| Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes. |
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| It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin. |
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| He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. |
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| Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits. |
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| He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories. |
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| She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments. |
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| What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker. |
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| I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their fifteen song-and-dance numbers. |
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| She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin. |
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| I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events. |
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| Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality. |
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| Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin. |
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| Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor. |
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| They had one crude but catchy hit followed by a maudlin and sappy second single. |
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| Initially, the tribal percussion and sometimes maudlin tone may not sit well. |
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| It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way. |
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| His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers. |
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| I nodded, smiling now at the cheesiness of the moment, particularly as a maudlin pop song came on the jukebox. |
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| This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty. |
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| Alexei Sayle would adopt a maudlin, nostalgic whine and a watery half-smile as he recalled the glories of the music hall. |
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| But no matter how you feel about their all-conquering brand of maudlin songcraft, Travis haven't changed. |
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| In many ways, the two incumbents are past their sell-by dates, preserved as majors not by reality, but by tradition and maudlin sentimentality. |
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| Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel. |
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| Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure. |
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| Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin. |
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| Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing. |
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| The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin. |
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| The Anzac soldier is cast as martyr, but at no point does the commentary become maudlin. |
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| But what follows is not a maudlin melodrama, no matter what conclusions you may draw from that surely unimpressive premise. |
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| 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. |
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| It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour. |
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| The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent. |
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| His sometimes maudlin self-involvement when a woman left him rarely involved any kind of development or growth. |
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| No Earthly Man's worthy wallow would try the patience of even the most maudlin listener. |
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| British winner The Phone Call is a maudlin, actorly exercise that does at least showcase typically astute, empathic emoting by Sally Hawkins. |
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| Interpretations of what this actually means will vary, but it is certainly more maudlin – schmaltzy even – than it is funny. |
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| Sometimes confident, sometimes wary, sometimes maudlin and resigned, she actually has good reason to fear the Felsteads. |
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| Some of the maudlin rubbish in the popular songs of the day still survive to add their melancholic sloppiness to the supply produced today, which is more than sufficient. |
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| In another series, drafting a fantasy football team by the side of a fallen comrade could be sentimental, even borderline maudlin. |
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| Williams interviewed and profiled four D-day veterans, showing his sensitive side without ever seeming maudlin. |
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| Whenever the script seems ready to surrender to maudlin excess, gosling and McAdams are there to pull it back. |
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| I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism. |
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| It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there. |
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| I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental. |
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| Still, it's otherwise a very observant film, only rarely maudlin. |
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| Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair. |
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| There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied. |
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| I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia. |
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| The film became too maudlin for its own good in its final moments. |
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| Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film. |
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| When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel? |
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| This is a book that cries out like one of his maudlin ditties to be edited. |
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| How can you write about that earlier self without being either patronizing or maudlin? |
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| At least I was not firing off maudlin emails to any exes out there. |
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| Also, beyond incompetence, he was meant to be weak, vain and maudlin. |
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| But this is an obsessiveness that is neither maudlin nor careworn, always painting away cheerfully, even effusively, against the vast majority of the art world. |
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| He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication. |
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| Think back to what was made by William Holman Hunt in 1851: The Light of the World, in which a maudlin Victorian Jesus knocks on the door, lantern in hand, pious gaze looking beseechingly back at us, waiting to be admitted. |
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| Until recently the two clear frontrunners in the race to replace Mr Miliband were Andy Burnham, the maudlin tribune of the party's soft left, and Yvette Cooper, a machine politician and the most experienced of the crowd. |
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| Brown captures the isolating netherworld of loss and grief, but Happier Endings is anything but maudlin. |
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| Funerals crop up quite a bit in Liz's rather melancholy output, and although she is inspired by the maudlin, she serves her songs with a big smattering of gallows humour. |
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| Scruffy has died after a tumultuous life and rather than getting all maudlin about it, I'd prefer to remember him as the hardest-working dog we've ever had. |
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| Unlike most Victorian domestic balladeers Wallace wasn't always maudlin. |
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