How To Use Saccharine In A Sentence

  • The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
  • Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation.
  • Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around. A review for INK
  • Everything he likes or wants, from saccharine to cigarettes, is doomfully reported as causing cancer or cholesterol. The Business of Playing Hockey
  • The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying.
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  • And since she answered my silly questions with patience and saccharine sweetness, she is in my good books.
  • And let's not forget the sappy sequences of false sentiments and saccharine solace.
  • There are also a series of intensely sweet, almost saccharine desserts, like peanut ice parfait (spiked with cane liquor) and an extra-creamy flan made from vanilla beans.
  • The researchers discovered that rats fed on yoghurt sweetened with saccharine ate more calories, gained more weight and put on more body fat than rats that were given yoghurt sweetened with glucose.
  • Simultaneously rough and lyrical, her paintings are jagged emotional landscapes in colors that range from earthy to bilious, saturated to saccharine.
  • Patrick had finally snapped out of his saccharine fugue and tried to interject, but Bethlynn ignored him. SACRAMENT
  • Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid?
  • In Japan, Korea, and China, it is used extensively in lieu of saccharine and aspartame.
  • 'cornball'-'There's another one of Disney's saccharine things.' MousePlanet
  • The derivatives used to prepare saccharine and aspartame, substitutes for sugar, have inorganic chemicals that make us vulnerable to diseases by bringing down the immunity of the body.
  • With its orchestral arrangements, dragging tempos and saccharine delivery, it seems less like pop music than easy listening.
  • I thought this would be saccharine, but the sweetness dries down into a smooth base of cedar and tonka bean. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • But very often the sentiments expressed are saccharine.
  • The root contains much saccharine and amylaceous matter. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • That thread is dropped, though, in favor of a number of weepy aspects that drive the ending to saccharine heights.
  • It is very nice that they love each other and all, but their banter did get a bit saccharine at times.
  • Somewhere in Time is so sweet that it becomes saccharine, so serious that it becomes self-parody, so earnest that it becomes artificial.
  • Two catwalk trends - ladylike and pastel - collide to provide the saccharine effect you see here. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even during his well-documented years of excess, the saccharine sweetness of James Taylor's voice served him well.
  • Fans of Johar, however, need not fear, as the director still inserts his characteristic film tropes: the park bench, the sweeping skyline and a saccharine let's-fall-in-love song picturisation. The Asian News - RSS Feed
  • By the slow mode of conducting vegetation here recommended, an actual and minute separation of the parts takes place; the germination of the radicles and acrospire carries off the cohesive properties of the barley, thereby contributing to the preparation of the saccharine matter, which it has no tendency to extract, or otherwise injure, but to increase and meliorate, so long as the acrospire is confined within the husk; and by as much as it is wanting of the end of the grain, by so much does the malt fall short of perfection; and in proportion as it is advanced beyond, is that purpose defeated. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
  • But Manhattan is not a friendly place and she soon discovers that her cloying, saccharine compositions are about as welcome as toothache.
  • But what saves it from saccharine sentimentality is that Meany is used as a means of exposing not just the hypocrisies of small town life but the larger follies of post-war America.
  • This interstition between the bane of guilty saccharine pleasure and the respites of emulation from acceptable holding points (Japan, My Bloody Valentine) is Guitar's preferred habitat, and it's a nice place to visit (some rooms being quite more comfortable than others). PopMatters
  • At first darkly comic, the show gradually waned and became more saccharine and fluffy. Times, Sunday Times
  • At this period it is colorless, and clear as water; its taste is slightly saccharine; its odor resembles that of whey; it reddens turnsole paper. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
  • The formation of that kind of liquor is founded upon a faculty peculiar to grains, which the learned chymist, Fourcroy, has called _saccharine fermentation_. The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
  • Until recently we resorted to artificial sweeteners such as saccharine or aspartame, but never felt good about it.
  • Until recently we resorted to artificial sweeteners such as saccharine or aspartame, but never felt good about it.
  • In 1926 the artificial sweetener saccharine was popularized.
  • Speaking personally, I find Christmas specials in general too sweet and saccharine for my taste, and there is plenty of that gooey sentimentality.
  • Only occasionally did Tudor's illustrations stray toward the saccharine, most obviously when she depicted innocent, round-cheeked youngsters at prayer. She Lived in and Painted the Past
  • ‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile.
  • Actually there is a faint trace of saccharine here.
  • The derivatives used to prepare saccharine and aspartame, substitutes for sugar, have inorganic chemicals that make us vulnerable to diseases by bringing down the immunity of the body.
