maudlinin a sentence
-
•
In part, it was an emotional liability, flaring anger one moment, maudlin sentimentality the next.† (source)
-
•
When he was sure no one would see him do anything so maudlin, Glen Papineau raised his bottle of Leiney's to the sky and let the tears come again.† (source)
-
•
I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
Rag ends of language are floating in his head: mephitic, metronome, mastitis, metatarsal, maudlin.† (source)
-
•
Maudlin, self-indulgent, tasteless.† (source)
-
•
It staggered drunkenly and stared at him with maudlin selfpity that began to turn to hate.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
The conversation was taking too maudlin a turn for him.† (source)
-
•
She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly.† (source)
-
•
I wanted to write a farewell column to Marley, but I was afraid all my emotion would pour out into a gushy, maudlin piece of self-indulgence that would only humiliate me.† (source)
-
•
You don't want me," she said and hated herself at once for her maudlin self-pity, then even more for the triumph she felt as his eyes welled with tears.† (source)
-
•
Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage-all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriously aging, the frailty of others, interpersonal responsibility, weakness of all kinds, the slow and unspectacular course of life itself...[TIop climbers...can be deeply moved, in fact maudlin; but only for worthy martyred excomrades.† (source)
-
•
One of Don's nephews, who went to Princeton, was busy hitting on Chloe, while Lissa, in the ten minutes I'd been gone, had crossed over from happily buzzing to completely maudlin, and was now well on her way to flat-out weepy drunk.† (source)
-
•
"We're getting maudlin here," Sim broke in, knocking his glass against the table.† (source)
-
•
Stop this, she told herself, you're being stupid and maudlin.† (source)
-
•
Anyway-to put an end to this maudlin display of nostalgia-in the course of our conversation McMurphy and I wondered what would be the attitude of some of the men toward a carnival here on the ward?† (source)
-
•
It occurs to her that maybe Terry's reluctance to take on this project has as much to do with avoiding this kind of maudlin moment as avoiding the work itself.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)