On Tuesday, they managed to be respectful without being maudlin.
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Before I get too maudlin, let me posit an upside.
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The film doesn't have a happy ending, but it's not maudlin.
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"I don't think this is a maudlin film," Ms. Kopple said.
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Instead, Eilish's maudlin romanticism seizes the garish out of sheer joy.
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I hated the maudlin, cloying promos that insisted we would feel something.
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Whether it's maudlin, frightening or funny — you can beat it to death.
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It is maudlin, sentimental, gaudy, aggressively anti-intellectual, and shuns aesthetic complexity.
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It's another tender yet maudlin episode of This Particular Week In Baseball!
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His art wasn't sentimental or maudlin, so I'll spare his memory too much of that (though if you'd like to be sentimental or maudlin, do so with gusto and don't let anyone on social media shame you from it).
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" As Gaga leaves her apartment, Angelina says, "Don't become maudlin over all this.
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Jennifer Maudlin was a cook at a Christian-based childcare facility in Ohio.
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This Is Us is widely known as the most maudlin show on television.
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The film tips into the maudlin and quickly scoots back to the twee.
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" June brought a colorful production of Daniel Catán's maudlin "Florencia en el Amazonas.
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"I didn't want this collection to be some maudlin sad thing," he said.
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As a purely emotional experience it succeeds without feeling too manipulative or maudlin.
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In this translation by Ebba Segerberg, Eriksson acknowledges deep emotion without becoming maudlin.
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"Midsummer in Newtown" leans heavily on maudlin musical cues, cheapening its subjects' words.
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"He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry," Shenk wrote in The Atlantic.
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Yet, even without an explanation, his songs' USP remains their catchy and maudlin simplicity.
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The need to compress history leads to moments that are maudlin or heavy-handed.
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It's a haunting and profound farewell, though not one of maudlin anguish or tearfulness.
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But they can just as often land as maudlin, self-pitying, or disastrously misaimed.
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And as Malti, Padukone is by turns inquisitive, watchful and serene but never maudlin.
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Meeks, a junior at Maudlin High, was a member of his high school football team.
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The overwrought lyricism and lack of musical subtlety kept turning the opera melodramatic, even maudlin.
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Only in the show's outlandishly maudlin finale does she really put her stamp on things.
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What could potentially be maudlin or self-pitying is rescued by Gagner's self-deprecating humor.
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She knew exactly what kind of care I wanted, something that wasn't maudlin or expensive.
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It's as if the author were gunning for the Paulo Coelho Chair in Maudlin Schlock.
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" By turns fiery and maudlin, he told Israelis that they were "witnessing an attempted coup.
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Mr. Puth is a not-quite-yet pop star who specializes in the anthemically maudlin.
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The lyrics retain the passion of Pablo Honey, but they're less maudlin and even occasionally intriguing.
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And sometimes you've gained just enough life experience to wallow in a movie's more maudlin moments.
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I mean, it is manipulative and maudlin, but in a way that seems fair and transparent.
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Its blend of spoken voice, soprano and Mr. Cruz's vocals came across as maudlin and gauche.
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But Ms. Kilmartin touched on the toughest moments of mourning without a note of the maudlin.
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"Before I Fall" is tactful rather than maudlin, tasteful rather than lurid, soothing rather than creepy.
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No offense to Berg, but this is Hemingway at his worst, in equal degrees macho and maudlin.
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When did it lose its edge and become a maudlin "Happiness is a warm puppy" Hallmark sentiment?
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In a maudlin final act, Rex falls ill, and Jeannette must decide whether to reconcile with him.
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Future historians might view the maudlin scene as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
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But period pieces, especially those about domestic lives, can also easily tip into dustiness or maudlin melodrama.
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"Internal Structure of Stars" is Gowery's maudlin autobiographical tale of abandonment at 11 by his tubercular parents.
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TO: This maudlin-ass music for the flashbacks...they still haven't gotten my notes about the music!
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In the episode's most maudlin story line, the cause of Farid's repressed trauma finally comes into focus.
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But I think that we managed it without being too maudlin or saccharine or reductive or simplistic.
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Dropping the bomb of my dad's death during final wedding preparations often seemed both absurd and maudlin.
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It doesn't occur to you as you're writing that you're being maudlin or cliché or comically prolix.
