Word: maudlinity
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...maudlin excesses cry out for more self-restraint, and the competitive haggling with terrorists for exclusives is obscene; but it is hard to fault television for photographing hostages when it could, so that families could see and judge their condition. The belief that every American life is of value can indeed be exploited by others, but it is part of what makes us the kind of people...
...sport your Harvard sweatshirt around town or console yourself after bombing a midterm by thinking of how many brilliant minds you beat out to get here, think twice. You only had to score well on a measly SAT, drop some big words in an interview, and write an appropriately maudlin 500 word essay. You don’t know how easy...
...Ravi P. Agrawal ’05, told the tale of the violent cost of revolution from the perspective of a wife after witnessing her husband brutally die for the Communist cause. Such sobering moments offset the more humorous scenes perfectly, and the audience responding as appreciatively to the maudlin as to the merry...
...left with a collection of anecdotes and a sheaf of thesis paper. This act of forced renunciation cannot be all bad. More than Senior Week—which will, I fear, give me flashbacks to my high school senior spring, wherein many of my classmates waxed maudlin to the strikingly misconstrued soundtrack of Green Day’s “Time of Your Life”—finishing my thesis has prepared me for leaving Harvard. Come June, I suspect I will be left much as I am now: forlorn, with only anecdotes and sheaves of paper...
...tapping, rewards patience and silence with a beautifully austere, wintry texture reminiscent of Duluth, even in a scene saturated with New York swagger and California ennui. The perfect complement to a cold, listless winter day, Low’s music becomes more beautiful as it becomes more familiar, their maudlin, Mormon message piercing to the bone of even the most jaded big city hipster...