| 单词 | maudlin |
| 例句 | I would have liked to have a good, maudlin drunk, but I couldn’t afford it, so I made my slow, limping way back across the river as the sun was setting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It occurs to her that maybe Terry’s reluctance to take on this project has as much to do with avoiding this kind of maudlin moment as avoiding the work itself. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This is mortifying and maudlin and, honestly, I hope you forget it as soon as you’ve read it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Just the fact that you considered it means—” “We’re getting maudlin here,” Sim broke in, knocking his glass against the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I always think,” the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I’m going to be maudlin for the next few days, remembering times gone by. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I could almost hear Luzan’s bird-high voice, a bizarre pitch that like much else about him was a little silly, a dress of maudlin order on a man of such girth and weight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a greatest-hits album of Jones and Wynette anecdotes, some presented with style and some perfunctory or maudlin, strung together between songs. ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t) 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z His first solo studio album in 13 years, “The Tree of Forgiveness” echoes with allusions to death—which might be expected given his health woes—yet it is never maudlin. ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ Review: John Prine on Life’s Agonies and Absurdities 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z "I did not want to write a maudlin book," she says in an interview, "I wanted people to laugh." Reporter faces life's toughest deadline with book 2013-03-09T14:34:13Z This kind of material can easily veer into either the maudlin or the blasphemous, but Belafonte’s playful yet practical performance achieves the perfect balance of winking wit and gentle lesson-learning. Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z He admits to having a similar maudlin blindspot when it comes to Detroit's Coney dogs — a beef frankfurter on a bun smothered in beanless chili, mustard, onions and shredded cheese. A love letter to Chicago’s tavern pizza, interrupted 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z He manages to sound the depths of a lifelong friendship without becoming maudlin. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Want to replace the maudlin sensation left behind by a gothic murder tale? Edinburgh fringe theatre: Sub Rosa; Of Women and Horses I Have Known; Long Live the King; The Author; My Romantic History; Speechless 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z It's in this maudlin spirit that I recall the first time I had quicos, the Spanish version of the corn nut that is my all-time favorite bar snack. The tangible joy of quicos, the crunchy Spanish bar snack that's worth the noise 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Shalhoub infuses his performance with an elegiac tenderness that never descends into the maudlin. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z It could have ended up being maudlin and precious. Gregg Olsen's top 10 deadly reads 2012-11-15T12:39:02Z You could roll your eyes at her maudlin excesses and her spiritual imperiousness, but you couldn't deny her clout, or her courage. Oprah's Finale: Honoring the Host Who Took the High Road 2011-05-23T09:00:00Z It is sometimes maudlin, sometimes trivial and sometimes very moving, but never less than achingly sincere. “Wish I Was Here”: Zach Braff’s controversial Kickstarter comeback 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But even as fans celebrate the current “Love Story” milestone, many others deride the film, released at the height of Vietnam and the counterculture, as maudlin, old-fashioned and just plain schlocky. Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z The maudlin scenes drag on, and the livelier moments pass by too quickly. | 'Footloose': ?Footloose? Remake, With Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid 2011-10-13T15:43:03Z Now, the exuberant, sentimental esprit of “Bojangles,” from its impassioned sex scenes to its moments of tender longing, puts it in constant jeopardy of seeming maudlin or, worse, a little corny. ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s not as good-looking, it’s more conventional, and it’s prone to getting maudlin about times gone by. ‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He always made a point of looking exhausted, trying to make viewers wonder if he would make it all the way through the 21 ½ hours to his quavering, maudlin rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The TV Watch: Muscular Dystrophy Telethon Takes Steps Without Jerry Lewis 2011-09-05T21:10:25Z Jamison avoided those maudlin pitfalls and instead elegantly captured the poetry in the Joni Mitchell song, recorded here by Diana Krall. Alvin Ailey dancers give Segerstrom audience humanity, heart and 'Revelations' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z My first thought is of certain and immediate death, followed by a maudlin song orchestrating a montage of good moments. Flying Close to Temptation 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Fleming offered a slightly maudlin rendition of “Danny Boy” and a kicky version of “Shall We Dance,” from “The King and I,” with just a touch of the light fantastic. Review: Renée Fleming, a Voice With Wardrobe Changes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Luckily, Tatum’s self-deprecating charm and Carolin’s script keep the story on the tolerable side of maudlin. ‘Dog’ Review: Man and Beast Hit the Road 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z When she started taking medication to control the seizures, it made her giddy, and she worried it would make her write maudlin fiction. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The themes in "Amateurs" — friendship, love, envy — could potentially make for a maudlin novel. Growing up is hard to do in 'Amateurs' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “The Seasons” is a challenge — not because it’s hard, but because it’s hard to keep it from being maudlin. Lang Lang offers a generous helping of serious music at engaging recital 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z I also misted up during the “Do You Love Me?” duet, which seemed less maudlin and unforced in this naturalistic interpretation. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Reflecting on her experience, she is never maudlin and almost always amusing. Theater Review: ‘Ruff,’ Peggy Shaw’s New Solo Show at Performance Space 122 2013-01-13T22:41:46Z Baldwin is a hot-tempered, maudlin, navel-gazing bozo, and one of the great character actors and improvisational comics alive. "The Hangover 2's" Mel Gibson hypocrisy 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z Admiration and affection vied with ambition and jealousy to forge relationships with more than their share of explosive outbursts and maudlin reconciliations. Creative tensions 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z I cried at the National Theatre, and yet I can't face the maudlin sentimentality of the film. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z He described “growing ever more oppressed with each maudlin passage.” Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Everything about “The Stranger in the Lifeboat” is sketched in cartoon colors — from its vacuous theology and maudlin tragedies to its class warfare theme. Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z That said, Mr. Church is as given to the maudlin as any of the great mainstream country singers of the 2000s. On ‘Mr. Misunderstood,’ Eric Church Pays Homage to His Influences 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z “Small Craft Warnings” belongs in that sad canon of problematic late Williams plays in which flashes of poetry and bruising emotional truth wrestle with maudlin self-indulgence — and lose. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z As if pulled from the script of some maudlin made-for-TV movie, the grandmother had words of wisdom for Chang on her deathbed. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z And I've read some reviews that call this maudlin or manipulative. Comics: Graphic novel 'Stargazing Dog' is emotionally wrenching 2011-10-17T16:03:37Z But Mr. Lochtefeld actually manages to give a sincere and human-scale performance, even if most of what he has to say is maudlin hogwash. Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It's of Louise and Co singing, with Marling, their debut single, Melancholy, "a maudlin treatise on whiskey, wine and the blues" that is as deeply predictable as the press release implies. New band of the day ? No 1,069: Louise and the Pins 2011-07-25T16:26:02Z He shifts abruptly between such comedy and maudlin disclosures from his traumatic past, as if his jaded persona were breaking down, but this, too, is just more shtick. Jack Ferver’s ‘Night Light Bright Light’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z When Coach died on Cheers, the show’s pitch-perfect handling of it–emotional but not maudlin–allowed us to grieve him like family. All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry: Family Guy and When Sitcoms Kill 2013-11-26T15:14:22Z The show wasn’t defined only by its maudlin moments, however. Review | Even a sad Stevie Wonder concert is one of the happiest ways to spend an evening 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Anne Tyler’s novels tend to walk a narrow line between the moving and the sentimental, the sympathetic and the maudlin, the evocative and the banal. Anne Tyler’s 20th Novel, ‘A Spool of Blue Thread’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Yet the show somehow avoids becoming overly maudlin. William Shatner boldly tackles death on Broadway 2012-02-17T15:36:11Z She’s less successful when she turns serious, trying for a poignancy that requires more acting skill than she possesses; several segments are more maudlin than moving. Review: ‘Not That Jewish,’ but Funny Just the Same 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z We’ll forgive him and his students, flush with the joys and indignations of youth, for the occasional maudlin speech — and Ayouch for the attendant schmaltz. ‘Casablanca Beats’ Review: Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “The style is a trifle primitive,” one observer wrote about Anderson’s prose, “gauche, aggressive, maudlin ... it speaks in pungent slang.” Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z “It was not a sad or maudlin night, but a comforting one,” Ms. Joiner said. Adult Children of AIDS Victims Take Their Memories Out of the Shadows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Joining together at the end, they ran through “Poor Little Benny,”a son’s maudlin plea to his father to come home. Music Review: Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy 2010-07-21T22:41:00Z The show has a bad habit of blasting maudlin pop ballads to signal Annie’s moodier moments, but the action scenes — particularly a hotel room barrage of sniper fire in the pilot episode — are first rate. | 'Covert Affairs': USA?s ?Covert Affairs? Evokes a Cold War Feeling 2010-07-12T21:49:00Z There was no hint of maudlin in this performance, though, despite the despair that entangles some of the songs. Neko Case, Mavis Staples captivating at Hideout 2013-09-07T05:25:00Z Will the show's maudlin, tinkling piano chords eventually seem preferable to the ludicrous credits sequence of faux-church paintings set to a swelling orchestra? HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “It could be ripped as a maudlin tearjerker, another song about a sad-sack white guy!” The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z The results can be maudlin and introspective – but not in the case of Astonishing Archie. Astonishing Archie – review 2012-11-21T18:15:47Z That core flaw leaves Cumming floundering, fluctuating between goofy and maudlin. Review: From His Letters, the Dark Side of a Man of Letters 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z It's not as hokey or maudlin as it sounds. Travolta makes impression in the passable 'Forger' crime drama 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s a world of scarcity, all right, yet what’s truly meager, and often maudlin, is the movement vocabulary, which buckles without building. Review: Waging Battle With Scarcity and Borders at La MaMa Dance Festival 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z His friendship with the late Charles, especially, tugs at his memory, but instead of maudlin repetition a conversation with Jones is like talking to a jukebox loaded with platinum singles. Quincy Jones' long and restless song 2011-01-02T06:00:00Z His unerring tempos and sensitivity to harmonic subtleties elevate music that might seem maudlin to a touchingly sincere evocation of a bygone age. CD reviews: Cellist Isserlis shows guts in Bach 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Sap and bombast: The concert, two acts and 27 numbers long, had overblown and maudlin moments. Signature sings out: The 25th anniversary concert “The Night Shift” follows the “Grey’s” template of crazy plotting and maudlin sentiment but dials down the emotional temperature — the tone is more neutral, or more flat. ‘The Night Shift’ Dispenses a Familiar Prescription 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Music is always a very important part of any movie and in that case it helped keep it light and not so maudlin. