lachrymose

And all of this is somehow glommed on to the lachrymose story of a grieving parent and a dying world.

“He had this drawing that, without calling attention to itself, without being lachrymose, but with a set of Boothisms that the reader understood, just moved me. So that, I could do,” Remnick adds.

Roberts’s lachrymose gay novel is nine years overdue in becoming a sensation here.

He has come out on the other side of two of the most painful, lachrymose years that any entrepreneur could imagine, with self-inflicted wounds and schadenfreude galore.

“I’ve noticed that the TV commercials have gone from lachrymose, piano-dribbling quarantine themes to something more open and optimistic,” writes Glenn Reynolds, founder of Instapundit, the political and culture news site.