

Suddenly he is prone to bursts of joy, gestures of physical extravagance, emotional gushiness.

All it would take would be a hint of female gushiness, any kind of sloppy, breathless enthusiasm.

Add gobs of sap, gushiness, and boredom.

There is a quick gushiness about tears on World Abounding, a voluminousness that would drown the world if continued more than a short instant.

All this fake sincerity and gushiness irritated Jake to no end, primarily because the jury listened to it and, more often than not, fell for it.

All this gushiness stands in sharp contrast to the dry-eyed wisdom of the Victorian era, when an obsession with cataloguing and classification gave rise to the first modern museums.

In Ms. Noonan's earlier book, "What I Saw at the Revolution," there was plenty of actual data about the Reagan Administration to make her metaphor-strewn gushiness compelling.

Once Ms. Pedala's gushiness and shrill attack comes up against Mr. New's self-absorption and self-containment, both of which are antithetical to Romeo's impetuosity, it becomes clear that if anything is going to cross this pair, it will be their acting techniques, notthe stars.