Примери за maudlin

• Given its diegetic context and its potentially maudlin terms, the vehemence of the chorus' expression struck us as noteworthy.

• The text, a curious amalgam of the beautiful and the maudlin, the vivid and the incomprehensible, offers us some possible meanings, but only some.

• It annoys me when sometimes it becomes a maudlin, if not aggressive, chauvinism.

• During the non-serving period the scene inside was more maudlin magnified.

• It was a compassionate speech, without being maudlin.

• I am perplexed and worried that there may be too much maudlin sentiment.

• In the most maudlin of words, almost in tears, he ended his peroration by saying that this country will survive.

• First, it makes many the songs maudlin and melodramatic, occasionally unbearable.

• The play could have been sentimental, even maudlin.

• The moment is transformed from maudlin to poignant.

• Reviews were universal in acclaim for the flying scenes but the mundane plot and maudlin characterizations were also noted.

• What had been fun and frothy turns irretrievably maudlin.

• It has a brand of caustic wit that somehow surmounts situations that are a blend of soap opera maudlin and ribald coarseness.

• He was an original composer, less maudlin, less cloyingly sentimental and less clich-ridden than his contemporaries.

• They are unromanticized and low-key performances that only rarely spill over into the maudlin and righteous.