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And thanks to its talented cast, it sidesteps most of the maudlin traps implied by its premise.
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Every new note is blown up and made bright, but the performance never tips over into maudlin territory.
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But as a shareholder with a 18% voting stake in the firm, he will not really be maudlin.
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But does Rowling continuing to return to the sites of her last great success seem a little maudlin?
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As portrayed by Mr. Felder, America's great vernacular songwriter was a maudlin, embittered old man all his life.
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Word of the Day : effusively or insincerely emotional _________ The word maudlin has appeared in 37 articles on nytimes.
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Adlon likewise gives the adolescent dramas space to breathe without taking them so seriously that they feel maudlin.
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But the score keeps breaking into songs, Mr. Rosenthal's jazz equivalents of arias, and they are often maudlin.
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It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise.
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"÷" is a collection of maudlin spurned-lover jams, open-eared cross-genre collaborations and a bit of incensed rapping.
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People have a tendency to become hyperbolic and a tad maudlin over celebrity deaths, a phenomenon magnified by social media.
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"The Last Supper" is a counterpoint to the notion that Tintoretto is all maudlin Madonnas and saints with uplifted eyes.
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There are ways to make that known without setting a maudlin tone for an evening that's supposed to be celebratory.
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My first thought is of certain and immediate death, followed by a maudlin song orchestrating a montage of good moments.
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In short we needed something full of the textures of the future, with the resolutely maudlin message of the now.
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The subplot of the pair's crumbling marriage, complete with a maudlin background score and emotional dialogue, weighs the film down.
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For one thing, you may get maudlin when you try to find the existential significance of every concept and experience.
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These kind of maudlin protestations didn't curb Trump's appeal in the primaries or general election and they won't work now.
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Running jokes include references to '80s teen sex symbol Phoebe Cates and the bombastically maudlin theme song for The Neverending Story.
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Mixing mathematics, physics and philosophy, Maudlin bats away the reasons that scientists and philosophers commonly give for denying this folk wisdom.
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While Schwartz's defense of Jax was actually pretty maudlin, the under-fire bartender protected himself in a far more sinister manner.
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By contrast, Orbison's knack for emotional balladry was more grounded, undeniably sincere, and set him apart from such populist, maudlin trappings.
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While we're sure Khloé thought this would be fun and harmless, like all Kocktails segments, it quickly became maudlin and bizarre.
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"Such a whopping undertaking could have easily turned maudlin, strident or just plain eye-glazing," Pauline Chen writes in her review.
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I also misted up during the "Do You Love Me?" duet, which seemed less maudlin and unforced in this naturalistic interpretation.
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Whereas Zach Braff turned the adaptation into a maudlin, Garden State-esque affair, the Italian original crackles with sun-drenched passion.
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But that was only the beginning of Goddamnit's most maudlin moments, as two acoustic tracks found their way onto the album.
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Speaking of teenagers on ecstasy at a clandestine party, the maudlin crew of Dawson's Creek suffer their own bizarre MDMA plotline.
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The novel also taps into the fierceness and passion of first love with usually elegant though sometimes maudlin and uneven writing.
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Pitfalls of maudlin cliché surround the subject, but Mr. Roberts has skirted them, above all through his bold choice of music.
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I would think he would think some of this was just too maudlin and he would want to be ironic about it.
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Admiration and affection vied with ambition and jealousy to forge relationships with more than their share of explosive outbursts and maudlin reconciliations.
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It's a world of scarcity, all right, yet what's truly meager, and often maudlin, is the movement vocabulary, which buckles without building.
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Even the bad times, in recollection, seem somehow not to include him, though he was right there, drunk, sarcastic, maudlin, a phantom.
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Instead, Tarrant exalts the pure-white past white supremacists have conjured up for Europe, and evokes the maudlin myths of nationalist agitprop.
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While the pilot tugs pretty hard on the heartstrings, the following episodes are far less maudlin, leaning more toward peppy workplace drama.
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Whatever this maudlin, vengeful, pompous, overwrought thing being reflected back at us is or is supposed to be, it surely isn't us.
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Taking to social media, their broadcasts of their thoughts and feelings are increasingly dark and maudlin, exposing the ways their privilege works.
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The tone turns saccharine and then, with a sex-work subplot that could be ripped from a nineteenth-century penny dreadful, maudlin.
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"Split" is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children.
