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- adj. Having a twee picturesqueness.
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“So exhilarating was Joker's early output, he was able to get away with calling it not dubstep but "purple"; a name with the unintended consequence of making you think either of chocolate-box poetry or brutally potent marijuana.”
“I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.”
The Huffington Post: Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale
“The series deconstructs the very chocolate-box works of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, which are quintessential in their idyllic imagery and comfortably absorbed into a mainstream acceptance of art and history.”
“This is a chocolate-box beautiful, often shimmeringly colourful and always slightly surreal two-and-a - half hours taken from the epic play that tells the story of Yoshitsune, the 12th-century military commander who fell out with his older brother, Yoritomo.”
“Whether you first hear the scream of racing engines as you get off the train from Nice and emerge from the modern station hidden away in the bowels of the earth, or you encounter it while entering the harbour on a boat, with the whole widescreen panorama of a chocolate-box palace and brutalist high-rise apartment blocks laid out in front of you, the effect is infallibly magical.”
The Guardian: Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made
“Grieg's Holberg Suite must hold some sort of record as the classical chocolate-box favourite least often programmed at the Proms – just four hearings in 115 years until this week.”
“Despite its cutesy air of chocolate-box Paris, The Elegance of the Hedgehog is, by the end, quite radical in its stand against French classism and hypocrisy.”
“Naldo now thought, its blankness that made it like some unreal chocolate-box painting.”
“Those who proudly adorn themselves with the Kaffeyeh and proclaim their solidarity with the Palestinians have had to confer upon them a sentimental chocolate-box fiction of wronged and suffering passivity.”
“Fake beams on the ceiling, chocolate-box pictures on the walls.”
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