Word: maudlin
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...finesse, and that, in terms of the Chopin style, that means with a very subtle application of rubato. Many pianists, knowing that Chopin calls for rubato tend to throw it on as if with a trowel, distorting the basic metrical life of the music and making the melodies sound maudlin and oversentimental. I find it's not a bad idea, while playing practically anything of Chopin, to have the Mazurka, the most intricate of Polish forms, in the back of one's mind. Incidentally, the third movement of the concerto is referred to in one of Chopin's letters...
...replies with wistful optimism, "but we changed our street.' That single exchange is a pretty good indication of Leo the Last's shortcomings. The movie does not so much compress serious social problems as belittle them, then finally resolve them with a whimsical and faintly maudlin flourish...
...Peter Luke and the director Jean Gascon have somehow drained the neurotic fire from Rolfe's dream and made his bitterness seem laughable. When we return to reality at the end of the play (the paper-mache reality of Rolfe's Cheapside flat), the play drops to the maudlin level which characterized its beginning. Like Dorothy awakening from her dream, we are reassured that all has been in fun. One more genius manque has bitten the dust...
...resident of Wyoming, constantly derided for my "cowboy and Indian" heritage, I can assure you that your maudlin expose on the American Indian will serve the sole purpose of enhancing the Indian's position as a curiosity piece along American highways...
...good old stable middle class like the rest of you; where the emphasis was on proving your manhood, getting laid, fucked, balled. But of course that was in the early sixties: that's when I went through puberty. (Now that it's 1970, we can stop all that maudlin reminiscing about the fifties and start talking about the sixties.) Remember "eat it raw," "bite the bird." and "What a piece of ass!" Not to ignore the classic "She's a great kid, not much on looks, but a wonderful personality, lots of lofts." At least pornographers, who finally achieved legitimacy...