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Commonly, when a choreographer tries to express a state of emergency though dance, the results are obvious, didactic or maudlin. A Dance About the State of Emergency We’re In 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z In driving home his message, Mr. Fugard can strike sentimental notes, too, that verge on the maudlin. Theater Review: Athol Fugard in His Play ‘The Shadow of the Hummingbird’ 2014-04-11T22:48:25Z This cacophonous music — more than the pushy, maudlin musical soundtrack — provides “In Darkness” with a kernel of authenticity, as does Mr. Wieckiewicz’s stoical performance. | 'In Darkness': ?In Darkness? From Agnieszka Holland - Review 2011-12-09T01:31:14Z “I just feel there’s something slightly maudlin about it.” Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Which is too bad, because that surrenders a large chunk of screen time to the trudge of recovery and Callahan’s maudlin callbacks to the mother who abandoned him and whom he blames for his addiction. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Such programs can easily fall into the trap of social politics and turn maudlin, agenda driven and campy. Music Review: A Program of Personal Significance 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z Nijinksy Heart is one of his better later tunes, but there's a troublingly maudlin undercurrent to all the confessionals and farewells. Marc Almond: Variet? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z What saves “Ex-Wife” from utter maudlin despair is the same formula that has made 50 similarly themed TV shows hits. She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z “Internal Structure of Stars” is Gowery’s maudlin autobiographical tale of abandonment at 11 by his tubercular parents. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z “They did a whole thing about Chuckie’s mom, and that she died, this whole very maudlin thing,” he said. Rugrats Creator Explains What Actually Happened to Chuckie's Mom 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Each summer, thousands of Ivy League graduates emerge from their gilded residence halls, flush with the maudlin optimism of canned commencement addresses. ‘An Innocent Fashion,’ by R.J. Hernández: The millennial fairy tale 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z With its keenly-arranged ukulele, cello and maudlin accordions, it helps that the song sounds so utterly French that all the stereotypically monochrome cinematic images of Romantic Paris spring to mind. Houellebecq makes sweet music 2011-03-02T12:12:31Z The movie’s lack of imaginative freedom reduces personal identity to pictorial identity; the grandiose and maudlin melodrama to which the movie rises feels as manipulative as did the dénouement of “Infinity War.” Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z They're about to go on stage and he doesn't want to be maudlin. And God created controversy 2010-10-08T23:03:00Z The Atlantic has not yet published a maudlin “think piece” about the “chilling effect” these firings will have on other professors who broadcast speech, offensive or not, on social media or television. There is a campus war on free speech — but it’s not being waged by “snowflake” students 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z And however maudlin and dishonest this little drama may be, it delights the book clubs, party givers and sorority girls who eagerly treat the plantation as a piece of living history. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z Frankel’s movie brings together two extraordinary realms of activity—advertising and theatre—and reduces them to mere incidentals of its gaslighting plot and its maudlin dive into recovery from grief. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z I hate to sound maudlin—I’m very practical and I’m very focused on the realities—but the fact is I’ve been really touched by this sense of community.” After Hurricane Sandy: Flooded New York City Galleries Rebuild As New Restoration Resources Announced 2012-11-08T19:01:39Z Lyrically, it has be something very smart and not maudlin and just fresh enough to keep things interesting. A Conversation with Bonnie Raitt 2013-10-11T09:45:43Z In his TV series, he’s indulged his squishy side, a little in “Extras,” and a lot in the maudlin “Derek,” in which he played a beatific, childlike nursing-home worker. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z And Wall, again, created something beautiful yet not maudlin, like many of the "for my parents" pieces on the show. Guy-on-guy dancing perks up "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-07-15T12:01:00Z In support of this, I give you “Blackbird,” a right-to-die drama so inauthentic and maudlin that the terminal illness suffered by its central character is no more than a suction device for the audience’s tears. ‘Blackbird’ Review: The Goodbye Girl 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise. Review: ‘Full House’ Sequel Is a Forced March Down Memory Lane 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The slightly more country-rock instrumentation aside, this is still Lightbody in default mode: turning dark or maudlin subjects into epic, yearning anthems that raise hands or mobile phones into the air. Tired Pony: The Place We Ran From 2010-07-15T22:59:00Z But even on the most vulnerable songs, she maintains her cool, never once verging on the maudlin. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z “The translation of pain is always edgy, and emotional pain can be maudlin.” After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z There is also a light dusting of mediocre worthiness and maudlin sentimentality over everything, as good women battle against the odds, and against the difficult circumstances, to bring babies into a difficult world. TV review: The Snowman and The Snowdog; Doctor Who: The Snowmen; Call The Midwife 2012-12-25T20:45:00Z On the other hand, you might cringe to see the film’s wit and delicacy ruined by maudlin excess and wish you could remix the tape to get rid of that song you always hated. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z Don't expect a maudlin affair – this should be cheesier than a bag of Wotsits dipped in fondue – but it's hard to imagine that he would have wanted it any other way. The Great Offices of State | Lizzie and Sarah | Wonders of the Solar System | Jersey Shore and more | Watch this at the weekend 2010-03-20T06:45:00Z In less capable hands, such material could come across as maudlin, but Ms. Wainwright has a light touch and an eye for telling detail. Martha Wainwright Tells a Few Stories She Might Regret 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Over the years, Sheldon’s social awkwardness and off-putting superiority was woven into his friendships and eventual marriage as a matter of mirth, rather than being singled out for maudlin tonal shifts away from comedy. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Tumarkin takes up subjects like youth suicide and the plight of homeless people in North Melbourne, but her approach is never maudlin. The Best Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The women in Mr. Connelly’s various series tend to bring out their men’s maudlin sides, and none of them have anything like Harry’s stature or curb appeal. Books of The Times: Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch in ‘The Black Box’ 2012-11-21T20:55:23Z She performed it on acoustic guitar, eventually joining two of her bandmates, also playing guitar, for a maudlin, Eagles-like effect that punctured the sharp vulnerability with which she opened. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “Without the silly animal things, it would get too maudlin.” ‘BoJack Horseman’: Here Are the Best Animal Gags 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Gilman, the Tribune critic, once accused the symphony of “weeping maudlin chromatic tears like an impotent Tristan.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The scene in the Groundlings lobby, after the '80s show, is a bit maudlin. The Groundlings: improving improv in L.A. for 40 years 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z The treacle trap was especially hard to avoid considering that “Matilda” and “Groundhog Day” deal with children and redemption — subjects that have been known to trigger maudlin triteness. Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a slightly antiquated notion that usually leads to pretension and maudlin indulgence. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He was maudlin, breaking into tears whenever mentioning his former classmates and his notorious calendar, and constantly swigging from glasses of water. ‘S.N.L.’ Has Matt Damon Play Brett Kavanaugh in Season Premiere 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The two met while auditioning for roles in a community theater production of "The Dark Tower" in 1938 — Nixon, the thespian! — and were married after two years of courtship and maudlin letters. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Another chapter covers Barbara’s short-lived marriage to Connolly, during which the maudlin, jowly critic soon took to lying in the bathtub for hours and murmuring “I wish I was dead.” Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The original elegiac, maudlin homage to Cronkite and Murrow has been scrapped in favor of sprightlier music and a snappy montage of clocks, newspapers, smartphones, scripts, laptops, spilled coffee, video monitors and stiletto-heeled pumps. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom’ Returns, With Some New Faces and Issues 2013-07-12T21:33:38Z But I was determined not to write a melancholy or maudlin record about isolation. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “Letters From Max: A Book of Friendship,” published in 2018, is never for an instant maudlin. Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “I’m not being maudlin or creating a shrine, just acknowledging that their dad lived and he played a role in their lives,” she explains. What happens to our online identities when we die? 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z But the titles of her books alone show how maudlin her imagination is: “A Time to Die.” Lurlene McDaniel has made a career of making people cry 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Definitely a few of them are beyond maudlin. "I went full Christmas": Rhett Miller on writing holiday songs for now and for the ages 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z But “Clemency” never gets maudlin as it addresses the issue of what have folks done with or made of their lives. Alfre Woodard is devastating in the beautifully bleak death-penalty drama "Clemency" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z If he’d been a less idiosyncratic or elegant singer, his voice might have made his work feel maudlin or showy. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And as Malti, Padukone is by turns inquisitive, watchful and serene but never maudlin. Chhapaak Review: Life and Activism After an Acid Attack 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But their tension was indicated only by distance; when they clasped hands in the end, it was unconvincingly maudlin. Dance Review: Sometimes a Little of This and Some More of That Add Up to a Lot 2010-10-01T22:56:00Z For many music lovers, the pianist’s show-and-tell performing style and his willingness to ignore basic rules of musical rhetoric when there’s a dramatic or maudlin point to be made are appalling. Lang Lang leads BSO into 100th season 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Some of them have been downright awful; schmaltzy family comedies drenched in maudlin sentiment, such as the unwatchably saccharine Patch Adams or, even worse, Old Dogs. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z In essence, Touchy Feely is a maudlin piece with little by way of comic relief. Sundance film festival 2013: Touchy Feely – first look review 2013-01-22T12:04:53Z The maudlin nature of “A Whole New World” has been parodied to death over the years, but it’s still one of the most unabashedly breathtaking and romantic sequences Disney’s ever put together. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Topics: , Sadie, dogs, , “A dog is a tragedy,” a maudlin New Yorker growled at me over drinks after I first arrived in the city last August with my dog, Sadie. I’m on the road! 2013-04-06T15:32:00Z When gazing directly into the abyss, there’s no better pick-me-up for a maudlin, middle-aged dipsomaniac than a tag-team pair of star-struck female admirers. