Word: maudlinity
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...furious, no-quarter battle was under way that lasted until the century's end. To the artistic rebels, the oldtime Victorian painter kowtowed to an ignorant, over-sentimental public. He also debased the sanctity of art by making line and form play second fiddle to maudlin subject matter and moss-backed morality...
Founded on a ridiculous misconception of justice, produced by Selznick International with unfailing sentimentality, and ludicrously miscast in attempt to use available star talent, "I'll Be Seeing You" is an imposing monument to the maudlin tastes and perverted emotions of Hollywood's film-makers...
Patrick Hamilton, creator of "Angel Street," wrote a plausible psychological murder in "Hangover Square." Hollywood's "Hangover Square" tries hard to be a big, had horror picture, and it would probably not have succumbed to maudlin melodrama in the grips of the original story...
...little booklet by Manhattan Psychiatrist Thomas A. C. Rennie (TIME, May 29), and Luther E. Woodward, Ph.D. Title: Two Talks to Families of Returning Servicemen-When He Comes Back and If He Comes Back Nervous (National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc.; 15?). Gist: be patient and sympathetic (but not maudlin), use your imagination and common sense...
Preston Sturges has the ability, all too rare among Hollywood's directors, to understand and to portray sympathetically honest human emotion. He succeeds where others fall, in avoiding the maudlin and trite by weaving just the right amount of humor into a situation. He succeeds so well that it is often a question whether the humorous frame rather than the theme is the dominant note in the motion picture...