Citations:sapfest

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English citations of sapfest

Noun: "(informal, pejorative) something sentimental or sappy, especially a movie"

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  • 2001, Peter Rainer, "Rough Cut", New York, 29 January 2001:
    Director Sam Raimi, coming off the baseball sapfest For Love of the Game, has ditched most of his sensitive-man duds, and parts of The Gift hark back to his own gifts for gothic gnarliness: There's an impressive amount of thunder and lightning and twisted oaks and decayed corpses.
  • 2003, David Handler, The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery, St. Martin's Paperbacks (2004), →ISBN, page 100:
    It sounded like a feel-good sapfest, the kind where exhibitors ought to post a sign at the box office reading Diabetics Enter at Own Risk.
  • 2008, Bryce A. Miles, Blue Falcon, Bangkok Book House (2008), →ISBN, page 56:
    It was a mistake to relent and see a romantic movie earlier, a by-the-numbers Hollywood sapfest with Thai subtitles that will make what I must do now all the more difficult.
  • 2008, Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2008), →ISBN, page 70:
    Best Picture absolutely should have been Born on the Fourth of July, not that sapfest Driving Miss Daisy.
  • 2011, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, Crown Publishers (2011), →ISBN, page 40:
    “How many times have you seen that sapfest? I know you've made me sit through it at least twice."
  • 2011, Nancy Martin, Sticky Fingers, St. Martin's Press (2011), →ISBN, page 109:
    [] Look, can't I say something about Clarice's kids without triggering a sapfest? []