Rude language can spice up a conversation; but on the page it rapidly cloys. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bravo, which used to toy with cultural irony regarding materialism now cloys us with "real" Lindsey Lohans (sans the talent) and slightly better-educated Snookies as a way to boost the ratings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And root from out the soul the deadly weed which cloys? ❋ Unknown (2007)
What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Possession, which cloys Man, only increases the affection of ❋ Unknown (2004)
Conducting health education sessions also gives participants a sense of accomplishment and a moons to assess what they have learned about health education in the post few cloys. ❋ Unknown (1985)
To be sure, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion, -- the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys. ❋ Various (N/A)
Where money is the object, let a man speculate or become a miser -- a very enviable condition to him who has the saving grace to achieve it, if we hold with Byron that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone ❋ Various (N/A)
Little De Roye, who was a very, pretty German lass at her house, informed me of it, and made me amends for the infidelity of the mistress, whose choice, to tell you the truth, did not mortify me much, because she had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was an exquisite vigor of sweetness, not in the least the kind that cloys. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
We cannot say now, for it cloys a little with sweets for us at this time, though it was then the time of honey and jasmine, and the scent of far away flowers. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)
Of thy combing hand, the while it travelling cloys ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)
And Brian had found in Joan's face the vigor of sweetness, not the kind that cloys. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
If it cloys, we calmly leave it, with perhaps a careless frown, ❋ Henry Abbey (N/A)
But all pleasure cloys or ceases; if the cup is stricken down, ❋ Henry Abbey (N/A)
Laid at our feet, we tasted, as courtesy demanded, a coos-coosoo made of grated almonds, powdered sugar, and cream -- a sweet which cloys at an early hour in the day, though to Moorish servants, at any and every moment of their lives, it is as caviare to the few. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
The riot of images, the violent volubility of language, all that cloys and satiates in the Elizabethans yet appears to be drawn up with a roar as a feeble fire is sucked up by a newspaper. ❋ Unknown (1925)
Britain, strip them of their error, strip them of that admixture of error which cloys and clogs all human action, divest them of the trappings of combat in which they are apparelled, let them be nakedly and faithfully revealed. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)
