Word: maudlinity
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...film's worst drawbacks: Fredric March in the key role. Trying to convey Willy's shambling desperation, March never shakes off the appearance of an actor calculatedly playing a part; sometimes, in slurred speech and maudlin gestures, his calculation is so wide of the mark that fie seems to be trying to play a drunk...
...word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...
From that point on, The Blue Veil, though acted and directed with praiseworthy restraint, grows increasingly maudlin. Succeeding episodes merely repeat Governess Wyman's plight in triplicate, each time heaping her with keener deprivations and sanctifying her with brighter nobility. Marriage beckons Jane a second time, and with it a good man's love, but she remains always a substitute mother, never a bride...
...Blues have always been obsessed with a maudlin nostalgia for Yale, Mother of Men and Big-Time football. Perhaps for their vociferous support of Eli grid teams in Yale's present fleeting hour of amateurism, the Blues have been rewarded by the publication of a new anthology of Yale football...
Portrait Plus. Novelist Cary makes the sudden tragic ending seem inevitable. Johnson, he seems to say, is too original and impulsive a poet of life to endure life's limitations, and Cary leads poor Johnson to his doom with sympathy that never threatens to become maudlin...