Word: maudlinity
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...pages. It is the story of cold, glittery Amanda, an ambitious historical novelist, and Julian, the cold, glittery millionaire publisher whom she lures to a marriage bed with no more than "her usual annoyance at the damage to her permanent." It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled...
...Maudlin affection nourished: tall, hulking Fernando Ortiz Rubio threw himself on Governor Zárate's neck, kissed his hand, blubbered: "You have been a real father to me." Then the conversation turned to futurismo. In Mexico futurismo is no esoteric art-cult; it is the highly practical question of who is going to succeed whom in political office. Only seven months in his job, Governor Zárate thought the choice of topic indelicate. He moved resentfully over to the bar. Equally hurt, Fernando followed him, relieved his offended feelings by drawing his pistol on his political papa...
This lengthy, maudlin attempt to tell a tale of frontier womanhood is tough on Pioneer Stanwyck. Most of the time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired...
...fact, most Cantabrigians scorn the company's "ready-made" Mother's Day greetings, terming them naive and hackneyed. Those students, however who chose the form telegrams, are usually inclined toward maudlin sentimentality, the canvassing showed. But sentimental or not, Harvard men, this year as in the past, are outstripping their Radcliffe sisters in expressions of love for mother...
...vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...