maudlin

How To Use maudlin In A Sentence

• The film became too maudlin for its own good in its final moments.
• He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
• Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
• And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
• Initially, the tribal percussion and sometimes maudlin tone may not sit well.
• Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
• What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
• Maudlin, but trying not to show it, Patrick observes the rigmarole unfold as predicted. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
• Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing.
• The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.