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Is it the maudlin score, which sounds like a depressed eight-year-old practicing for her first piano recital? It’s official: This is the worst movie ending of all time 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He played piano on Bobbie Goldsboro’s “Honey,” the maudlin ballad that reached No. 1 on both the country and the pop charts in 1968. Larry Butler, Producer for Kenny Rogers, Dies at 69 2012-01-24T23:52:41Z It was an odd, awkward, maudlin and, in keeping with the show’s habits, self-referential exercise. ‘Supernatural’ Lays Its Weary Head to Rest 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z That sounds cringingly maudlin, but Ackerman, who served as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z “Before I Fall” is tactful rather than maudlin, tasteful rather than lurid, soothing rather than creepy. Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “I didn’t want this collection to be some maudlin sad thing,” he said. London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z "Wade captures the tribal language, the joshing and later the maudlin gibbering of these young blades with a maliciously sharp ear," says Spencer. What to say about ... Posh 2010-04-19T10:34:00Z As maudlin as it sounds, Bruce was there. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Kitt’s music has a generic pop sound that sometimes works, as in “Drum Circle,” a Disney-esque tune chock-full of lively, layered percussion; and “Heart in Your Hands,” a rather maudlin song with angelic harmonies. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z South Korea’s conflicted attitudes toward North Korea are the subject of Jang Cheol-Soo’s “Secretly Greatly,” a wicked satire that, like “Drug War,” eventually takes a wrong turn, ending on a maudlin note. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival Offers Sturdy Hollywood Themes 2013-06-28T22:13:41Z It could easily be maudlin or depressing, but Faces Places is an exhilarating celebration of life. Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The media coverage surrounding this 10th anniversary will likely constitute its own deluge, dominated by maudlin memories of catastrophe and self-righteous hype about recovery. “It’s not just a party, it’s our life”: Jazz musicians led the way back to the city after Katrina — but what is this “new” New Orleans? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z That also makes Kramer's classic terminally maudlin, which is what happens when a movie revolves around a message as opposed to making us believe in human relationships and emotions. Where's the love, "You People"? The frustration of Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill's interracial rom-com 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z By the time Mr. Chance is finished with the song, a maudlin but impressive take, the room is infected. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z It’s his sense of humor that keeps the memoir from feeling too maudlin. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Ghost Stories 2011-07-15T18:49:37Z A maudlin horn keeps Berman company as he struggles to accept the way lives are buffeted by chaos and loss. David Berman: Hear 12 Essential Songs 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z So his ending wasn't one last raging, desk-topping tantrum, and it wasn't maudlin either. 2010-01-23T14:24:00Z I don't mean to be maudlin or anything, but I really do believe that writing down your family recipes is a way to also hear stories. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The doleful vocals over gently epic, lushly orchestrated piano rock that soundtracks Vic's maudlin meditations – you could easily imagine this stuff catching on with that kind of audience. New band of the day – Satellites (No 1,431) 2013-01-15T15:37:00Z Mr. Shchedrin, who wrote his own libretto, selects only a handful of these episodes and telescopes the story into a maudlin quest for redemption. ‘The Enchanted Wanderer,’ by the Mariinsky Theater, at BAM 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Then it’s off to the garage for some light paperwork before swinging past the graveyard on this maudlin victory lap. Sons of Anarchy Watch: Out With A Bang 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This book’s mile-wide maudlin streak touches the Silvers, but not excessively. Books of The Times: ‘One Last Thing Before I Go’ by Jonathan Tropper 2012-08-15T20:45:56Z I always sound maudlin when I say that poetry saved my life, but it absolutely did. 5 ways to help girls survive a deeply sexist world 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Only in the show’s outlandishly maudlin finale does she really put her stamp on things. Review: A New ‘Rocky Horror,’ Stripped of Subversive Magic 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It manages the difficult trick of venturing into seriousness without growing overly maudlin or preachy. CBS’s ‘Mom’ Handles Issues Beyond Kissing Boo-Boos 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Fleischner’s virtuous intentions, his sidelong hints at political questions, are undercut by their maudlin tone; the panorama veers to caricature. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z For that matter, the language throughout is so maudlin, clichéd and portentous that the novel reads like an energetic parody. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z Our Cassandra is Mildred Groves, a woman in her early 20s who is aggravated by a dull life of caring for her irritable, controlling mother and exasperating people with her visions of maudlin future events. In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Given half a chance, I can grow impressively maudlin. Review | To get us through, finding the wisdom of books written in isolation 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z A twist near the end sends this contrived movie into a maudlin stratosphere from which it doesn’t recover. | 'Bodyguard': ?Bodyguard? With Salman Khan - Review 2011-08-31T21:42:33Z The theatrical prompt puts good use to Mann’s more maudlin songwriting instincts, and gives her occasion to indulge in lush orchestrations. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Each of Hannah’s tapes—which are all, like her intro, written and delivered with an implausible, maudlin aplomb—singles out an individual who abandoned her on her journey to suicide. “13 Reasons Why” Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Her dramatic skills are superb, letting her master even pathos-ridden roles without being maudlin. AP Interview: Mezzo says opera tough business 2012-03-28T11:26:08Z The song had been written by her brother for his band, but Eilish convincingly translated the maudlin dreaminess of lyrics like “Burning cities and napalm skies / fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes.” Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The line between art and message is a delicate one to tread, and films like these tend to fall clumsily on the side of the maudlin and oversimplified. The Limits of “Message Movies” about Africa 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z "Too many of the evening's nearly two dozen performances felt leaden, maudlin or both," added the Washington Post's Chris Richards. Grammy audience falls three million 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z When I hear the words "Richard Hawley", I imagine a man semi-preserved in pomade, picking a maudlin melody on his guitar and crooning about an ill-fated liaison in a charity shop. This week's new tracks 2012-07-13T23:11:21Z But not all that is modern is maudlin this year at Bayreuth. Rats and recycling: Wacky Wagner at Bayreuth 2011-08-03T22:16:04Z It’s to Colin Farrell’s credit that Ray’s redemption story, which could have turned maudlin or tiresome, always felt like an authentic struggle. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z "Lost" provided some resolution, even if it was a maudlin one. J.J. Abrams still smarts from "Lost" finale criticism 2011-08-04T23:05:00Z “I tried to express how those guys were,” he said, “but I didn’t want to write a maudlin, nostalgic story.” Rock ghosts play again 2013-03-01T00:47:33Z Gervais’s show may be even more morally didactic; it has a sentimental, even maudlin streak that has become all the more pronounced in his later comedies, like “After Life.” How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z As a purely emotional experience it succeeds without feeling too manipulative or maudlin. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It's a great combination, as Niva's maudlin voice, drenched in reverb, echoes off the surfaces of the shiny machinery, heightening the alienation effect. New band of the day ? No 974: Niva 2011-02-25T17:37:15Z The deference paid to the day’s horror was dignified, not shrill or maudlin, and typified by the tasteful memorial silver ribbons the Tony attendees wore. Critic’s Notebook: Miranda’s big night, and Corden’s larger truths 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The conglomerate style is bewildering: Masked dancers, skeleton puppetry and screamed Lorca poetry meet maudlin acrobatics you might find on “So You Think You Can Dance?” Finding a Home at La MaMa Moves! 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z And when these women’s tales are strung together, there’s something maudlin about the “almost” of their lives. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Galgut's not after any kind of universal truth, however: at no point is his book maudlin or grandiose. The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fiction 2010-09-08T08:50:00Z I also found the music, by Michael Thurber, distracting rather than enhancing, with hokey, maudlin strings and piano used too heavily between scenes. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Lyrically, the songs are mature meditations about marital strife that skirt maudlin clichés. The Lone Bellow Releases a New Album 2013-01-21T22:28:54Z These were not, by the way, maudlin interviews. He Made a Show About Grief. She Saw Herself In It. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z A lyrical detour to a Kazakh dive bar features Eden’s rules for heavy drinking: “You should be in good health, not stressed, and certainly not argumentative or maudlin,” she writes. Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z It wasn’t so much maudlin as eerie, and the silence was deafening. Dance Review: Combative Fire in Swirls, Wails and Striking Steps 2010-12-03T22:10:00Z It may well have been, and this maudlin film somehow makes that day seem even worse. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z His often maudlin country style was perfect for performing to inmates, with whom he was able to share emotions from the "Wangford Hall of Pain". Did Cliff Richard ever do a Johnny Cash at Strangeways? 2013-02-13T15:20:01Z Communication with the dead is a risky business, principally because once the door to the beyond opens a tiny crack, all kinds of maudlin nonsense come rushing in. | 'Hereafter': The Dead Have Messages for the Land of the Living 2010-10-14T21:49:00Z As portrayed by Mr. Felder, America’s great vernacular songwriter was a maudlin, embittered old man all his life. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z And how much would the other characters on the show be allowed to grieve onscreen, if at all, before it becomes too maudlin? How “Riverdale” gave Luke Perry the heartfelt sendoff the “90210” revival could not 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But I shouldn’t get maudlin here: Damon Lindelof isn’t actually disappearing. Damon Lindelof and Why Twitter Is Not Always for Everyone 2013-10-16T21:47:33Z The first hour, especially, is charming, before the balance shifts from romance to melodrama to, in the final minutes, the kind of maudlin crescendo that Asian audiences are accustomed to. | 'A Beautiful Life': A Contemporary Romantic Melodrama 2011-05-20T00:08:33Z Ms. Lowell’s book qualifies as an addiction memoir about alcohol abuse, but not a dull or maudlin one. Books of The Times: Life Among the Upper Crust, Seen From Two Generations 2010-12-12T23:24:00Z The article reminded readers that the day “is not one of maudlin sentiment, but rather tends to emphasize the home as the highest inspiration of our individual and national lives.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Which is to say, for all its maudlin escapism, the film sheds light on enduring concerns about motherhood, biology, and parental rights almost a century after it is set. The motherhood cure-all: “The Light Between Oceans” illuminates a reckless romance with adoption fallacies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z When she began writing it, “I actually worried that the book’s depictions of naked racism and violence would seem too extreme, too maudlin,” she said. How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “No maudlin treatment of a guy with a terrible diagnosis,” Guggenheim said. Making a Michael J. Fox Movie With Michael J. Fox’s Movies 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z “The character’s pluck and mischief are nearly drowned in a bog of maudlin mommy love, and his vows of vengeance dampen the spirit of fun,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z “I don’t think this is a maudlin film,” Ms. Kopple said. