Word: maudlinity
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...Thank you for the common sense and research on the CIA and the students. We had just read a shocking, maudlin, sensational, full-page newspaper ad put out by Ramparts magazine, screaming to the world that "the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over the past 15 years," and other shameful accusations. We recognized it as a nasty, cheap attempt to stir up scandal in an effort to boost sales, but what would all of Europe think...
...skillfully as the British. The dignity and the distance, the pageantry, the speed to the spot of a national disaster, the miles of cut ribbons are something for the TV citizen to look up to and yet feel comfortable with. Sophisticated Britons consider it all a tiresome and maudlin joke and regard the royal family as the personification of squareness. But the general attitude is one of admiration, almost of religious reverence, and no one seriously wants to do away with the monarchy, if only because Britons can scarcely imagine an alternative. An indication of how seriously Britons take...
...Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti. In Dublin and Berlin, the running, grasping crowds give massive support to the making of an image. As violent contrast, the movie cuts with maudlin frequency to Kennedy's funeral preparations in Washington. Every sequence is anguishing, relentlessly focused on the ordeal of a benumbed young widow guiding her children through the protocol of official grief...
...also has a monotony of tone. Ironically enough, his character--which should have the coldest mask--is played with the most warmth and sympathy. However, he gets too involved, too early. Never having worn his cynicism with detachment, his last-act confession of feeling has to border on the maudlin to have any effect. But his drunken recounting of the night at the whorehouse, along with Sheila Hart's portrayal of the servant girl, are the only moments of humor in the play which came across successfully. Nagin and Seltzer seem to feel reticent and slightly guilty when O'Neill...
Unseeing, hopelessly ignorant because she has never been to school, a blind girl gropes through a squalid, nightmare life. Her name is Selina. All day long she sits alone in a city tenement, stringing costume-jewelry beads to earn her keep. Her grandfather (Wallace Ford) is a maudlin old drunk. Her mother (Shelley Winters at her strident best) is a fat, vicious trollop who accidentally caused Selina's blindness years ago, now despises her for deserving pity...