| However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole. |
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| Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both. |
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| The result is a warm, honest and ambling little story that avoids over-sentimentality and gushiness. |
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| Suddenly he is prone to bursts of joy, gestures of physical extravagance, emotional gushiness. |
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| It sounds like a Sally Field acceptance speech, but this sort of gooey gushiness doesn't really suit the down-to-earth Hannigan at all. |
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| It was a statement.' Hari Kunzru, who 'came to the book late and found it almost cringey in its emotional gushiness,' agrees. |
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| His speech contained all the usual platitudes and gushiness about colleagues and staff that come with all such speeches. |
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| We didn't review it when it first came out, and it would be hard for me as a reviewer to say anything about it without slipping into undignified gushiness. |
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| A woman of a certain age and of a certain gushiness approached her. |
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| For all the gushiness Ed Miliband displayed today about the birth of his own child last night, few will forget that he couldn't even be bothered to register himself as the father of his first son. |
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| Gushiness — on the part of authors, bloggers and readers — is not. |
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