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Old Nov 25th, 2010, 04:26 am
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Hi Sue,

Sapporo's warm welcome | The Japan Times Online
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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.
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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?
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No - here I think you'll find it means "hot and humid".
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Old Nov 25th, 2010, 05:14 am
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Thank you, Sue.

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