Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncharacteristically maudlin gesture, Stefanian yesterday expressed gratitude for 35 years of loyal customers. "I'd like to thank the Harvard students and employees," he said...
...long second act McNally moves his play into more maudlin, paranoid territory; the Callas arias get louder, the dialogue grows tense, and eventually Stephen's obsessive behavior culminates in a crime of passion lifted directly from Carmen...
Crystal says he is not Buddy, although he makes him so instantly recognizable in his Nipsey Russell loungewear and pinkie ring, in his scathing put-downs and maudlin sentimentality, that the character seems to come from the inside out. Crystal says he only wanted to show "the terrorist inside each of us, who can ruin things at any moment." But like many people for whom affection comes easily, Crystal may have felt driven to test his positives. "It was easy to like Harry ((in When Harry Met Sally . . .)) and Mitch ((the mid-life ad guy in City Slickers...
...blown up by volunteers. Delegates heard The Star-Spangled Banner sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning in America campaign...