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I said something to this effect, or perhaps something even more maudlin — why does the moon always seem to meet our gaze?
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But Tim Maudlin thinks our direct impressions of the world are a better guide to reality than we have been led to believe.
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When Nestor's mom dies, it's maudlin, to be sure, but Muller's script is willing to go for the jugular in terms of pathos.
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Columbine touches and links many of the works, but ostensibly not others, unless, perhaps, we take them to a maudlin degree of literalness.
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Don't drink too much, or too little According to Debretts getting drunk is 'socially unattractive' and "can turn social bonhomie into maudlin introspection".
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It is important to know the path traveled and how we got here but after a while it gets old and often maudlin.
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When she started taking medication to control the seizures, it made her giddy, and she worried it would make her write maudlin fiction.
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Maybe some of my students found it sappy or maudlin, that sense of belonging, but my heart swelled righteously against their imagined accusations.
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And Bill Clinton has learned that his threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity and casting blame on everyone but himself doesn't work anymore.
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He also uploaded photos of them together throughout their marriage, culminating in a sappy, but not maudlin, look into this (fictional) couple's marriage.
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Both films are aggressively nostalgic for a bygone era, but Hearts in Atlantis has far less to say and skews more toward maudlin sentimentality.
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After the Gemstones deliver a maudlin report from China to their thousands of parishioners, the rock music begins, and the offering plates are passed.
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The later scenes descend into wacky yet maudlin action-comedy territory — a major plot beat involves an autonomous rat drone that's also a taser.
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I've told them that I want no complications; I want no issues of abandonment and reconciliation; I want no maudlin reunion, no snake tears.
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But the current-day trip to Japan, which makes up the bulk of the novel, is marked by more pat and maudlin plot twists.
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The film, directed by Jacobs and co-penned by Jennifer Majka, ponders the intersection of 2D and 3D while telling an humorously maudlin story.
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" As "Tootsie" is a comedy, that makes perfect sense, but when Mr. Yazbek switches modes — in sincere, never maudlin, songs like "Who Are You?
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Maudlin and meandering, this first feature by the actor John Carroll Lynch could have sprouted organically from the compost of its star's back catalog.
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This statement eloquently draws together a number of aesthetic and symbolic components of Standfest's work: contraptions, instructions, maudlin memories, grotesque outcomes, and dark, dark humor.
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Although Goodman can't seem to get away from that looking glass, her work never becomes maudlin, never asks for sympathy, and never singles her out.
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At every narrative turn, there's a maudlin awareness that dreaming about someone else, living in a dream, or using art to replicate life is false.
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The movie was criticized for sanitizing the book's darker themes in favor of maudlin, fantastical special effects that dulled the heaviness of the subject matter.
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The death tribute cartoon is different from simple tribute art, in that it uses a visual format designed to amuse, but to be maudlin instead.
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There were maudlin pleas on Twitter, parody sites posting about fake charities set up to help drought sufferers, and the inevitable angry Hitler reaction video.
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There's a real depth to the recordings that you don't often get with this sort of faraway ambient-based music, with a maudlin 90s feel.
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She recognized a stark pattern: She felt happy and lucid after her first and second drinks, but sloppy and maudlin after her third and fourth.
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Ms. Teng, who died suddenly in 1995 at age 42, was renowned for turning traditional Taiwanese and Chinese folk songs into maudlin Western-style hits.
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But Mr. Lochtefeld actually manages to give a sincere and human-scale performance, even if most of what he has to say is maudlin hogwash.
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Instead it has brought us Meryl Streep denouncing Mr. Trump at the Golden Globes and "Saturday Night Live" singing a maudlin farewell to Barack Obama.
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Alas, he never really fixed his state's finances, and voters at home have tired of his maudlin theatrics (he is keen on offering to hug strangers).
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That's part of what keeps them from feeling maudlin and gives them their force: They are written by someone who believes them because she has to.
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Much of Ms. Womack's catalog has pushed against the perception of countrified emoting as a maudlin affair, but she's never been one to intellectualize her approach.
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Such a whopping undertaking could have easily turned maudlin, strident or just plain eye-glazing; instead, Pickert has produced an evenhanded, powerful and unflinching page-turner.
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She's less successful when she turns serious, trying for a poignancy that requires more acting skill than she possesses; several segments are more maudlin than moving.
