maudlin in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

maudlin in the PONS Dictionary

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First, it makes many the songs maudlin and melodramatic, occasionally unbearable.
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And with that piece it was a willingness to be totally sincere and borderline maudlin but hopefully not.
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The moment is transformed from maudlin to poignant.
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But he chided the film for excessive sentimentality, saying it featured some most charming bits of fine motion-picture expression and some most maudlin gobs of cinematic goo.
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The play could have been sentimental, even maudlin.
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It veers wildly from poignant emotions to maudlin histrionics, often in the same song.
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Occasionally they can be maudlin -- mainly when the story turns to serious soul-searching during the second act -- but the overall tone is joyously playful.
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A twist near the end sends this contrived movie into a maudlin stratosphere from which it doesn't recover.
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But to be gallant towards an artist is precisely the highest degree of insolence, a maudlin impertinence and a disgusting kind of intrusiveness.
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He was an original composer, less maudlin, less cloyingly sentimental and less clich-ridden than his contemporaries.
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