as in sentimental
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
a maudlin movie about a lovable tramp
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The messy pace — alternately defiant, maudlin, weepy and bombastic — sounds like a country that was working things out within itself but nevertheless remained optimistic and confident about its future.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Without ever becoming maudlin or didactic, Glück traces both an epoch and an act of commemorating the dead.
—Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
But longtime fans worried about the Atlanta rapper veering into maudlin self-aggrandizement shouldn’t worry.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
But that sentiment serves instead to highlight how this maudlin Japanese drama about a gay man in his 30s coping with love and loss, rarely moves beyond the readymade platitudes that litter its well-meaning narrative.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Without ever becoming maudlin or didactic, Glück traces both an epoch and an act of commemorating the dead.
—Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
But longtime fans worried about the Atlanta rapper veering into maudlin self-aggrandizement shouldn’t worry.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
But that sentiment serves instead to highlight how this maudlin Japanese drama about a gay man in his 30s coping with love and loss, rarely moves beyond the readymade platitudes that litter its well-meaning narrative.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
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