  • I was going to say they overdid the saccharine, but hey, I suspect it was aspartame.
  • On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet. Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer. . . ?
  • These are quirky books, written by a quirky writer for quirky readers; they offer an astringent tonic in a time when narration, across genres and media, falls as often as not into saccharine complacency.
  • Mrs. Benson held the storm door firmly shut and smiled saccharinely at the girls while making shooing motions with her free hand.
  • However, in the absence of such an improvement, much may be done by care and attention at the mill; the green bands and trash which usually accompany the canes from the field, should, therefore, be carefully removed before they are passed through, as they contain no saccharine matter, abound in the deleterious substances already mentioned, and communicate a bad color to the juice; therefore, _the ripe cane only should pass through the mill_. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • This movie could so easily have descended into schmaltz and saccharine yet instead it is by turns dark, comedic, violent, enlightening, frighteningly real and ceaselessly inspiring and surprising.
  • Don't sugar-coat: they may have declared Nutra-sweet non-carcinogenic, but it still has that saccharine aftertaste.
  • There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied.
  • One of many saccharine Army songs, this one is a letter home from a kid in boot camp.
  • Crunchy, rattling beats are generic and hollow, the plaintive horns a trifle saccharine, and the piano motifs, dreamy and slender, have something distinctly Walt Disney about them.
  • She has a saccharine smile on her face and her voice is sickly sweet.
  • Just as remarkable is the gingery, tart-sweet plum sauce (usually a saccharine affair) served with Republic Square's miniature fried egg rolls.
  • She smiled a sticky, icky, saccharine smile at us and pulled out the pencil from her ear.
  • He kept glancing over at me and then smiling, his expression saccharine.
  • Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around. A review for INK
  • At first darkly comic, the show gradually waned and became more saccharine and fluffy. Times, Sunday Times
  • And for those of us with long memories of mincing, saccharine productions, this revival is an eye opener.
  • More likely it was a case of misplaced scorn for the saccharine melodies that overwhelmed the odes to left-coast burgs Santa Cruz, Big Sur and Hollywood.
  • Give us fruit, cheese, or just tell us dessert is off, but spare us monstrosities like ‘tartufo’, a ball of synthetic vanilla ice cream in a saccharine-sweet meringue jacket.
  • It was probably an effect of the season, for Knight states that he never could discover the least trace of saccharine matter during winter in the alburnum either of the stem or of the roots of the sycamore. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Things that Ramis thinks are funny - such as sweat pouring in rivulets off a basketball player's face - don't work, and the saccharine sweet ending strikes the wrong note.
  • Working every angle in a role that could easily have veered into saccharine excess, Portman is indomitable.
  • He remembered that she had frequently been in receipt of printed elegaic couplets known as "mottoes," containing enclosures equally saccharine. Tales of the Argonauts
  • If I was you, I'd be more upset about the fact that my name is almost - but not quite - the same as that of the lead singer of the thankfully-now-defunct saccharine-sweet sugar-coated Lightning Seeds.
  • What could have been a saccharine outing is hugely enjoyable. Times, Sunday Times
  • On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet. Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer. . . ?
  • As Haden rages against the machine, I see how the boleros of Nocturne are an answer to the saccharine junk we are sold everyday.
  • The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule.
  • The homemade desserts are far less saccharine than a lot of Indian sweets.
  • The water thus employed would serve for many successive portions of megass, until at length it became so richly loaded with saccharine matter as to be worth attention in the boiling-house; or, at all events, it would be serviceable for the cattle, who would fatten rapidly upon it. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • It certainly doesn't need the distraction of echoing backing vocals and the saccharine strings that it has to fight against throughout.
  • The day when Paralympians are protected from personal invective is the day we have gone back to the saccharine dangers of the past. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome. The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
  • They used calcium cyclamate as a sweetener, but due to a subsequent discovery, the sweetener was changed to saccharine, with the option of buying packets with no sweetener. Funny Face Drink Mix Commercial - The Retroist
  • At that he stepped out to his haversack, and on his return he poured out some seven thimblesful of saccharine into a hand quite cheerfully extended. My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,
  • The film is filled with humorous dialogue that is often sweet without being saccharine.
  • Many people thought that the overly saccharine speech that Teri gave last episode was a stone-cold presage to her death.
  • If I was you, I'd be more upset about the fact that my name is almost - but not quite - the same as that of the lead singer of the thankfully-now-defunct saccharine-sweet sugar-coated Lightning Seeds.
  • Neither writer resorts to saccharine: both reflect accurately and sympathetically the dilemmas and delusions of adolescence.
