According to the first-night reviews, the film is too soppily respectful of Diana.

Sometimes you see or hear something that harks back to an earlier time, and you can't help but get all soppily sentimental and nostalgic.

"Man is thus looked at with a gaze that is neither narcissistic nor ideological, neither soppily benevolent nor sadistically cruel."

As we soppily mark "Father's Day" with cards, socks, sentimentality and meals out, we should remember that in almost all cases the absent parent is the father.

The people I'm staring at are strangers but they remind me very much of another couple who, 25 years ago, sat there, fingers intertwined, staring soppily into each others eyes.

Although Frank Rich, in The New York Times, called the play "messy, wildly overlong and sometimes soppily autobiographical," he judged it a promising start.

Will appeal to fans of rock, Americana, country, pop, and pure sentiment-as the not quite soppily soft (and better for it) arrangements of "Rugged Lovers" makes abundantly clear.

No story I've received in the years since has equaled this for insight into a theme that has been much overused and could so easily have been just another cliche: overdone, overused, or just soppily sentimental.

While regular coughing or constant clearing of the throat is likely to get people's backs up, hogging the armrest, taking ages to put luggage in compartments and talking soppily on the phone to a partner are also big no-no's.

At the Goodies office, which is being used for their newspaper "Clarion & Globe", Bill is sighing soppily over the framed photo of a very pretty girl, instead of concentrating on his job as a 'roving reporter'.

I wasn't having much fun: I was often sleep-deprived, and covered with Calpol or dribble, so I'd listen constantly to nostalgia radio stations, seeking out old favourite songs, and singing their lyrics directly, soppily, to my son.

Anna and Bates’s rediscovery of each other felt like a rerun of the last time they looked soppily into each other’s eyes (episode one) and the attempted sousing of the visiting general in oil and ink was borderline pantomime.

He landed wet and soppily against Skipper's rain-wet chest, his tail bobbing frantically against Skipper's containing arm, his body wriggling, his tongue dabbing madly all over Skipper's chin and mouth and cheeks and nose.

He opens, for example, with an attack on James Joyce for having unjustly caricatured "The Lamplighter" by the 19th-century novelist Maria Cummins by narrating the Gerty MacDowell passages of "Ulysses" in a soppily sentimental style.

THIS TIME OF YEAR THE SHOPS ARE flooded with soppily titled Valentine CD compilations, full of drippy ballads by Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Boyzone et al.

Since they were born, she has produced a series of drawings, Reproduction, which nod to nativity sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo but are informed by her own experiences – a friend photographed her as she gave birth – so that mother and child are viscerally connected rather than soppily idealised.

Everything works perfectly, leaving this Anglo soppily open-mouthed at the Italian capacity for combining respect for history and conservation while making sure that only what works well is kept.

It blew over eventually, and as we stood outside talking about how much we'd enjoyed it all, we could see them through the window gazing soppily at each other.