They are unromanticized and low-key performances that only rarely spill over into the maudlin and righteous.
He was an original composer, less maudlin, less cloyingly sentimental and less clich-ridden than his contemporaries.
It has a brand of caustic wit that somehow surmounts situations that are a blend of soap opera maudlin and ribald coarseness.
What had been fun and frothy turns irretrievably maudlin.
Reviews were universal in acclaim for the flying scenes but the mundane plot and maudlin characterizations were also noted.
The moment is transformed from maudlin to poignant.
The play could have been sentimental, even maudlin.
First, it makes many the songs maudlin and melodramatic, occasionally unbearable.
