Words similar to maudlin

Example sentences for: maudlin

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In another McNally play-turned-film, the maudlin soap opera Love!
Alas, read as a novel, Binyamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is maudlin and obvious.
"I like to put them on and think, 'You know, Momma looked through these,' " she tells the Globe . Apparently Bakker shares this maudlin optical fascination with Judge Judy Sheindlin, who (according to the Enquirer ) almost "burst into tears" and stopped production of her TV show when she misplaced her reading glasses, which once belonged to her beloved late father.
As Begley loses his critical distance from Schmidt, the novel grows maudlin and bleary.
Maudlin , for instance, comes from the name of Mary Magdalene, who in painted and sculpted form is typically shown weeping.