sob stuff

British  

noun

1. material such as films, stories, etc, that play upon the emotions by the overuse of pathos and sentiment

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sob stuff

"There'd be no time to do anything here if you wasted time in sob stuff."

From Time Magazine Archive

The following, taken from The New York Times, is what hard-boiled newspaper men have in mind when they speak of "sob stuff": Engaged.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was some good sob stuff in it about Miss Claybourne nursing you back from the Valley of the Shadow.

From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford

"I am some weary of that sob stuff from 'Orphan Annie,'" I heard her say to one of the Hill-Top boys.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

The whole article, even down to this obvious dash of "sob stuff," was at once Hilmer's challenge to the strikers and his appeal to the gallery.

From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie

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