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet some of his older selections, though re-enacted faithfully, suffered from maudlin staging. Music Review: Josh Groban at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-11-15T22:42:12Z Its ruthless female rivalries, maudlin dialogue and tawdry show-business abuses are catnip for any devotee of camp. Theater Review: ‘Showgirls! The Musical!’ at XL Nightclub 2013-05-29T20:55:17Z What results in popular culture is an unfinished and maudlin portrait. Ellen Page doesn’t spend much time worrying about what straight men think. Here’s why that’s important. 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Assured and affecting performances from the cast succeed in tugging at heartstrings, especially Smith’s, whose frail ox ready for pasture is rueful but grounded, in a role that might easily turn maudlin. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Nowadays there is a ready audience for maudlin narratives of dispossession and exile. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z Toward the end of this volume, the writing also grows increasingly glib and maudlin — two qualities the singer, even at his lowest, assiduously avoided. Review: ‘Sinatra: The Chairman,’ His World, His Way 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z I used to have this unhealthy habit of playing his songs when I was drunk and maudlin. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Though the production was often melodramatic – and maudlin misfires like “The Last Letter” cropped up more often than ever -- Jones brought a rock-like dependability to most of his vocals. George Jones: Country singer dies at 81 2013-04-26T16:21:00Z Too many of the evening’s nearly two dozen performances felt leaden, maudlin or both. 2015 Grammys: One dark night of the soul 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The first song, “The Void,” suggests, without being remotely maudlin, a fumbling need to fill an emptiness, while the closing number, “Good Not Bad,” playfully subverts its cheery melody. ‘Come for Me’ Review: T.M.I. in Overdrive 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In “Sometimes I Forget You’re Gone” and “You Greet Her Ghost,” the turmoil in his drumming topples expectations and amplifies the anxiety and regret in potentially maudlin or hackneyed scenarios. Album review: Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun' 2012-02-27T18:49:00Z The author’s older sister and father committed suicide, and her novel is heartbreaking where another might be maudlin. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z What saves this heartfelt album from being overly maudlin is how grounded the emotion is — and also Ferg’s rapping, which is kinetic and antic. Review: ASAP Ferg’s Big Heart Pulses on ‘Always Strive and Prosper’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Dropping the bomb of my dad’s death during final wedding preparations often seemed both absurd and maudlin. The Wedding That Wasn’t Sad 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Set to a maudlin score, and featuring Eisenberg wearing "female undergarments" in one extended scene, "Resistance" is exasperating to watch. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “Aashayein” has sad moments — patients die — but the prevailing mood is less maudlin than oddly playful, with a dash of mysticism. | 'Aashayein': Handsome Guy Is Dying, but He Can Afford Care 2010-08-29T23:11:00Z And apparently to my fellow audience members, so many of whom must have been from non-English speaking countries that I found myself alone in laughing at some of the clever and maudlin wordplay. Frugal Traveler: A Visit to London, With Students as My Guide 2011-03-29T21:57:15Z She made her first Web series at 21, an age when the rest of us were trying to cover our zits and pen the occasional maudlin poem. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z As the album progresses, the mood shifts from maudlin to twee, with a song about "a little room", and another called My Love Will Clap Its Hands for You. The Candle Thieves: Sunshine and Other Misfortunes | CD review 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z For more than 11 minutes Ms. Eisenberg carefully controls her stoic tone, using unexpected comic timing to stave off maudlin sentiment. Critic?s Notebook: Advancing a New Form of Comedy: Storytelling 2012-04-04T22:52:28Z No need to interrupt glee with maudlin sentiment. Cirque du Soleil's "Viva Elvis" outfabs Beatles 2010-02-21T23:34:00Z They are melody made torment, choruses made grief, hooks of despondency and woe, a steamy squirt of maudlin pandering. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z “Midsummer in Newtown” leans heavily on maudlin musical cues, cheapening its subjects’ words. Review: ‘Midsummer in Newtown’ Revisits the Pain of Sandy Hook 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Letterman’s last Late Show was nostalgic but not maudlin, gracious but not mournful, valedictory but not a eulogy. David Letterman Leaves Us, Laughing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z At 16, Howard only listened to maudlin singer-songwriters and hated anything electronic. Disclosure: how the Lawrence brothers are rebooting dance culture 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Kolker, a contributing editor for New York magazine, has a way of describing bad childhoods without pressing down too grimly, without becoming maudlin or overly condemning of the situations people have found themselves in. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z Without going maudlin, he connected with two dead friends. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z Only after Nixon defended himself by giving his maudlin “Checkers” speech on national television did Ike give the public demonstration of support craved by his vice-presidential candidate. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z The need to compress history leads to moments that are maudlin or heavy-handed. Review: One Vote for ‘Victoria’ Over ‘The Crown’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The overwrought lyricism and lack of musical subtlety kept turning the opera melodramatic, even maudlin. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z I mean, it is manipulative and maudlin, but in a way that seems fair and transparent. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z If I drink gin, I turn into a big, maudlin crybaby,” someone asserts. “Tequila crazy” and “martini maudlin”: Do different kinds of alcohol give us a different buzz? 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Tropical staccato guitar and orchestral sounds intensify without becoming overly maudlin. FKA Twigs 'LP1' Review 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Culbreath’s dance of grief, though a touch maudlin in its miming, uses the expressive potential of b-boy steps, the way he spirals and windmills on his back, to intensely moving effect. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But Ms. Kilmartin touched on the toughest moments of mourning without a note of the maudlin. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z It is easy in a country dedicated to a megalomaniacal style of self-praise to grow tired of all the parades, hymns, and maudlin speeches about the wisdom of the “founding fathers.” We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But too often — “Fly,” “Save Me,” “Here I Am” — she turns maudlin, as if in search of an Oprah couch. Critic?s Notebook: Gaining an Edge in Female Rap Race 2010-11-23T23:07:00Z The section “Sinner Man” was desperate rather than exuberant; the grief in Jamar Roberts’s “I Wanna Be Ready” solo was harrowing, never maudlin. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z Julio Quintana’s “The Vessel” is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss. Review: ‘The Vessel’: Learning to Forge Ahead After Wrenching Loss 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet it is very easy to imagine a more maudlin and less adept adaptation of Jesse Andrews’s novel, particularly one not anchored by Thomas Mann’s performance. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Comedy and poignancy weave together in Mr. Virzì’s hands, but the maudlin meter only occasionally goes into the red zone. | 'The First Beautiful Thing': Family Portrait 2011-04-15T04:23:08Z And I don’t find it in any way maudlin and saccharine — which used to be good words in opera, but I understand why we hesitate to indulge in that. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The heavy-handed attempt at dramatic irony in the flimsy connection between the playlets brought a maudlin resonance to this unconvincing encounter. Any Given Day 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z But in recent years there has been a swerve away from the novelty Crimbo hit towards something noticeably more maudlin. What happened to the novelty Christmas No 1? 2012-11-18T20:30:00Z It’s a haunting and profound farewell, though not one of maudlin anguish or tearfulness. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The character’s pluck and mischief are nearly drowned in a bog of maudlin mommy love, and his vows of vengeance dampen the spirit of fun. Review: ‘Pan’ Proposes Peter and Captain Hook’s Origin Stories 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z That gives Mr. Klass a platform for maudlin moaning about the invisibility of older people, but he can’t stay focused on this or anything else long enough to develop it. Movie Review: ‘Excuse Me for Living,’ Directed by Ric Klass 2012-10-12T01:30:44Z A plot summary of “Rust and Bone” might suggest a maudlin, therapeutic fable of healing, and in many ways — or, let’s say, in hindsight — the movie is just that. Movie Review: ‘Rust and Bone,’ Starring Marion Cotillard 2012-11-22T22:47:22Z Critics lauded Ms. O’Hara’s ability to keep the performance from turning maudlin. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Words that might be thought "at best maudlin, at worst painfully trite" become transformed in the "mouth of an expressive, and doomed, teenager". Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z But I think that we managed it without being too maudlin or saccharine or reductive or simplistic. The Stars of ‘Homeland’ Get Their Final Debriefing 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s almost unbelievable that Carney pulls off films like this, which could easily tip over into cheesy or maudlin territory. Review: ‘Flora and Son’ an utterly irresistible emotional earworm 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s almost unbelievable that Carney pulls off films like this, which could easily tip over into maudlin. Review: In the charming 'Flora and Son,' songwriting becomes a way forward to a happier life 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z But there’s no getting around the mishmash of goofily comic and maudlin tones “1776” largely operates in, nor is there a satisfying solution to its essentially toothless perspective on the founders’ moral failings. Is ‘1776’ at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre revolutionary? