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Example sentences for: maudlin

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As Begley loses his critical distance from Schmidt, the novel grows maudlin and bleary.
Alas, read as a novel, Binyamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is maudlin and obvious.
So before I wax too maudlin, let me just say, Jodi, that you've been a great morning pen pal.
"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.
In another McNally play-turned-film, the maudlin soap opera Love!