  • The images were an equal spilt between hard-core porn, close-ups of her scar, lips, and cleavage, and saccharine photos of the pair of them together.
  • Thus the same saccharine solution may be made to undergo either the vinous or the butyric fermentation, according as the yeast plant or another organism, described by Pasteur, is introduced into it.
  • Sweet without being saccharine. Times, Sunday Times
  • I always find songs written about that quite saccharine and a little bit obvious.
  • The lyrical viewpoint of the song is bracing rather than saccharine or whiny.
  • I sympathise if the fluttering pastel flowers and general saccharine nature of this outfit set your teeth on edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the tunes are by the trio's leader, and are characterised by a spare elegance and melodic accessibility which never tips over into the merely saccharine.
  • Rosanna had always smelled of roses and saccharine peppermint.
  • Their saccharine lyrics are no match for the sassier dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • She did not seem to mind the cloying saccharine smell as she briskly walked past rows of incapacitated men, they heads so filled with the narcotic fumes that it was a miracle that they were still alive.
  • The melody is tender but not unduly saccharine and is played here with more concern for easeful relaxation than poignancy.
  • In the center of this unweeded and naturally manicured garden, he stood, wearing that nauseatingly saccharine with arrogance grin.
  • As the other girls line up one by one to blubber heartfelt tributes to their departing colleagues, a saccharine melody is piped in over the PA.
  • The huge bitterness and cynicism within the character of the Princess balances the almost saccharine nature of much of the score. Times, Sunday Times
  • What could have been a saccharine outing is hugely enjoyable. Times, Sunday Times
  • As saccharine as flat cola, it had an added taste of musky, dusky fruit and a hint of molasses.
  • Diet Coke's path to glory was paved by the long-forgotten Tab, whose bitter, saccharine flavor first hit the market in 1963, and can be considered the gateway drug to diet colas.
  • Slumdog, then , is at best an attempt to cook a saccharine dish in a bitter sauce.
  • It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim.
  • An immense quantity of snow falls, but partly owing to the tremendous winds which drift it into the deep valleys, and partly to the bright warm sun of the winter months, the park is never snowed up, and a number of cattle and horses are wintered out of doors on its sun-cured saccharine grasses, of which the gramma grass is the most valuable. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • There is nothing more comforting that its saccharine, vanillic, milky aroma. Archive 2009-05-01
  • The imaging technique showed that some neurons were activated by the saccharine, or the conditioned stimulus, and others were activated by the lithium chloride or the unconditioned stimulus.
  • The resurgent and excellent Doctor Who series proved beyond doubt that programmes for the whole family are still feasible and can be sure-fire ratings winners without being saccharine coated dross.
  • Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client.
  • In the higher plants, at least, a nucleus occurs embedded in it; a watery liquid holding salts and saccharine substances in solution fills the space called the vacuole, inclosed by the protoplasm. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
  • When the acrospire has shot but half the length of the grain, the lower part only is converted into that mellow saccharine flour we are solicitous of, whilst the other half exhibits no other signs of it than the whole kernel did at its first germination: let it advance to two thirds of the length, and the lower end will not only have increased its saccharine flavour, but will have proportionably extended its bulk, so as to have left one third part unmalted. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
  • Patrick had finally snapped out of his saccharine fugue and tried to interject, but Bethlynn ignored him. SACRAMENT
  • In 1926 the artificial sweetener saccharine was popularized.
  • In the midst of an ongoing worldwide trek, Kapranos spoke to the Mirror about music festivals, Christmas lights and the saccharine splendour of arena singalongs.
  • And every time he kisses you it leaves behind the bitter taste of saccharine.
  • Janice Beard is a sweet film that manages to avoid being too saccharine.
  • The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
  • Granted, they don't exhibit white-hot chemistry, but it's suitably sweet without being too saccharine.
  • The most feminine of summer's catwalk trends, ladylike pastels are girly without being saccharine. Times, Sunday Times
  • The artificial sweeteners saccharine, aspartame and cyclamate were each invented unintentionally as scientists were working in other areas, from anti-ulcer drugs to coal-tar derivatives. The Search for Serendipity
  • Ford relates the sentiment, humour and more grandiose moral of the story very effectively, but manages always to keep things sweet and never saccharine.
  • Saccharine, screen-printed roses on extravagantly billowing skirts left you wondering who might actually get away with them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Never do you get the sense that the Angeles is trying to impress you with virtuosic plunges or move you to tears with saccharine cantabiles, although both happened to me in their rendition of the Sturm und Drang Opus 20 quartets.

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