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Later though, the comedy dissipates as character after character experiences some personal revelation — complete with a maudlin monologue. Review: Colorful and zippy, 'The Beanie Bubble' ultimately feels understuffed 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Still, the set was more celebratory than maudlin, with elongated versions of their songs that felt refreshed and relaxed, despite the compressed running time. Foo Fighters make 'surprise' return to Glastonbury 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “My hope is that I will die of something else first. I don’t think that is maudlin. Everyone knows that dying of Alzheimer’s is pretty unpleasant for everybody.” The new face of Alzheimer’s: Early-stage patients who refuse to surrender 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z For the most part, it is warmly amusing without diving too far into the realm of the maudlin or treacly; and it side-steps anything insensitive while still enjoying some bawdy humor. Review: The inspiring if formulaic 'Champions' translates into a winner 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The movie then turns overly maudlin once Red realizes a lot of her friends in the impersonation community — herself included — are hiding from something. Review: Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher swap homes in gimmicky 'Your Place or Mine' 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z “Living,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” could have been maudlin and dreadful in the wrong hands. Death? Bill Nighy will worry about that later 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z And it’s graced by Weil’s superb performance as Avishag, a multilayered character who swings from maudlin sentimentality to the extremes of human desire. Review: COVID-19 gets the horror treatment in "Sick"; "Kids vs. Aliens" is sweetly scruffy 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z What could also make some Conservatives maudlin over the Christmas sherry is a building sense of wasted opportunity, what one party veteran even calls starkly, "years of political failure". Laura Kuenssberg: 'No coups, no plots - nobody cares' 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z During his live testimony last week, Dolan, who already pleaded guilty to conspiracy, told the jury he "literally" meant those maudlin texts when he wrote them. The Oath Keepers are using the "we were just kidding" white privilege defense 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z And his solo material has always been more maudlin than Take That's uplifting pop, full of lyrics about lost innocence, personal inadequacies and, on Four Minute Warning, the actual end of the world. Mark Owen on the Take That songs he avoids playing 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Less happily, she also did “Angel Down,” a maudlin torch song that represented the evening’s sole selection from her coolly received 2016 LP. At superstar stadium spectacle, Lady Gaga crashes through the surface 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “Come From Away” is propelled by a mood of perpetual uplift, saved from bloating into something distastefully maudlin by real acknowledgment of the devastation that precipitated this moment of human triumph. ‘Come From Away’ remains invigorating and heartening, even in pandemic-weary times 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z While tears are likely, it is not by any means a maudlin affair. From child actor to director, Hannah Marks is on the rise 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Yes, it has explicitly mournful stretches, skillfully carved by Ma with expressionistic playing that never skews maudlin. Perspective | The music of John Williams is more than just Hollywood movie scores 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z And folk-pop song “Lonely-Hearted People” has a hook credible enough for us to believe it propelled Kali to stardom, even if the lyrics suffocate on maudlin sentiment. Review: 5th Avenue’s ‘Afterwords’ relentlessly plucks at the same underdeveloped note 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z While not maudlin, he describes them with respect and gives them their due. Review | He caught the Golden State Killer, but the obsession took a toll 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But the entire painting is otherwise unpopulated, and Rorbye’s rendering is so unprejudiced, so tenderly disinterested, that it feels unviolated by the raging, maudlin mess that is human subjectivity. Perspective | So much depends upon sunlight and vines on a white wall The road-trip hijinks add a level of absurdity to the proceedings that keeps “Dog” from ever getting too heavy or maudlin. Review: How is Channing Tatum's directorial debut? Playful, laidback and pretty good 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “The penny dreadfuls were these kind of maudlin, cheap little horror and sci-fi serials about monsters and vampires and stuff,” said Joshua. Intiman Theatre taps into the enduring appeal of ‘Irma Vep’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Russian-born American writer Gary Shteyngart delivers the memoir ‘Little Failure,’ in which a would-be maudlin childhood becomes an ecstatic depiction of survival, guilt and perseverance. Gary Shteyngart's cozy, dystopian, soap-operatic immigrant COVID paradise 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The movie, which runs 2 hours and 56 minutes, brims with maudlin patriotism for the selfless sacrifice of soldiers who defeated the U.S.-led forces. Shutting down historical debate, China makes it a crime to mock heroes 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The ad, which features a woman telling a maudlin story about her son having "night terrors" from an assigned high school reading, is oblique about what book, exactly, Youngkin thinks should be censored. Stop downplaying the GOP's war on speech 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “Mom, you know how you told me I was maudlin before?” Analysis | ‘Introducing, Selma Blair’ gives Selma Blair the starring role she’s always deserved — as herself 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Brown helps actors choose from his taxonomy of archetypes: aloof drunk, happy drunk, maudlin drunk and angry drunk. How to Play Drunk 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z I focus on nothing but my feelings for the duration of the song, which expresses emotion in such cartoonish terms that, listening to it, I can indulge in maudlin self-pity. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z It reduced Ohio State Coach Ryan Day’s record to a maudlin 24-3 with a first regular season loss across three seasons. Oregon brings a little balance back to college football with its upset at Ohio State 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Sat on a piano stool, sporting some impressively voluminous sleeves, Sidorova imbued the piece with a nostalgic quality, deftly swerving maudlin sentimentality. Last Night Of The Proms: Accordion tangos end season on a joyous note 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s a promising concept that turns maudlin when the corpse talks in a boy’s voice, milking the sentiment out of an already fraught situation. Review | Seven directors capture life during a pandemic in ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Though occasionally dry, the docuseries’ sober tone also makes for a welcome refuge from the sea of maudlin or faux-suspenseful 9/11 content elsewhere. Perspective | What more is there to say about 9/11 on its 20th anniversary? TV specials grapple with that very issue. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s a bit cute for such a grisly event, but not nearly so much as the downright maudlin movie adaptation. It's been 20 years. Long enough to name the most memorable novel about Sept. 11 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In his few court appearances, he wavered between maudlin self-pity, smiling defiance and vague distraction. Bosnia's Mladic, commander of Europe's worst atrocities since World War Two 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z There are maudlin photos of a family ruined by gaming, and the quote “I’ve failed you as a father” comes in the second sentence. It’s okay to let kids play Fortnite during a global pandemic 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z At one point Chalamet sits at a piano and sings the standard “Everything Happens To Me” as a maudlin lament. Review: Woody Allen is back with 'A Rainy Day in New York.' But it's just more of the same 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Those more maudlin occurrences are outliers compared to the long history of success that the center has enjoyed in service to the White House. Things to know about Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – 'the President's Hospital' 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z But at the Tokyo Dome on that night in 1996, she belted this maudlin ’70s power ballad as though her life — or at least her career — depended on it. The 7 must-hear tracks from Mariah Carey's 'The Rarities' album: Listen 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Yes, it was moving and emotional at times, if also contrived and maudlin. Opinion | We learned nothing new from the first night of the Democratic National Convention 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Trite and maudlin language were absent in line after line of what was a very long piece — eight pages that I inhaled from beginning to end. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Don’t stay silent on anti-Semitism 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z “Babyteeth,” a drama of unruly intelligence and churning emotional force, brings a jolt of unpredictability to a type of movie usually known for its grim, maudlin excess: the coming-of-age, coming-of-death story. Review: 'Babyteeth,' starring Eliza Scanlen as a teenager diagnosed with cancer, cuts deep 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Last year, I could have killed the game, the system didn’t let me / A&Rs and bosses wishing fans would just forget me,” he raps on Press Record, the maudlin final track. Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out' 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z I post maudlinly on social media about my excess weight and receive no likes. ‘It makes me feel human’: 11 women share their lockdown beauty regimens 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Turner, who also wrote and produced, is mercifully unconcerned with maudlin victories or redemption. Review: Stephanie Turner's 'Justine' navigates a well-drawn, bittersweet slice of life 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Before I get too maudlin, let me posit an upside. The Games Will Come Back. The Moments We’ll Miss Are Already Gone. 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z That hasn’t come for this music – often acoustic, maudlin, faintly tinged with trip-hop – and I wonder if it ever will. Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z I said something to this effect, or perhaps something even more maudlin — why does the moon always seem to meet our gaze? How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The Clio commercial entered this terrain and, contra the advertising-as-arms-race metaphor, broke through using one of the oldest pieces of emotional weaponry there is: maudlin sentimentality. Is the Viral Non-Ad Ad the Future of Advertising? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Just this side of cloying, but the picture is sufficiently self-aware that it doesn’t get mired in the maudlin. ‘Spies in Disguise’ review: Will Smith goes into 007 mode for this lively, sweet animated comedy 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Outside, the public-address system was still playing maudlin music and the funfair, with its bumper cars and brightly-coloured ferris wheel, was beginning to rust. The truth about Chernobyl? I saw it with my own eyes… 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z You can be true to your grief without being maudlin. The naked truth: how to write a memoir 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z But maudlin thoughts are not made for this happy place in the woods, so we take a bike ride with the dogs racing ahead of us. William Wegman: ‘Weimaraners are serious and try hard. They’re spooky and shadowy’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The cumulative effect is downright maudlin, which is not what you might expect from a film with gallons of blood and other bodily fluids. Review | ‘It Chapter Two’ proves more isn’t always more when it comes to horror sequels 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z For all of its foodie appeal, however, “Ramen Shop” is a wispily sentimental enterprise, full of perfunctory transitions, maudlin plot twists and awkward time shifts between past and present. Review | ‘Ramen Shop’ offers a toothsome glance at some of the richest foodways on the planet 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Even the bad times, in recollection, seem somehow not to include him, though he was right there, drunk, sarcastic, maudlin, a phantom. Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Advertisers took several tacks in addressing the world outside the Super Bowl, and it made for a truly bizarre run of commercials that ranged from freakishly funny to downright maudlin. The best, worst and funniest ads of Super Bowl 2019 and the national mood for social change 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Wallowing in schmaltz is "Providence," tonight's new weekly drama from NBC about a Rhode Island household so cloyingly maudlin and warmhearted that heatstroke is possible just from watching. 