Maudlin

Does it bother you that there’s also a maudlin aspect?

It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there.

The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin .

It’s an interesting dynamic which I’d like to explore further when Alex isn’t so emotional and evenmaudlin .

Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits.

I really don’t understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events.

He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’

He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin , self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.

I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia.

Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlinsentimentality.

I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism.

You can get as maudlin , dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out.

Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes.

The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin .

She didn’t say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments.

Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin .

I don’t want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental.

Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin , self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day.

The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.