Nov 25th, 2010, 04:26 am
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 | A Lifesaver for Cold Days | | Join Date: Nov 16th, 2010 Location: Japan
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 cloying summer
Hi Sue, Sapporo's warm welcome | The Japan Times Online Quote: |
With just enough time left for a quick souvenir dash, I loaded up on fresh Hokkaido cheese at the Hug market store ([011] 242-8989; *幌狸小路の飲食店・北海道産食材 ら道産食彩HUG) at Tanuki Koji, boxes of Shiroi Koibito chocolate biscuits and packs of Sumire ramen before returning to New Chitose Airport for the 100-minute flight back to Haneda and Tokyo's cloying summer. I slept from takeoff to touchdown, and dreamed of Hokkaido's wide-open sky.
| Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary Quote:
cloying
too sweet, pleasant, or emotional
- a cloying romantic comedy
- After a while, the softness of his voice becomes cloying.
| With the word "cloying," is the writer just avoiding stating directly that Tokyo's summer is terrible? |