Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversweetness
Literary usage of Oversweetness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"But Morley's vigor energizes his lines and prevents his verses—especially those
in the latter volume—from becoming tawdry with oversweetness. ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"But Morley's vigor energizes his lines and prevents his verses—especially those
in the latter volume—from becoming tawdry with oversweetness. ..."
3. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"The painting is of the most featherlike lightness, and only escapes oversweetness
from the sharp carnal flavor of the whole. The criticism of such a picture ..."
4. The American Novel by Carl Van Doren (1921)
"... and oversweetness which characterized the decade from which it sprang as the
decade's finest purely sentimental masterpiece. The most effective of all ..."
5. The Cities of Umbria by Edward Hutton (1905)
"... with something of the sweetness of the nun, the oversweetness of which men
have always been so suspicious; finding therein something not quite sane or ..."
6. The Golden Hynde: And Other Poems by Alfred Noyes (1908)
"Ah, the sudden tempest of passion, mad with pain for its oversweetness. As petal
by petal and pang by pang their love broke out into perfect flower. ..."
7. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"... loaded her with caresses that bewildered and distracted her, that awoke
responses she thought herself incapable of, that sickened her by oversweetness, ..."
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