Word: maudlin
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...lover, Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), a suave Harlem numbers-runner promises her that he will always stay with her. And he does: throughout her long concert tours, imprisonment and addiction, he remains loyal. His constancy is ironic when compared to Holliday's actual experiences. Most of his maudlin lines are delivered to a slushy background of Michel LeGrand music. This combination of irony and inappropriateness is believable only because of Williams's acting; he somehow manages to deliver his lines so that his character seems strong. This strength, however, makes Billie by contrast much weaker because the audience finds...
...novel's plot remains more or less intact, but it is laden with Lehman's heavy touches of sympathy and maudlin sentimentality. These do little to focus Roth's savage vision: Jewishness as a perpetual circumcision of the psyche...
...Merle. Doc's smooth, lively harmonica and his own virtuoso lead work make "Freight Train Boogie" a superb sample of the happily driving energy of country music. "Summertime" testifies to many of the virtues of Doc's style: the simple, straightforward vocal is deeply evocative without being at all maudlin, just as his humor on stage is warm and folksy without seeming corny in the least...
...song "Goodbye Josh," dedicated to his friend and mentor Josh White, is also straightforward, and foregoes maudlin sentiment for a simple, sincere farewell...
...before you become the least bit maudlin, the voice in the corner of the room has called you and everyone together again. Then sent all of you careening across the floor, pretending to be, as the voice desires, Greek vases. And this is quite a sight, you think, making your way across the floor, ducking, swirling and tossing back your head. All the very good, pretty, and smug dancers gallop about in the most unseemly fashion, looking at best like broncos or Isadora's scarves, but hardly to be praised by Keats...