| 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 yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration. |
| What remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity. |
| He is the only one who has attempted the lachrymose, the sentimental novel. |
| Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief. |
