maudlin

Example Sentences

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Ms. Schilinski roams in and out of all the impressions and recollections, most of them stained by sadness and regret, without turning maudlin or melodramatic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Lyrical but not maudlin, the book navigates family disagreements, competing philosophies and different ways the human spirit can manifest in the human body.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

If he did, the film would get maudlin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

And their “don’t waste a second of life” attitude never feels maudlin.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller