| The priest comes along dandling his charge as if it were a lachrymose infant he was endeavouring to put into a good humour. |
| On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose. |
| The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo. |
| Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief. |
| The Stalinist counter-revolution replaced class solidarity against national oppression by lachrymose bourgeois charity toward the unfortunate. |
| She had, I fancy, expected to find her in a lachrymose state. |
