maudlin
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of maudlin
Whenever the script seems ready to surrender to maudlin excess, Gosling and McAdams are there to pull it back.
A Love Letter to ‘The Notebook,’ a Melodrama That Commits to Its SentimentalityTeo Bugbee
June 26, 2014
Also, beyond incompetence, he was meant to be weak, vain and maudlin.
This is a book that cries out like one of his maudlin ditties to be edited.
How can you write about that earlier self without being either patronizing or maudlin?
That kind of maudlin touch is what we expect … and live for.
Historical Examples of maudlin
I thought you scoffed at all baritones, and only delighted in maudlin tenors and anticking sopranos.
The Dominant StrainAnna Chapin Ray
The men of Lewis and Skye tackled the liquid bounty with great glee, and soon were in a state of maudlin intoxication.
Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of ScotlandDaniel Turner Holmes
The maudlin stockman had indeed to be restrained by his neighbors from precipitating himself upon the barrels of Stingaree.
StingareeE. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster.
The Johnstown HorrorJames Herbert Walker
Gorki's cheap sentiment, and maudlin pity, often result in clap-trap and padding which are foreign to the artist proper.
Maxim GorkiHans Ostwald