Word: maudlinity
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...Tarentella (1937) of Randal Thompson uses a Hilaire Belloc poem dedicated to the temps perdu of greengrocers everywhere. Thompson's setting deliberately employs the most outrageous musical cliches; it satirizes the maudlin text, yet simultaneously renders it--however grudingly--a sympathetic validation...
...Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
Wilde himself, of course, was haunted by morality. As it pursued him, he either laughed at it or grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality, Wilde explained exactly-and sentimentally-why his brilliant career ended so ignominiously. "What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate...
Despite the subject matter, Bunuel has prevented his film from becoming maudlin. It is frighteningly real and human. With excellent handling of an unobtrusive camera, and skillful direction of a relatively untrained cast, Bunuel deftly portrays naked reality...
...tongge-in-cheeke reporte did me delight ; For suche a wan, though percing to the rote. Be better far than manye a maudlin sote...