'The Sopranos' at 20: Read our original review of the HBO drama 1999-01-08T05:00:00Z The episode, he wrote, "built to a well-constructed climax" that made up for what had hitherto been "a slow, maudlin affair". The winners and Luthers of New Year's TV 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Speculation that her new music might be maudlin by the weight of what it had to acknowledge proved misplaced. Ariana Grande: a beacon of resilience in her worst and biggest year 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z He paused for a moment, parsing the word “mourn,” wondering if it sounded too maudlin for a player who won’t return for six-to-eight months after breaking the fibula and tibia in his lower right leg. With Alex Smith out and Dallas on deck, Redskins try their best to move on 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Fortunately, the maudlin moments are offset by fine performances, flashes of humor and a visual sense that’s more astute than the script. Review | Rupert Everett transforms into Oscar Wilde in this sentimental portrait of the famed Irish wit 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “That's really what's going to be a celebration of life… It’s not going to be maudlin, it's going to be joyful.” Aretha Franklin honored with star-studded tribute at the 2018 American Music Awards 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z By turns angry, righteous, weepy and maudlin, the nominee at points seemed close to giving up his quest to sit on the highest court of the land. Behind Kavanaugh fight, a national struggle over trust, identity and sex roles 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Clearly she means well, they expressed in maudlin tones, but is simply unaware that she is being controlled by the almighty powers of the shadowy Democratic conspiracy. Brett Kavanaugh’s best defense: Loud shouting and conspiracy theories 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Trump lacks Nixon's sometimes maudlin sentimentality and Nixon didn't manifest the grandiose self-regard that Trump uses to mask his insecurities. Donald Trump’s lack of normal human empathy is more than disturbing — it’s dangerous 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z While they talked and planned, I cooked and drank wine and grew maudlin. Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The tone of each is wildly different, jumping from epic medieval fantasy to maudlin domestic melodrama to superhero adventure. Review: From dinosaurs to courtroom drama, overstuffed Korean epic ‘Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days’ entertains 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The cellist lays the vibrato on thick, and the effect proves maudlin. Music goes multimedia, but why? Three concerts point the way 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Most of its productions are soap operas with gaudy costumes and maudlin dialogue. China’s largest movie studio is vast, and so is its audience. But filmmakers have to toe the party line 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z And that quartet of screenwriters can’t seem to write their way out of a scene without resorting to unbelievable coincidence or maudlin sentimentality. ‘The Leisure Seeker’ takes a pleasant premise and squishes it in its heavy hands 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Maybe some of my students found it sappy or maudlin, that sense of belonging, but my heart swelled righteously against their imagined accusations. Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But the film doesn’t convey the privation that haunts Walls’ book, and turns an unsentimental account of growing up poor into a maudlin movie about father-daughter relationships. Where all the films about poor Americans? | Stephen Pimpare 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Under the maudlin fluorescent lights, big business personalities tussle for power during a meeting about an electronic product placement deal, resulting in tragedy and triumph. Karan Kendrick stands out in conference-call drama 'Broken Ceiling' 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The Daily Mail is similarly maudlin about the state of affairs, with its headline, "End of home owning dream". News Daily: Your morning briefing 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z She recognized a stark pattern: She felt happy and lucid after her first and second drinks, but sloppy and maudlin after her third and fourth. Opinion | America, Can We Talk About Your Drinking? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “When you’re dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part,” his voice crooned through a smartphone and speakers, decorating the lockers in maudlin. Season is spiraling out of control for the Dodgers 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z So it was almost like she was — maybe it’s a bit maudlin and melodramatic — but I was thinking that she was sort of teaching her or addressing her in some sort of maternal way. null 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z No. Still, both Bournemouth and Manchester City will be desperate to claim all three points at lunchtime on Saturday, otherwise the mood music surrounding two clubs with wildly differing agendas may turn a little maudlin. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In a maudlin final act, Rex falls ill, and Jeannette must decide whether to reconcile with him. “The Glass Castle” deals in the contradictions of human nature 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But such moments of visual beauty only call attention to the stilted dialogue and maudlin plot that otherwise define the film. Review | ‘From the Land of the Moon’: Cotillard emotes, but about what, exactly? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In lesser hands, such a platitude would likely land with a maudlin thud. Review | ‘Endless Poetry’: Alejandro Jodorowsky, in dialogue with himself 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z "We weren't going to do solemnity. We weren't going to do maudlin sincerity," Miller recalls. Samantha Bee goes 'Full Frontal' on the Trump administration 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z "But the far-right don't care for him - they find his protection of his wife to be maudlin." Naruhito: Will Japan's crown prince be a 'fresh breeze' for the monarchy? - BBC News 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Thone, as the grieving mother, refuses to be maudlin — if the killer’s blood is ice water under a crust of blood, hers is simmering lava under a crust of ice. Review: ArtsWest’s ‘Frozen’ and its psychologically icebound world of a killer 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z She wrote: "Its tone is uniformly lugubrious and maudlin, and Hawkins' characters seldom rise to the level of two dimensions, let alone three." Paula Hawkins' new novel Into The Water confuses critics - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith-affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin. 'The Case for Christ' prioritizes drama over evidence 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Well, they get better as they go along, the sing-songy ditties of the first act giving way to maudlin — but more substantial — ballads in the second. Review: Village musical proposes a new social order that isn’t really new 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z After the death of George VI, in a society much more Christian and deferential than this one, a Mass Observation survey showed that people objected to the endless maudlin music, the forelock-tugging coverage. Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z She demonstrates excellent timing and perfect control over the complicated narrative and never allows it to drift toward maudlin. ‘I Liked My Life’ an impressive debut by Abby Fabiaschi 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Stripped down to a lean 90-minute running time but otherwise faithful to its source material, it exposes the maudlin excess inherent to this tale of female friendship, terminal illness and prime waterfront real estate. 'Beaches' is a misguided remake of the classic weepie on Lifetime 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z He was also depressive, maudlin, sentimental and he drank like a fish. John Lithgow and Claire Foy share the love as two of Britain's most powerful figures in 'The Crown' 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “Why Him?” ends on a folksy note, in a maudlin affirmation of family values that is both strange and strangely unsatisfying, given the film’s previous violations of good taste. ‘Why Him?’ celebrates family values while simultaneously trashing them 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z In “By Women Possessed” we find O’Neill bedeviled by his morphine-riddled mother, Ella, and bedeviling his own wives and lovers as a maudlin and violent drunk. Eugene O’Neill and his combative, drunken relationships with women 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z A sitcom about a family whose oldest son has cerebral palsy could fall into any number of maudlin traps. Will these four new TV shows be hits with Golden Globes voters too? 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z And there’s plenty about Cohen, the poet turned novelist turned unlikely heartthrob, that suggests he might’ve been embarrassed by the increasingly maudlin treatment that “Hallelujah” received. What did Leonard Cohen really mean when he sang 'Hallelujah'? 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The collection never falls into the gratuitously maudlin or morbid. This is the end: undertaking a journey to beat the fear of death 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z As dust settles on the Rosetta craft – assuming the landing goes to plan – mission scientists are holding a celebratory barbecue to avoid things getting too maudlin. Rosetta probe set to collide with comet 67P as 12-year mission comes to an end 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z What starts off with quirky promise soon falls into a maudlin, blandly predictable rut with a heavy reliance on voice-overs, but those aren’t the film’s biggest issues. Eddie Murphy brings the drama in predictable 'Mr. Church' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Times, Gary Goldstein didn’t quite see things the same way, finding the film to be “such a maudlin, ham-fisted dud, it deserves little more than footnote status.” Indie Focus: Getting wild with Toronto, Jerry Lewis and 'White Girl' 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The specificity of his characters raises the film above the maudlin notes of a movie of the week. ‘Other People’: A ‘parent with cancer’ dramedy that rises above the maudlin 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the movie, written and directed by Daniel Noah, is such a maudlin, ham-fisted dud, it deserves little more than footnote status. Nothing in the woeful drama 'Max Rose' will make the Jerry Lewis career-highlight reel 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But nothing prepared us for the maudlin muddle that is his new mystery drama, “The Sea of Trees,” which landed with a thud at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. ‘The Sea of Trees’: a tangled mess from Gus Van Sant 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But she will intrepidly attack any aria, scale its altitudes in great swoops and hoots, assay its descending trills with the vigor of a maudlin cuckoo.” What It Was Like to Hear the Real Florence Foster Jenkins Sing, as Told in 1934 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The thin plot is more than a bit maudlin. Review: Accessorized in the Outback in ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ on Long Island 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The result was that I erased many happy memories of my wife in order not to become maudlin, self-pitying and useless to my children. Bereavement: How do you help a child cope? - BBC News 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z On a daily basis, voters are now subjected to maudlin reminiscence for the bygone days of manufacturing employment. The party of myth and nostalgia: The GOP jobs narrative is hopelessly stuck in the past 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z It has become nearly impossible to travel anywhere in the United States, or go a few days, without hearing maudlin amplification of tributes to the “heroes” of the American military. Military violence and scandal: We need a public discussion of the sexual assault epidemic in our armed forces 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Some writers, in their desire to play dress-up as Woody Guthrie, have taken to writing maudlin essays on the victimhood and pitiable state of Trump fans. We must shame dumb Trump fans: The white working class are not victims 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z As you listen to his maudlin story of a young boy who grows up hungry, turns to crime and ends up dead, you absorb both liberal and conservative explanations for the tragedy. Evolution of a place called the ghetto 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “Sold” is maudlin in a way that makes its audience, paradoxically, feel good, albeit superficially. ‘Sold’ raises awareness about sex slavery, when it should aim higher 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Every new note is blown up and made bright, but the performance never tips over into maudlin territory. Gallant and dvsn's debut albums are two wildly different takes on alt-R&B 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But there’s no need for maudlin goodbyes just yet. 'American Idol' recap: Now it's down to three 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It arrives in an especially unguarded exchange with Malony, who's astute enough to recognize their similarities — which the screenplay indicates without indulging in maudlin back story. 