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" That said, don't expect a slew of maudlin tunes from "I-G-G-Y" on the new record, which includes the recently released video for single "Team.
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Ayer works to establish those villains as gleeful fantasies of unfettered freedom, then fetters them with maudlin backstories that make them all sad, soulful, misused, and misunderstood.
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"The Colour in Anything" grows self-pitying, almost maudlin, in ways Mr. Blake has managed to avoid in the past simply by using more elusive lyrical metaphors.
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You had to wonder, though, whether things might turn maudlin with the concluding symphony, Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique," a work more redolent of morbid endings than of fresh beginnings.
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Meanwhile, Serena Joy is grappling with having betrayed her husband in order to help June escape with "her" child, which leads to several maudlin conversations about fidelity.
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"I hate a maudlin energy around certain subjects because I don't personally believe it helps and the more you can do with laughter the better," Bea said.
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Central to the maudlin scene is a large pink strap-on dildo framed by sheer fabric and illuminated by the soft, diffuse light of an evening sunset.
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The films that do take faith seriously tend to be maudlin, "faith-based" ones like God's Not Dead — films that pacify, rather than provoke, their intended audiences.
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I just can't take Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara emoting to each other set to some maudlin indie rock in the shadow of a fucking SHEET GHOST seriously.
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Julio Quintana's "The Vessel" is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life's uncertainties after a devastating loss.
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Porter resists the static register of the maudlin, creating instead a fabric of constant shifts and calibrations in voice, moving from rage to madness to profanity and humor.
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Initially, silliness balances sentimentality; later in the season, when the series turns somber to confront its body count, there is nothing maudlin in its picture of self-reckoning.
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Then there are the startling and slightly maudlin images of Prince's hieroglyphic guitar, and Michael Jackson's embellished white dance shoe, which the singer wore during a concert tour.
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While they can have a tendency to be maudlin or condescending, some of these films have proven to be sensitive portrayals of men and women struggling with disabilities.
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This sitcom often ventures into serious material without becoming overly maudlin; it's largely driven by the chemistry and camaraderie between Ms. Janney and her co-star, Anna Faris.
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Grace is resentful and self-pitying in this stretch, and, while Bening's performance keeps the drama from ever becoming maudlin, Nicholson's dialogue never strays far from bland platitudes.
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The treacle trap was especially hard to avoid considering that "Matilda" and "Groundhog Day" deal with children and redemption — subjects that have been known to trigger maudlin triteness.
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Yet because these authors were out to entertain children — it's no accident the books remain popular — they never tip into the maudlin; if anything, they lean into camp.
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The Friday Night Lights theme music is a maudlin touch, but nearly three years ago, Romo telegraphed his play, and it puts a wistful bow on the whole saga.
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Which only makes it all the more baffling that a maudlin piano cover by former Britain's Got Talent contestant Calum Scott is doing much, much better than the original.
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It feels maudlin, almost obscene, to write or even think about a stranger's death in such a way, but Barkan has never been shy about talking about his death.
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And doesn't "dwelling on the past," the corrective that Brinkmann advises, lead to the kind of maudlin nostalgia for the good old days that got us Brexit and Trump?
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The Clio commercial entered this terrain and, contra the advertising-as-arms-race metaphor, broke through using one of the oldest pieces of emotional weaponry there is: maudlin sentimentality.
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I fear I will reveal myself to be a true Valentine's curmudgeon, but there's something kind of maudlin about it all, down to the dutiful line at the corner florist.
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A halfhearted heroin habit, her "sweet smoke," helps with the pain that so suffuses the last part of the book it only just stays on the right side of maudlin.
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While at Disney, he solidified his own unique art style, with its weirdly elongated shapes and people, and a touch of the maudlin, the gothic, and the slightly off-kilter.
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One day, when I was in a particularly maudlin mental space, I was overcome by a massive wave of sentimentality upon seeing the can, and it all clicked for me.
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In his TV series, he's indulged his squishy side, a little in "Extras," and a lot in the maudlin "Derek," in which he played a beatific, childlike nursing-home worker.
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She performed it on acoustic guitar, eventually joining two of her bandmates, also playing guitar, for a maudlin, Eagles-like effect that punctured the sharp vulnerability with which she opened.
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When Biden finally arrived at his Manchester field office Saturday — 25 minutes late, which meant the few canvassers who showed up began their shift late — he offered a maudlin vow.
