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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Example Sentences

"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

He sang love stuff, and sob stuff, and a lot of opera stuff that sounded like gargling.

From The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by Blaine, Captain John

"And you can't get me with the sob stuff, either," Nucky shrugged his shoulders.

From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré

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 Dobie, Charles Caldwell