| However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole. |
| It was a statement.' Hari Kunzru, who 'came to the book late and found it almost cringey in its emotional gushiness,' agrees. |
| 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. |
| Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both. |
| Suddenly he is prone to bursts of joy, gestures of physical extravagance, emotional gushiness. |
