Word: maudlinity
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...employees. He wants to restore the personal touch between management and workers, be sure that a plant manager can get to know his employees, spot up & coming young men. Said Mitchell: "People feel good when the boss claps them on the back. I'm not being maudlin or sentimental-the system pays...
Comedy, however, does not accurately describe this play, for there is nothing really funny about it. As is the case with much American humor, the intended comedy depends solely upon exaggeration. In this particular mishap, a maudlin youth called Willy Baxter goes through the throes of his first love. While Baxter may be hailed as the first American teen-ager, his traumas are highly contrived and distorted. He behaves in a mawkish manner that is neither amusing nor credible...
...this respect Hein Heckroth, the designer, is the most outstanding contributor to the production. His settings and costumes are highly spectacular and yet are generally in perfect sympathy with the meanings of the film. At times Heckroth's display becomes a bit overwhelming, and his taste a little maudlin. Such is the case in the third act, which in other respects is also the poorest sequence. But as a contrast, the second act is a superb blending of decor, music, and dance...
...comes to little more than the old one of the husband who nearly loses his wife because he neglects her. But from these familiar materials he has worked up a haunting story, in which the flesh and the sentiment of love have full play without becoming either nasty or maudlin...
...Trevor Howard, as the doctor, is too enthusiastic for the setting. Celia Johnson, however, gives an excellent performance as the wife. Though she is on the screen for almost the entire action, she manages to maintain an atmosphere of suspense and indecision without letting down and without becoming maudlin...