How To Use Lachrymose In A Sentence
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Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.
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Other types of literature, "theoretical, self-referential, lachrymosely autobiographical", are acknowledged to exist, "but they were just dry wanks".
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On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose.
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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
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Where else can you hear a show lachrymosely titled ‘The Saddest Music in the World’?
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Every scene was like a chugger begging you for lachrymose donations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo.
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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.
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Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
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You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
The Good Soldier
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Most of the novel is arrogant and a caricature, yet that's preferable to Mr. Pierre's lachrymose attempts to gin up sympathy for his maladroit hero: Gabriel thinks of his mother, What I wouldn't give to hug her now, that smiling, woolly person.
Art's Power to Humiliate and to Heal
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It's not every day that one gets to read the word lachrymose in a letter.
52449_CLARA
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You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
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I think Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which is an interesting combination.
FOXNews.com
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These are somber moments on a solemn quest, and the book, with its repeated explorations of solitude, grief, remembrance and loss is elegiac—lachrymose, even.
On Holy Ground
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Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel?
THE IRATE NATION
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Adderley watched them too with a kind of lachrymose interest.
God's Good Man
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He now almost disappears from the story, the rest of which relates, with lachrymose sentiment and many frissons of horror (including a hint of necrophilia), the misfortunes and eventual joys of young Melvil and Monimia.
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Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
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The manner in which the saga has been dealt with in France, by the media and also by political figures, really shines a light on what we already knew was there: unfettered sexism, said de Haas, one of several feminists to find her voice just as France's reaction to the Affaire DSK looked like settling into lachrymose tributes to an alleged attacker and scorn for an alleged victim.
How Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France's women
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He is also as tough as nails, whatever the lachrymose breakdown at the Braehead Arena on Sunday might have suggested, and his commitment in pursuing his aim of getting to the top in an era that entertains the two greatest players of all time, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, is total.
Andy Murray's tears shine a light on a misunderstood fighter | Kevin Mitchell
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Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
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He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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It's not every day that one gets to read the word lachrymose in a letter.
52449_CLARA
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I also noticed that as you were busy lachrymosely explaining how he had no choice but to be a bum who collects bottles for recycling, you found it much easier to be outraged than to in any way acknowledge my point.
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‘Surely,’ he wrote, ‘it is time to break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.’
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On such occasions the Beeb's presenters adopt the posture of a keening relative, waxing lachrymosely about the dead woman and her "devastated" relatives.
Undefined
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Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
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All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly.
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
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Eat, drink, and be merry," he counselled lachrymosely, "for to-morrow we may be married.
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