Search Result for "sweetness and light":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a mild reasonableness;
- Example: "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sweetness and light n 1: a mild reasonableness; "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweetness and light": bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, tearjerker