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"'Split' is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children," A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review.
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The actual meaning and content of those beliefs is excised in favor of a maudlin romantic plot and a mystery; anything that appears mysterious or supernatural is quickly explained away.
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It's tough to take all the hardcore emoting seriously, particularly as the emotional heavy lifting is designed to be done by the occasional maudlin line in brief pauses between the explosions.
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And my grandmother was, too, but she held my hand and she said, 'I hope, my dear, that you won't be too maudlin while you're putting this music into the world.
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A maudlin older man who worked in a wine shop used to tell me how, with just 200 American troops, he could go home, topple the government and live in peace.
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Ms. Fleming offered a slightly maudlin rendition of "Danny Boy" and a kicky version of "Shall We Dance," from "The King and I," with just a touch of the light fantastic.
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But it's also a maudlin simplification of people's despair, as if the entire region is comprised entirely of aging, disillusioned factory workers who are out of work and waiting to die.
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Emo was (and still is) up for interpretation, but the maudlin title of the compilation (including its various follow-ups), and the cover artworks, cemented emo's character in the cultural terrain.
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She resists making Britt-Marie's loneliness maudlin, and as her character's rigidity softens, August's restraint with gestures of affection make each smile and each laugh feel like they've been hard-earned.
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Set The Boy Free's conversational tone certainly contrasts with Morrissey's maudlin descriptions of Stretford streets and the abyss in which I live [that] hasn't the wit to save itself from savage ignorance.
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There's also a cringe-worthy aspect to some of the album's more maudlin moments, but it's hard to say if they are intentionally mocking teenage introspection, or the result of genuine reflection.
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"The character's pluck and mischief are nearly drowned in a bog of maudlin mommy love, and his vows of vengeance dampen the spirit of fun," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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" His adaption of The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Oscars and did $94 million at the box office, but Variety found Spielberg's "turn at 'serious' filmmaking" to be maudlin and "overblown.
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It's exceptionally well cast, sentimental without being maudlin, and has just enough intrigue to keep Internet conspiracy forums occupied (no, Antoni can't cook, yes, Tan's hair really is just naturally like that).
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Out-of-town reviews were decidedly mixed, but I'm hopeful this production can thread the needle between the tragedy of her end and her overall impact without being too exploitative and maudlin.
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They spoke of Trump with an awe and a maudlin devotion bordering on religious; Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, declared that Trump had been given less due process than Jesus Christ himself.
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And while the tone is a delicate balancing act, Bayona ("The Impossible") has managed to connect on levels that elude so many projects in this vein, being genuinely emotional without becoming too maudlin.
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There's no disguising how unimpressive this TV movie is, from the T-Bird reject zombies to the maudlin ending featuring the ghost of Wayne reappearing in a glowing orb to save the day.
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Although I'm still on the fence whether or not my social media is important at all, MySocialBook definitely adds a little bit of import to an otherwise maudlin part of my online life.
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Will Mulally, Al Aribaya Although marginally better than "Batman v Superman" and "Suicide Squad," director Zack Snyder's latest is still a profound mess of maudlin muscles, incoherent action and jaw-droppingly awful CGI.
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There's a sense that in exchange for this impressive access, the producers felt obligated to construct a film as soft and hazy as a Hallmark Channel movie, complete with the maudlin musical score.
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She is the daughter of Maudlin B. Jones and Phillip R. Jones of Piscataway, N.J. The bride's father retired as an office services manager at N. W. Ayer, the advertising agency in Manhattan.
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Although Jack Taylor, Bruen's frequently drunk, violent and maudlin detective hero, is still the main draw, he's rivaled by a serial killer who works himself into a murderous rage over improper grammatical usage.
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It was the brainchild of 22-year-old Mexican-American underground comics creator Jhonen Vasquez, then best known for his cult comix series Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and its maudlin spin-off, Squee.
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So, why then, as this generation begins to set, am I feeling so maudlin about the prospect of loading up Control and finally giving it a spin in a brutalist, bureaucratic horror house?
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Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast: The script is chockful of the kinds of platitudes that would ordinarily arm critics with enough artillery to eviscerate a movie for being corny, heavy-handed, or unforgivably maudlin.
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Planetary rovers have a long history of exhibiting cuteness in the line of duty, from the lonely selfies taken by the NASA Curiosity rover to the maudlin poetry of the Chinese Yutu lunar vehicle.
