maudlin
Example Sentences
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But Mr. Van Dyk’s approach is the opposite of maudlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
The book is not unnecessarily maudlin but rather sharply present, which is also simply an accurate descriptor for much of Smith’s life and work.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025
But the film eventually turns maudlin, going so far as to include a prolonged scene where Adam says goodbye to the memory of his parents in a restaurant they used to frequent as a family.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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