'Standing Tall' really does in its take on France's juvenile justice system 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Many will find it a hard story to digest, although this is not a maudlin account. A family secret that leads to revelations of racial brutality 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z He had been the Commodores’ resident softy, the maudlin voice of “Three Times a Lady,” almost too genteel for the band’s tame brand of funk-soul. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The Greens say they have been accused of self-indulgence, or being morbid or maudlin. That Dragon, Cancer: Coping with a son's diagnosis through a video game - BBC News 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Sure, it was maudlin and cliched, but it was familiar, a fixed point over many years of visiting the gallery. An eye-catching menorah brings a smile for the Festival of Light 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Dayal said, however, that for overseas Indian audiences, descriptions of a film being conformist or maudlin are meaningless. 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo' shows how Bollywood films can make a mark at U.S. box offices 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z His defiance of the political establishment, maudlin as it was, saved his place on the Republican national ticket. The reality TV show Trump is producing before our eyes 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The main problem with Sgt Pepper is Sir Paul’s maudlin obsession with his own self-importance and Dickensian misery. Pepper pot shots: which classic albums do you love to hate? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But the maudlin reflections on his mortality are leavened by jokes. Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Then he turned maudlin as he fiddled with a set of keys tied to his waist. China Fences In Its Nomads, and an Ancient Life Withers 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Frank respected her compassion but considered her Dust Bowl pictures maudlin — triumphalist takes on adversity. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Or maudlin and depressing like the film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. 'Inside Out' Is Something Truly Special, Even For Pixar 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter slammed it as "woefully sentimental and maudlin." CANNES WATCH: McConaughey, Van Sant film greeted harshly 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z But the maudlin reflections on his mortality are leavened by jokes. Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z And the bits that were there—Eddie breaking it off with Iris—weren’t dragged out or maudlin. 'The Flash' Season 1, Episode 22 Review: 'Rogue Air' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Mother Lillian managed to keep it all together, with good humor and warmth, and the book manages to stay away from the maudlin. These Are 30 of the Best Parents in Literature 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Despite the dark subject matter, and the dramatic veils and headgear, the clothes didn't feel maudlin. New York Fashion Week 2015: Fearless fashion flyers Thom Browne and Rosie Assoulin 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z You would say that’s maudlin and trite, but it actually happens. Jonathan Banks on reprising his ‘Breaking Bad’ role in ‘Better Call Saul’: ‘You’re going to learn a lot about Mike’ (Q&A) 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z There’s no doubt that Aniston deserves more roles like this one but, with luck, in less maudlin, more surprising movies. A spiky, dressed-down Jennifer Aniston enlivens the otherwise drab, dry recovery drama ‘Cake.’ 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Please spare us any more maudlin letters from the McDonnell children regarding their father’s culpability — or lack thereof, according to two daughters. - The Washington Post 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Make your points, editors, but save the maudlin sympathy. Dark Again After Report on C.I.A. Torture 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Bletchley itself was originally an over-the-top Victorian pile, once described as “maudlin and monstrous”, centre of the social life of its financier owner. 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers Even in the film’s most sentimental, maudlin and conveniently extreme moments, Duvall dominates “The Judge,” much like his character dominates his own courtroom: through sheer force of presence, integrity and implacable authority. ‘The Judge’ movie review: Not even Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. can save this baggy courtroom drama “The maudlin delight that the new royal baby in England was male is sickening,” she continued. The new royal baby will be descended from Count Dracula. (Really!) 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But Momo’s arguments and nominal adventures with her annoying otherworldly cohorts quickly pall before giving way to a maudlin, mewling sentimentalism. ‘A Letter to Momo’ movie review: Lyrical, delicate, but fatally glum In keeping with the indulgent mood, the filmmaker infuses the proceedings with infectiously breezy pacing even when the subjects at hand turn toward the maudlin. ‘The Trip to Italy’ movie review: A mobile feast of food, wine and improv Essentially a description of grinding poverty and social isolation, Coat of Many Colors could easily come off as maudlin. Dolly Parton: 10 of the best 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z She wasn't a gracious silence, she wasn't suppressible by social convention, and her court-ordered public repentance at Paul's Cross was only tearful because she was maudlin drunk at the time. The female leads who cut a swathe through the centuries 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z The memories are ecstatic and bittersweet, mundane and maudlin. Show seeks the secret of happiness 2014-03-06T02:21:38Z Laughter filled the pews, but the night soon threatened to turn maudlin. Smile! One of You Will Be the Next Mayor of New York 2013-07-25T15:17:11Z The decency of others is portrayed without being maudlin or self-congratulatory. In-Box: Letters to the Sports Editor 2013-07-13T18:27:29Z One friend after another offered toasts, a genre that often runs to the maudlin and the generic. DealBook: What I Learned From My Daughter’s Wedding 2013-06-28T22:58:46Z “Country and western music is, by turns, simplistic, bigoted, emotional, maudlin, jingoistic, provincial and dominated by male chauvinism,” he wrote in that 1974 article, titled “Country & Western: Some New-Fangled Ideas.” Chet Flippo, Journalist Who Championed Country Music, Dies at 69 2013-06-23T22:05:10Z If my posts ever wavered or descended into cloyingly sentimental musings stewing in their own maudlin gunk, that’s why, and I apologize for not being more candid. The Choice Blog: The Next Kevin Brownlow Drafts Her Summer Plans 2013-05-28T10:01:01Z There are other reasons, too, that make start-up folk attracted to Ultimate, and the analogies--though admittedly maudlin--are clear. A Love Story: Start-ups & Ultimate Frisbee 2012-07-20T20:23:22Z The tone is intentionally simplistic, funny, completely averse to the maudlin, despite the grim shadow cast over the book: the impending death of the slow-witted Mammoths' catcher Bruce Pearson from Hodgkin's disease. City Room: Big City Book Club Tonight Discusses 'Bang the Drum Slowly' 2012-06-27T17:46:25Z That old rivalry has got rather maudlin recently. Pass notes No 3,188: Sony 2012-06-05T19:00:03Z These letters of hers to her deserter would have moved an equestrian statute to maudlin tears. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z She feels both the pathos and the humour of the beginnings of our life, and she makes infancy welcome in art because she understands it and shows no maudlin sentiment. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z While some sat apart, wailing and moaning in maudlin drunkenness, others were maddened to the ferocity of wild beasts. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This silence was accentuated by the preceding noise, as though the singers had checked their maudlin song in mid-career. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z As he proceeded he worked himself up to a tone of maudlin solemnity. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z And they deliberately take from poetry its characteristics of rhyme and rhythm and apply the name poetry to little chunks of maudlin prose. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z He is never jovial in his cups, and maudlin sorrow or maniacal rage is the sole result of his potations. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Captain Dove interposed, with maudlin pathos, his evident intention to see whether he could not even yet make terms of some sort for himself with the young American knocked on the head. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z His father shifted his feet, and licking his lips nervously, looked at him in maudlin shame; then from him to the sideboard, in search of his supporter under all trials. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z He was a marvel of reeling stupidity, offensive hiccoughs, and maudlin insolence. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z A man who, too thirsty, babbles in his cups, is provoking; but when he becomes maudlin and is scarcely ever sober, he is a grievous trial to his comrades. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Soon he would drop into a maudlin sleep, and his master might, unheedful of the monotonous and confused proceedings, take refuge from this mockery within himself until the verdict came. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He could only shed maudlin tears and wish her well through her misery. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z It was wholly illogical, not to say maudlin. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Farther on a burly Englishman, who had evidently laid in alcoholic refreshment farther back down the line, was crooning a maudlin song. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z It's sentiment run to seed, and sentiment of the most maudlin kind, at that. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Acting on the impulse, Shane, with maudlin tears, swore his dear friend to solemn secrecy, and amidst a coruscation of cries and curses, blurted out the story which we wot of. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Such incidents seem to argue a genuine vein of fellow feeling, of sympathy, for the Dog, though, I must insist, this sympathy never degenerates into a maudlin sentimentality. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Old Jason was drunk and ineffective, and lest in his maudlin condition he might wander out and disturb the equilibrium of their plans, the clan had disarmed him. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The episode probably furnished matter for his brother's maudlin ravings at Utrecht, but we do not think that it materially influenced the opinions of his nephew. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The woman at the table wakes out of her stupor, gazes around her, and bursts into a fit of maudlin weeping. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z As the boat reached the shore, the chief, with the vacant stare of a drunkard, arose and reeled toward him and welcomed him in a friendly, though maudlin manner. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z An actress was placed upon a throne within the sanctuary of that ancient temple, and received amidst the hymns and maudlin praises of the multitude the adoration of a fallen nation. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z I get cross-eyed yet every time I think about it and I talk really maudlin. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z At the disheveled tables disheveled couples were engaged in dalliance more or less maudlin. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Other people, no doubt, will find it disgustingly maudlin. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Mr. Lovely Senior appeared again, maudlin and quarrelsome. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z “Going on your honeymoon,” he murmured, growing maudlin over his wine. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z A more maudlin spectacle could not be imagined. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z It contrasts favourably with Ibsen's harsh bitterness, with Gorky's maudlin dreariness, and with the hysterical outbursts of pessimism from the manikins who try to see life from the mighty shoulders of Schopenhauer. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z It had that very element of the sordid which had held him aloof from the student excursions from Cambridge into Boston—excursions so apt to end in brawls, drunken clamour, tears, and maudlin reconciliations. