What's the difference between nostalgic and sappy?

Nostalgic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
  • (2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
  • (3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
  • (4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
  • (5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
  • (6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
  • (7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
  • (8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
  • (9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
  • (10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
  • (11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
  • (12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
  • (13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
  • (14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
  • (15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
  • (16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
  • (17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
  • (18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
  • (19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
  • (20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.

Sappy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
  • (superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
  • (superl.) Weak in intellect.
  • (superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
  • (a.) Musty; tainted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The genius of The Muppet Show was that it was ironic without being cynical, sharp without being cruel, sweet without being sappy , anarchic without being too chaotic, timely without being dated.
  • (2) The smell should have been sappy and muddy and of the sea.
  • (3) In any case they hit dangerously sappy scenes like this one out of the park: LG: Will you kiss me?
  • (4) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
  • (5) Kobe Bryant’s last hurrah as a professional basketball player featured everything that was glorious (and maddening) about No24, plus countless sappy tribute videos.
  • (6) He created the sappy but much-loved Felicity in 1998.