cutesiness

As far as "cutesiness" goes, it makes several subtle points and also doesn't pull its punches: there's real death in it, of characters we care about.

TRAILER: The Secret Of Kells 2010

Re that first cake: Perhaps all the powers of the Dark Side are required to contain the nauseating cutesiness which is "Precious Moments"...

May The Fourth Be With You 2010

And, while purists balk at the "cutesiness" of the Ewok race in 1983's Return Of The Jedi, the film brought a visually stunning, character-based conclusion to the saga, with Lucas's story again taking assistance from more capable hands when it came to writing and direction.

munkey's-eye view ~ STAR WARS EPISODE III 2005

And, while purists balk at the "cutesiness" of the Ewok race in 1983's Return Of The Jedi, the film brought a visually stunning, character-based conclusion to the saga, with Lucas's story again taking assistance from more capable hands when it came to writing and direction.

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

Ocean’s Twelve: Loved the first one (rare remake far superior to the original), thought this sequel was a waste of time and way too wrapped up in cutesiness.

Knightriders 2005

Putting Carey Mulligan and Norah Jones on their new disc may have been pushing the cutesiness factor a little -- were no singing puppies available?

Taking sides: Belle & Sebastian -- Indie-pop legends or comfort-rock enablers? Click Track 2010

It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness 2012

Which is exactly how I would have put it, happy as I was to discover these books, too, after so many years of unrelenting cheeriness and pointless plot-iness and overweening cutesiness and, as Phoebe suggests, way too much sugar.

Jenny Rosenstrach: Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List Jenny Rosenstrach 2011

Question: I won't argue the cutesiness of Hart of Dixie, but it's not phony: It's just set in another universe.

Ask Matt: Globes Weirdness, Dexter, Person of Interest, Charlie Sheen, and More! 2011

Now stop dodging the question: why the cutesiness?

Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure 2010