| A woman of a certain age and of a certain gushiness approached her. |
| However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole. |
| The result is a warm, honest and ambling little story that avoids over-sentimentality and gushiness. |
| 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. |
| His speech contained all the usual platitudes and gushiness about colleagues and staff that come with all such speeches. |
| Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both. |
