2001, Peter Rainer, "Rough Cut", New York, 29 January 2001:
Director Sam Raimi, coming off the baseball sapfestFor Love of the Game, has ditched most of his sensitive-man duds, and parts of The Gift hark back to his own gifts for gothic gnarliness: There's an impressive amount of thunder and lightning and twisted oaks and decayed corpses.
2003, David Handler, The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery, St. Martin's Paperbacks (2004), →ISBN, page 100:
It sounded like a feel-good sapfest, the kind where exhibitors ought to post a sign at the box office reading Diabetics Enter at Own Risk.
2008, Bryce A. Miles, Blue Falcon, Bangkok Book House (2008), →ISBN, page 56:
It was a mistake to relent and see a romantic movie earlier, a by-the-numbers Hollywood sapfest with Thai subtitles that will make what I must do now all the more difficult.
2008, Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2008), →ISBN, page 70:
Best Picture absolutely should have been Born on the Fourth of July, not that sapfestDriving Miss Daisy.
2011, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, Crown Publishers (2011), →ISBN, page 40:
“How many times have you seen that sapfest? I know you've made me sit through it at least twice."
