Your tendency to vanilla-flavored adjectives and patchouli-scented participles stifles your strength in cloying euphemisms.
She, like so many others of her generation, had fallen under the spell of the young Tennyson, and her world is a world of cloying sweetness, of oriental sensuousness, of merely physical beauty.
Moreover, these same flesh-eatings not only are preternatural to men's bodies, but also by clogging and cloying them, they render their very minds and intellects gross.
She struggled to escape, but the drugged cloth came again, its pungent, cloying sweetness sending her thoughts drifting back toward the void of the dream.
During the night its tiny red blossoms would flood their room with a sweet, almost cloying fragrance, so they woke every morning to a day bathed in perfume.
There was a coaxing, cloying note in her voice when she spoke directly, that in some way coincided with the breath of the night and the feel of that velvet sky.
He was conscious of a heavy scent of flowers banked about the close, dark room, a scent in which the cloying sweetness of jasmine prevailed.
There was the thin girl in the chair, then two boys who were entirely nondescript, with noisy throats cut out of the same copper plate, a soft billowy shadow of a woman under a floppy hat and exuding a ghastly sweet, cloying perfume.
And the smell--the cloying smell that goes with camel caravans, it was pungent!
A habit of cloying over-luxuriance in description, the giving way to a sort of swooning abandonment of the senses in contact with the 'deliciousness' of things, is the most besetting of such faults.
Hence, as this profound and passionate young genius grew, he could not but be aware of what was shallow in the talent of his senior and cloying and distasteful in his ever-voluble geniality.
He sleeps on a mossy bed; she comes to him; and their endearments are related, unluckily in a very cloying and distasteful manner of amatory ejaculation.
To draw an analogy from another sense, we might rejoin that the best champagne is "sec," all the superfluous, cloying sugar being removed.
From his threshold, watching him with a slight contraction of the eyes, Brentwick hailed him in tones of cloying courtesy.
There are makers of beer who substitute for the clean bitter of the hops some deleterious drug, and then seek to hide the fraud by some cloying sweet.
It has a cloying sound as it is written, but the handmaiden recommended it with enthusiasm, and we evidently fell in her esteem, as persons from an uncultivated society, when we declared our inexperience of "honey on pie.
O honey of Hymettus Hill, Gold-brown, and cloying sweet to taste, Wert here for the soft amorous bill Of Aphrodite's courser placed?
Thy musky scent what virginal chaste Blossom was ravished to distil, O honey of Hymettus Hill, Gold-brown, and cloying sweet to taste?
He bent forward with a match for her, and the perfume from her hair, her skin, her dress met him in a cloying wave.
A soft, cloying wave of perfume greeted them as they entered.
A blowsy maid strained herself immediately across the strewn table and cloying lamb platter, and turned off two of the three gas jets.
Then she took up the plate of cloying fritters and tiptoed out, opening softly the door to a slit of a room across the hall.
Often in his cloying misery he tried to make out who this other lover would be; but no one, not even Eustace Singleton, seemed to fill the place.
Worn out by the long marches and the cloying sand through which they had toiled, the army soon slept profoundly.
She was as beautiful as a garden rose is, needing no defense, no ramparts of cloying phrases.
The night was full of moonshine; it danced upon the water; it fired the filigree tops of the solemn cypress; it laced the lawn with quivering shadows; and heavy hung the cloying perfume of the box-wood hedges.
Pap prepared in this way is far more friendly to nature than in the common way of boiling, and may be constantly eaten with much better effect, and without ever tiring orcloying the stomach.
The thought flashed into his consciousness that here with this embodiment of intellectual purity he could master the cloying vices of his life.
The "luscious smell" exactly describes the rich, rather cloying scent of the hyacinth.
As cultivated in Italy and France the mass afterward degenerated into rivalry on equal terms with the shallow, captivating, cloying melody of the later Neapolitans and their successors, Rossini and Bellini.
They are both a cloying treacle to the wings of Independence.
