lachrymose

Example Sentences

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Many of her discs were recorded with modern organ, and a few compound what already seems a Hollywood weirdness with a lachrymose male chorus.

From The Wall Street Journal

In what should be a pivotal scene, “Hamnet” looks much more like a satire of lachrymose Oscar bait than a portrait of the real thing.

From Salon

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

From Washington Post

“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.

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times