Example sentences for: maudlin

How can you use “maudlin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "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.

  • Klepp, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani, after opening her review with an embarrassing parody of Hemingway's style, writes that "his angular language has turned maudlin and flabby."

  • Maudlin , for instance, comes from the name of Mary Magdalene, who in painted and sculpted form is typically shown weeping.

  • Alas, read as a novel, Binyamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is maudlin and obvious.

  • As Begley loses his critical distance from Schmidt, the novel grows maudlin and bleary.


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