Ben Domenech

When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.

American Writer

Lucy Dacus

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

American Musician

Jon Voight

Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

American Actor

Ava DuVernay

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

American Director

Roger Scruton

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

English Philosopher

Greg Gutfeld

When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.

American Author

Porter Robinson

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

Kemp Muhl

We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.

American Singer

Implies a distaste for overdone emotions or actions; often used critically.

Negative Connotation

Common in drama or romance, where sincerity might be exaggerated.

Genre Awareness

Should elicit strong feelings, whether genuine or manufactured.

Emotional Response

Describes a specific quality of sweetness similar to physical sugar taste.

Taste Description

In chemistry, it's neutral, but in taste, it can be too much and undesired.

Not Always Positive

Commonly used by those managing sugar intake, like diabetics.

Dietary Uses

Remember, saccharine is synthetic and not derived from sugar cane or beets.

Not Real Sugar

Perceived as either beneficial for health or controversial for artificiality.

Health Perception

 and propylene glycol and two of those molecules actually have an additional function they are sweet and they're not as sweet as sugar though so most manufacturers add some sort of artificial sweetener on top could be something like saccharine in here or xylitol in here now none of

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 of appreciation of art that were in place for centuries, or millennia, in the 20th century were discarded. The beauty and pleasure in art -- probably a human universal -- were -- began to be considered saccharine,

Saccharine

Negative Connotation

Genre Awareness

Emotional Response

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