How To Use lachrymose In A Sentence
- Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.
- Other types of literature, "theoretical, self-referential, lachrymosely autobiographical", are acknowledged to exist, "but they were just dry wanks". Top stories from Times Online
- On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose.
- He was not only kind-hearted, but very tender-hearted, so that his lips would quiver on occasions and his eyes fill with tears, -- what doctors improperly call a lachrymose nature; but in regard to a question of principle or public necessity he was as firm as Plymouth Rock. Cambridge Sketches
- Where else can you hear a show lachrymosely titled ‘The Saddest Music in the World’?
- Every scene was like a chugger begging you for lachrymose donations. Times, Sunday Times
- The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo.
- A bar in which one may engage in such pleasant diversions as drinking beer or wine, bantering lightly or commiserating lachrymosely with friends is only a bar.
- Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
- You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite. The Good Soldier