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For more information you can check out Vine's recently posted FAQ on the subject, or, if you're feeling maudlin, why not read our story from October last year analyzing just why the app died.
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It wouldn't be a World Cup without a controversy over a player crumpling with a maudlin cry of agony, clutching his shin, and plaintively pleading for mercy (and a penalty for the other team).
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But some conspiracy theorists dwelling in the recesses of the internet demand "proof of life" that Democrats have not engineered some maudlin trick to stop Trump from filling Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court.
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Jayson Musson has produced a maudlin elegy for victims of state violence; you gaze at a night sky and constellations appear, labeled with names of the dead, while elevator music plays in the background.
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So it was almost like she was — maybe it's a bit maudlin and melodramatic — but I was thinking that she was sort of teaching her or addressing her in some sort of maternal way.
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It was about Stevie Y stepping up and being the ultimate captain and putting the team on his back or whatever version of the same old, maudlin narrative sports broadcasters and advertising execs love pushing.
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Reviews of the first singles — "Malibu" and "Inspired" — have ranged from "maudlin" to "cute" to "raw and passionate," but the consensus on her image rebranding won't be entirely set until the whole album is out.
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Bearing most of the blame, though, is the screenwriter, Chris Sparling, who sends Arthur (a maudlin Matthew McConaughey), an American mathematics professor, into the forest with a bottle of pills and mouthfuls of dolorous dialogue.
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Which is too bad, because that surrenders a large chunk of screen time to the trudge of recovery and Callahan's maudlin callbacks to the mother who abandoned him and whom he blames for his addiction.
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Our Cassandra is Mildred Groves, a woman in her early 20s who is aggravated by a dull life of caring for her irritable, controlling mother and exasperating people with her visions of maudlin future events.
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In the finale, I had just started to get annoyed by Dolores and Teddy's maudlin, speechy beach farewell when the cameras pulled back to reveal it was all a deliberate artificial staging — and my jaw dropped.
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It's a delight to be taught by one of our least cynical filmmakers Herzog has become almost a meme in recent years, his signature dour voiceovers sent up by Samantha Bee and in maudlin teen movies.
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With Buck Owens, Haggard was a progenitor of what became known as the "Bakersfield Sound," an alternative to the more maudlin "Nashville Sound," and an early iteration of what would become known as roots rock or Americana.
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Yes, the parade of grieving family members—three speakers in a row identified as "Victim of Illegal Immigrants"; the conspiracy-theorist mother of one of the soldiers who died in Benghazi—was creepy in its maudlin exploitation.
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"Unloveable" is a song about the maudlin, teenage self-deprecation Morrissey has embodied since the beginning of his career, and equating Baldwin's tireless civil rights campaigning to being a little bit goth is preposterous to the extreme.
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The characters are less mythic "horseman cowboy" and more maudlin grad-student cowboy whose woman is leaving him: an interesting revision of a tired Western plot, maybe, but not when it's mostly the result of self-absorption.
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As with "Titanic" and "Romeo and Juliet" before it, the maudlin plot had an obvious appeal to anxious youngsters seeking to turn their ordinary struggles with first love into definitive proof of a universe conspiring against them.
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Far from being maudlin, though, the main sensation is enormously life-affirming and even poignant, given how society in general -- and the media culture in particular -- tends to discount those who have graduated beyond the most desirable demographics.
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It's also worth checking out lesser-known 22010s hits like "Train of Thought," which begins with a train sound effect because of course it does, and "The Way of Love," a gloriously maudlin cover of a French chanson.
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Knowing that a man who has been so intent on enacting policies that limit the rights of women, queer people, and people of color was watching this same maudlin spectacle of patriotism made me feel a little queasy.
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If you're naturally maudlin and prone to pathetic pangs of self pity then it's tough to isolate one night from the vast blurry gallery of pants-round-the-ankle, piss-down-the-trouser-leg nights and early mornings.
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Johannes's lovesickness, which is what forces him to break free from his undying devotion to Hitler, is mined for serious, almost maudlin drama — a narrative that has also surfaced, often in problematic ways, in other movies and fiction.
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Like the Beatles' maudlin "When I'm Sixty-Four," it's one of the better songs about self-reflection ever, one for all of those regrets, lost loves, and things we did wrong that we'll never get the chance to correct.
