| At times, the tenor of the discussions became cloyingly self-congratulatory. |
| The public perception of these wines as a whole is that they are cloyingly sweet, a perception has that damaged the grape's image no matter where it is produced. |
| American officials seemed cloyingly cocksure as they lectured the Japanese on their domestic economy. |
| Many have seen the work as escapist or cloyingly sentimental. |
| Far from cloyingly sentimental, Sylvian's songs reflect a deep and abiding sense of the sacred eternally renewed in the common. |
| There is too much mugging, too many knowing nods and winks to the audience, something which starts to feel more cloyingly tragic than farcically comic. |
