Maudlin Sentence Examples

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  • Getting all maudlin on this happy outing.

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  • You didn't invite me out here to listen to my maudlin rambling.

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  • But - I don't want to get too maudlin.

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  • It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.

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  • It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.

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  • In the early 1990s, it was easy for one to get rather maudlin about the new cars that were being introduced.

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  • This play maybe sad in tone, but is never maudlin or cynical.

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  • February 14, it would appear, is a day to be soppy, or maybe even maudlin.

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  • This may seem a little callous, but these whimsical remembrances of " Unc " have quickly become maudlin.

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  • No contemporary, unaided by personal knowledge, could be expected to trust in Wagner's purity of ideal on the strength of Tannhauser, which actually achieved popularity by such coarse methods of climax as the revivalistic end of the overture, by such maudlin pathos as 0 du mein holder Abendstern, and by the amiably childish grand-opera skill with which half the action is achieved by processions and a considerable fraction of the music is represented by fanfares.

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  • And I'm sorry I got so boozy and maudlin on you the other night.

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  • Moroseness and dogmatism are as far from the Pantagruelism of Rabelais as maudlin sentimentality or dilettantism.

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