The light was too red and too syrupy for my eyes.

Well you wouldn't expect anything too syrupy from the author of The Butcher Boy, would you?

The imprimatur of a careful and calculated company like Coca-Cola is sweet, but investors also shouldn't get too syrupy about it.

In Flight is a guitar-charged paean to the pleasures of fleeing, while Sugar Free is a glissando-laced love song which avoids getting too syrupy.