Treacly

The speeches were treacly.

A slab of treacly bread is toasted and laid with Ortiz anchovies, the brand name a reassurance.

His treacly brown tea, however, still didn’t look terribly appetising.

Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly.

Opening mood music that sounds disconcertingly like the theme of a treacly TV drama casts doubt at the outset, but Torney and company prove to know their way around the Tenleytown home of the play’s Fischer family.