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.