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What is a tearjerker?

What is a tearjerker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (informal) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, real-life story, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance.
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Kinart put it into words, 'A single theme can become a tearjerker in one poem and something truly emotional, universal or poetic in the other.
The unsubtle way that this obvious tearjerker attempts to align us against the corporation is almost unbearable.
The author recounts this moving affair, which is a true tearjerker, in a new way.
For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept.
It really is a splendid tearjerker, though some may find it a wee bit like watching paint dry.
If my work is misinterpreted because it's not a sappy tearjerker, sorry I'm not sorry.

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