Maudlin in a sentence

Readers may have been surprised to see Tomine turn toward such a maudlin vision of representation, after avoiding it for so long.

Simon was interviewing a colleague who’s written a maudlin book about her son leaving high school (no mention of dad, unsurprisingly) as if she’s the only person in the world who has felt parental pangs at a child leaving the nest.

If this all sounds a little maudlin, maybe it’s a slip on my part, willingly exposing my occasional sentimental nature.

In my more maudlin hours, I have even been known to feel a little sorry for them.

It doesn’t have to be maudlin or melodramatic but see if you can find the words to tell them how valuable their friendship has been, how they’ve impacted your life and how grateful you are to know them.

Did I laugh derisively at many scenes, including the maudlin ending?

Do we need to hear Oswalt end yet another episode with a maudlin, “That’s the thing about family …”?

I had that freedom to be creative and freak out and throw crazy parties that are illegal and write maudlin songs about shooting up and having sex and listening to on acid.

Late in “Black Is King” comes a maudlin apotheosis: The Simba stand-in, sporting a leopard-print dinner jacket, arises to heaven inside Johannesburg’s apartheid-era Ponte Tower.

I don't want it to be a maudlin one-man-show, but I want to be able to go inward while still delivering the show my fans have come to expect.

Pitfalls of maudlin cliché surround the subject, but Mr. Roberts has skirted them, above all through his bold choice of music.

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Bed death, money issues, booze – the issues stack up, but the song never gets maudlin thanks to its simple syncopated guitar line keeping it up in the air.

Even Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland can't save a movie written by a quartet of screenwriters who can't seem to write their way out of a scene without resorting to unbelievable coincidence or maudlin sentimentality.

Nevertheless, we are stuck with Dickens’ writing process, and given maudlin flashbacks to his own childhood, and we see why Dickens was so in tune to the plight of the poor, little urchins and whatnot.

The novel also taps into the fierceness and passion of first love with usually elegant though sometimes maudlin and uneven writing.

Ben lip-syncs a performance of Roy Orbison 's " In Dreams ", sending Frank into maudlin sadness, then rage.

Joshi argues that King's best-known works (his supernatural novels), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings.

With the album, Waits asserted that he "tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have.