Word: maudlinity
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...cynicism--how he could suddenly, after insisting that his faith was a private matter, say last week that God had inspired his decision to allow gay civil unions. I admire his wife's choice not to be involved in the campaign and his own choice not to take a maudlin autobiographical path on the stump, but these decisions leave a void. They make it harder to know what sort of man he is. I wonder how he delivered bad news to his patients...
...Minutemen’s effort was capped at 5:39 in the third by a tip-in on the doorstep by Stephen Werner, assisted by Jeff Lang and Greg Maudlin...
...Maudlin, witty, pugnacious...
...Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly people, so readers spend a lot of time in the company of some very bitter, bitchy old biddies. But mostly because, for a book that comes on all hard-boiled, it gives way to some embarrassingly maudlin emotions. Let's face it: love is all fine and dandy, but we all know that hate makes for better copy...
...night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick, new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn't be missed. For classy aperitifs...