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Though the wide-eyed perspective is an asset to Navin, one occasionally feels the constraints of having so young a narrator, whose observations can veer toward the maudlin, and to whom every cliché has the appearance of a revelation.
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It turns out that Mr. Puth is not the maudlin crooner who entered the spotlight, but rather a sophisticated pop marksman with a gift for spare, pointed arrangements — he produced almost the whole album himself — and detailed, vulnerable lyrics.
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I was about to move my mother to a dementia care facility, and let me be honest: the maudlin pictures of pleasantly bemused older people forgetting names that we are shown in media are never the real pictures of the disease.
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Sax writes both concepts so gently, with such heart and mastery and never veering into the maudlin, because ultimately the book is for those he's writing about: the queer folks who were taught early on that their desire was shameful, punishable.
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What struck me most about my experience, aside from universe's maudlin sense of humor in forcing me to interact with Tim for a brief pocket of time, is that escape rooms hit that sweet spot between icebreaker and party game.
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Like his brother Logan, who attempted to refurbish his image with a maudlin video aimed at suicide prevention after tastelessly filming the body of a suicide victim in Japan, Jake Paul's efforts feel poorly thought out and questionable at best.
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Ken Burns's 1990 documentary The Civil War, which made a maudlin case that the war ultimately brought the country closer together and largely ignored its aftermath, emerged right at a moment when the so-called revisionist interpretation of Reconstruction was ascendant.
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Keith Urban found MacKenzie's rearrangement of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me" middling and maudlin and would've preferred it completely stripped down, while Harry Connick Jr. thought the song needed its original double-time beat to energize it.
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A number of successful artists served in World War II, including Bill Maudlin, who drew Willie and Joe, archetypes for infantrymen on the front line; and Bill Keane, who went on to draw Family Circus after his military service ended.
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It was that opening episode that featured Ballou's letter, in a tremendously moving (and maudlin) reading enhanced by a sequence of still photographs and Jay Ungar's sentimental ballad "Ashokan Farewell" playing beneath: Ballou seems to have a premonition of his own death.
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For decades, Paul Linehan, a 47-year-old tenor from Narraghmore in County Kildare, Ireland, would sing those lines from the maudlin Irish ballad "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears," but last week, for the first time, he choked on the lyrics.
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He dies heroically quoting pacifist wisdom from the book back to a distraught Morgan: "If I injure my opponent, I injure myself," and it's to "Bury Me Here" director Alrick Riley's credit that he downplays how maudlin and ironic this scene is.
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" Baldwin contrasted them with actors like Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson and especially Sidney Poitier, whose performances often moved "miraculously beyond the confines of the script" and offered more realistic representations of black life that they "smuggled like contraband in a maudlin tale.
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It is, let's say, suboptimal for a nation's mental and political health to reduce the course of human events to a series of wins for and nefarious attacks against one maudlin septuagenarian narcissist, but in terms of television storytelling it does neaten things up considerably.
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Her mother barely makes ends meet; the manager of the hotel (Willem Dafoe) didn't sign up to serve as landlord to the long-term tenants of his hotel, but he plays a role that in a different, more maudlin movie would be something of a universal father.
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While the movie's premise feels prone to the maudlin, it's ultimately quite poignant; Wonder is a family-oriented tale in which people make mistakes in the way they treat one another, but learn and grow in a way that doesn't feel condescending to the film's younger audience.
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Captain Fantastic's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour made the first of six stops at New York City's most famous venue Thursday night, and any fears that John's swan song would be a maudlin affair were instantly allayed be the 71-year-old legend's sequined ringmaster's tuxedo jacket.
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But what struck me as frankly offensive about "American Son" was its treatment of the son, Jamal, who never appears onstage—you can guess by minute seven that he'll never show up anywhere else, either—but exists, instead, as an accumulation of his parents' maudlin projections.
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For much of his show "Stay", Steen Raskopoulos flicks through a series of surreal one-man character sketches: a vampire who loves to dance; a child lost in a supermarket whose anxious inner-monologue comes out as rap; a maudlin judge at a spelling bee; a yogi turned renegade.
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Maddow's prime-time hour of overheated speculation lacks the antic sensibility and maudlin sentimentality of, for instance, the pre-exile Glenn Beck, who had scribbled all his manic and intricate chalkboard theories of history as conspiracy (and vice versa) with the studied passion of a coffee-shop prophet.
