maudlin
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Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
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
Thankfully, “We Live in Time” never becomes maudlin, but it also never generates much emotion other than disappointment and frustration.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024
Not wanting to be maudlin, Morrison sometimes comes off as shallow.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
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
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