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z It was just the maudlin mood that had prompted his father to be so ridiculous, and talk about resolutions. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z The sight of this popular joyfulness enraptured the moderate and sincere Republicans, and made them almost maudlin. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z It ran in my head, and my nice fire pictures were filled with the maudlin trash. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Recovering from his maudlin state he found himself in custody. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The drunken klooch rose to her knees, and with a maudlin giggle, seized Brent's half empty glass and drained it. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z I have not, as you somewhat broadly insinuate, been prigging bits of your matchless rhetoric in order to give currency and flavour to my own more maudlin articles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Brooke had already found his host's maudlin moralizings becoming monotonous, but he also felt in a half-contemptuous fashion sorry for the man. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z But ten minutes with Mercedes had proved his undoing: the bird was positively maudlin. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Much maudlin nonsense has been written about the governmental treatment of the Indians, especially as regards taking their land. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z The shaking was redoubled, and Brent blinked stupidly, and feigned maudlin anger as the Indian slapped him with the flat of his hand, first on one cheek and then on the other. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z So maudlin was her maternal sensibility, that she never spoke of her sons without tears, which were always responded to by the infants themselves, with sympathetic, but uncomfortable, moisture. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z It was too deep to be maudlin or tinged with self-commiseration now. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z On the eve of his departure he was treated by his friends till he grew almost maudlin. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z We might certainly look for a few better speeches than Lord Londonderry made; for his were, indeed, but poor maudlin affairs. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Blast you, I believe it was some woman," she heard Masters say in a maudlin tone, "and that's why you are so anxious to hurry us away. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z We escape at once the peril of maudlin sentimentality and metaphysical abstraction, by speaking of the sentiment in the practical fruits, which best show its nature. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z I have some courage and I'm not asking sympathy in any weak or maudlin way. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z He detested the florid sentimentality of some other universities, the maudlin old grads singing of bright college years! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Copeland, weak of body and fogged of mind, was now close to maudlin tears. Comet's Burial 2011-09-19T02:00:15.417Z He had been drinking too, and took more and more as the night wore on, and became maudlin in his talk. Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains 2011-09-15T02:00:11.393Z I am fond of animals, yet not maudlinly so. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z "Here, here, that won't do," cried Burke, all the maudlin softness out of his face, as he marched upon the group. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z It may have been that he pictured him in advance as habitually maudlin, or sodden or morose. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Its divine revelations are about on a level with the maudlin platitudes uttered through the lips of spiritist trance mediums. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z Yet there is a good bracing air of the Highlands in parts of it, and an ebullient martial din of broadswords and of gathering clans which go far to redeem its maudlin sentiment. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z No English writer better pays the debt of gratitude always owing to great poets, painters, and authors than Hazlitt; but his is a manly, not a maudlin, gratitude. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Then he smiled in maudlin fashion and altered his tone. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z “We can’t be maudlin about this,” said Sister Mary Jean, 73, who still presides over the company’s board. Nuns, a ?Dying Breed,? Fade From Leadership Roles at Catholic Hospitals 2011-08-20T22:39:20Z But there are also moments far from Mr. Zhao’s rigorous aesthetic — interviews with celebrity actors, for example, and the use of maudlin music. Culture and Control: Chinese Director?s Path From Rebel to Insider 2011-08-14T00:24:59Z I have no patience with the maudlin nonsense that prevails in this country, that a criminal should have every chance of escape. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z “Give us a song of your own, Nellie!” added one burly miner, swaying from his seat toward her, a maudlin smile on his face. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z This tea is positively going to your heads and making you maudlin. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Mr. Waring was in his most maudlin mood of familiarity, Valentine in his most insolent humor. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z "Is, then, your good mother too far gone in this maudlin delirium to listen to him?" said the major in an accent of deep concern. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z You don’t want any maudlin show of it. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Opposite me was a picture indeed; a respectable-looking man had drunk himself into a maudlin state, from which his friends were in vain endeavouring to arouse him. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Next morning about eight o'clock the revellers returned, all except Joe in a bedraggled, maudlin condition that told eloquently of their enjoyment. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z And the speaker’s thoughts reverted to another sort of parent, abusive or maudlin, red-faced, and semi or wholly intoxicated. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Rendered incautious in his maudlin state, he had recklessly exposed himself. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z This is important because, during that long and maudlin ceremony, I started daydreaming. My latest 'graduation' (aka the Grand Re-brand) 2011-06-23T15:00:09Z And in the same way there has been much maudlin sentimentality wasted on sexual perverts, as if most of these men could not avoid the actions that the rest of humanity abominates. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z With maudlin tears he assured me that he was the chief mate of the Sea Gem, and that he must get on board that day, but how he did not know. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Had the author of Hyperion nothing but maudlin sensibility? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Franz utters a half maudlin laugh, and turns to the old woman. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z The effect of excessive stimulation on passionate natures like Victor's is to render them either maudlin or affectionate. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z A source of glorification, rather, it should be, that no maudlin pity for a woman had been suffered to intercept the death-stroke of a righteous vengeance. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z In maudlin spite let Thracians fight Above their bowls of liquor, But such as we, when on a spree, Should never bawl and bicker! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z Vigneau took it again, and looked into it for a moment with maudlin pensiveness, as though he could scarcely realise that it was really the bottom he gazed at. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z They hear the fragment of an idiotic street song, trolled out in a maudlin voice, and then feet running, skipping, seeming now and then to prance and pirouette absurdly. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Himself a former cowboy, he writes cowboy stories which prove that cowboy stories need not be as false, and as maudlinly romantic as most cowboy stories manage to be. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z "You've ruined my life," and he sat heavily in a chair, being now in the maudlin stage. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Not to lament that rival flame Wherewith the heartless Glycera scorns you, Nor waste your time in maudlin rhyme, How many a modern instance warns you. Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z I picked myself up and stood before him, a swaying, blinking maudlin figure. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Before the first leg of 's Champions League quarter-final with he was in the mood for a little homily that verged on the maudlin when asked about his opposite number, . Jos? Mourinho's warm words cannot disguise Real Madrid's hunger 2011-04-04T21:09:52Z The duet that follows between Demetrius and Hermia is by Bishop, and the words are by Anon.; it is a maudlin piece of work, words and music admirably fitted. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Those traitors, too, the Hungarians, have broken every promise, to shout Vivat! to that woman; because she shed before them a few maudlin tears. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Accordingly, he went into the hall, and soon Mrs. Sanford heard him dragging a maudlin drunken fellow downstairs. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Is it a time, do you think, for scruples or for maudlin sentiment? Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z This and New England rum were the ordinary tipple of the multitude, and the prolific source of hilarity, maudlin gabble, and bickerings at bees, June trainings, and town meetings. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Such deeds are not means to anything except the establishment of the reign of hell on earth, and the maudlin adoration sometimes accorded their doers is evidence of an unbalanced moral sense. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Inconceivable as it may seem, this ignorant and maudlin talk was listened to seriously and even respectfully, and he sold a lot of his medicines. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z From a distance came the sound of a coarse voice singing in maudlin tones a tuneless song. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z When does this noble frenzy exhibit itself in such maudlin transports, and with a self-sacrifice so idolatrously suicidal, as in the old? The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z When I think of it I grow maudlin at the thought of the good there is in every one. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Why, on the last occasion I was in a church I heard these words: 'The sentiment which sorrows over what God reveals as His will is simply maudlin. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z It's you who make them complex by being maudlin about this man. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Everyone would jump into the bleachers just to be featured in that unabashedly maudlin song at the end of the championship game. Seattle U. provides one shining example of college hoops virtue 2011-02-22T01:06:28Z The maudlin gravity with which that worthy bore himself, combined with a remarkable bulging about the pockets, made him a very comic figure, and raised a smile even on Muriel's face. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke. Mary Gaitskill: “The Other Place.” 2011-02-07T05:00:00Z Twenty minutes later, in maudlin confidence, he was relating to Ben Aimes how two miners of his acquaintance had driven several hundred miles in deadly fear of being hoisted by dynamite at every jolt. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Belinda sprang to her feet, hurled a remark that sounded like "maudlin idiot" at a dishevelled vision in the mirror, picked up the lamp, and went down to the gymnasium on the second floor. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z It then settled into its dull diapason of maudlin voices. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z This is simply Dickens both in manner and substance, and the tone of the whole passage is insincere and exaggerated, almost maudlin. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But though the Jews are on the throne and Xerxes maudlin full, Ahafid once more tunes his lyre and bellows like a bull. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z They walked out, the captain holding an arm of each of his dear young friends, and in a maudlin state of contentment. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z |
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