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If Rick were a real live person, he would undoubtedly zap to my side at this point and vaporize me for the crime of being maudlin, because why express a real human feeling when you could just be awesome and not give a shit about anyone or anything?
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Maudlin, who is a professor at New York University and one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, made his name studying the strange behavior of "entangled" quantum particles, which display behavior that is as counterintuitive as can be; if anything, he thinks physicists have downplayed how transformative entanglement is.
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Mr. Barker, who has spent much of his non-Blink downtime in cross-genre collaborations that treat him like a tattooed curiosity remains an arresting, versatile drummer, and on this album, his vitality is the thing that rescues the band when it threatens to let the maudlin creep too far in.
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They involve clever women learning to create themselves without obvious models in hostile environments, yet they never feel maudlin; rather, in their urbanity, as well as in their momentum and subversion of genre, they read as if written by Dickens after a year spent majoring in gender studies at Vassar.
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The title, with its reference to his mind "slipping away," might sound maudlin, he said, but it was taken from a song that Utecht, a professional musician, wrote to highlight the possibility that he may eventually develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., a degenerative brain disorder linked to repeated head hits.
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As much as he had a penchant for cheap jokes (corpses juxtaposed with ironic signs) and maudlin titles ("I Cried When I Took This Picture"), he also captured the full range of human expression, documenting the seamy side of a world-class city, sticking around after a tragedy to photograph the onlookers.
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Spruced up for its 30th anniversary, this artfully composed (if oppressively maudlin) immigrant saga by Bille August follows a father (Max von Sydow) and his young son (Pelle Hvenegaard) after they arrive in Denmark from Sweden looking for work, for which the father, struggling in vain to project dignity, isn't in great condition.
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Whether it was the juvenile assault on President Trump's hairstyle by haircare company It's a 85033, the hysterically preachy ad by 84 Lumber, or the maudlin and disgustingly dishonest missive on gender equality from Audi, this year's Super Bowl ads managed to be both a thumb in their viewers' eyes and a middle finger toward their viewers' politics.
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The music in the cab was a maudlin, extended-length, synthesizer-saxophone version of "I Want to Know What Love Is." Listening to it and pondering the complexity of what should have been a straightforward interaction, I worried that being in Nanjing would mean feeling as lost as Foreigner was when the band members wrote that god-awful song.
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If you thought quickly hiding drunk photos from your employers and deleting cringe-worthy maudlin ramblings before your exes can see them does the trick, there's some bad news: Scientists have developed algorithms that can detect drunk tweets and geo-locate the users who wrote them, and they used it to monitor the drunken behavior of New Yorkers in 2014.
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"My Father" embraces the maudlin expectations of such an act, through its close-up shots, in grainy black and white film, of the back of Kubota's head, as she drinks and weeps while watching Japanese singers perform on TV. The muffled sound contributes to the melancholic texture of the piece, as does the slow, patient gaze that Kubota establishes with her camerawork.
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For all its satirical jabs at bourgeois mores and self-involved artists (a MacArthur "genius" grant is name-checked, in passing), "Marriage Story" is suffused with humanism and forgiveness — a tone that people familiar with Baumbach's real-life split from Jennifer Jason Leigh might find more than a little self-serving, but that saves the enterprise from being insufferably maudlin.
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And I think what's interesting is, drunk guys when they're on their own will probably talk in a really maudlin way about their wives and the idea was always to come up with a very real, funny sort of scene where they were just like any other guys would be, couched in this slightly weird jealousy because Frank is now hanging out with Micro's wife.
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DeLillo, in his late period, has preserved much of his mastery of individual words, but his gift for shaping compelling individual characters (as opposed to loquacious system functionaries) out of those words has diminished greatly since the days of Libra and Underworld: In spite of the maudlin ending tacked to the end of the novel, its language, plot, and lack of character make it clear that the coldness has won out.
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" (Winters had himself complained about the inadequacy of existing anthologies.) But Williams accepted the ground for chastisement: "At the risk of sounding maudlin"—he knew his audience—"I must say to you what is so obvious to me that perhaps on occasion I do not say it directly enough: that there is no man alive whose work I value more than yours, of whose posterity I am more sure, and to whom I feel a profounder debt.
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