lachrymose

Several days after this lachrymose dinner, a carnival-level event delighted Angelenos of either political persuasion.

Chappell is actually the alter-ego of the much quieter and self-effacing Kayleigh Amstuzt, whose fragile heart is exposed on lachrymose ballads like Kaleidoscope and California.

And all of this is somehow glommed on to the lachrymose story of a grieving parent and a dying world.

“He had this drawing that, without calling attention to itself, without being lachrymose, but with a set of Boothisms that the reader understood, just moved me. So that, I could do,” Remnick adds.

In 1912, Edith Maida Lessing wrote the lyrics to a lachrymose ballad about the sinking of the Titanic.