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Oden Nov 25th, 2010 04:26 am
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?

susan53 Nov 25th, 2010 04:51 am
Re: cloying summer
 
No - here I think you'll find it means "hot and humid".

Oden Nov 25th, 2010 05:14 am
Re: cloying summer
 
Thank you, Sue.


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