The heroism it attempts to portray through gallant, maudlin scenes ought to have been tempered to achieve the powerful effect it was, no doubt, going for.
Source: cinemaexpress
A maudlin song about the death of a couple Boomer music icons becomes a song about The Phantom Menace.
Source: tor.com
He and Birbiglia have worked together many times before, and it shows as Barrish lets him have free rein with the material without allowing the performance to become either too maudlin or over the top with the subject matter.
Source: Medicine Hat News
That verse is crucial to keeping “Waterfalls” from getting too maudlin with its messaging.
Source: Stereogum
The soaring drama of “On Bended Knee” contrasts sharply with the expressionless haze of this Cobain character, and maybe that contrast is there to highlight the yawing gulf between actual depressing life and the maudlin way that it’s represented in popular music.
Source: Stereogum
Addressing the South’s political complexities can evoke reactions that range from avoidance to maudlin sentiment to cringe-inducing earnestness (I’m looking at you, Brad Paisley).
Source: PopMatters
Harris wrote a maudlin ballad about a couple’s misunderstanding called “After the Ball” and thought it had potential.
Source: Big Think
The third movement, Andante, with its nearly nearly maudlin piano introduction, becomes more opinionated as the strings add their affect.
Source: The Boston Musical Intelligencer
But then, in a jarring shift, the tone eventually turns maudlin with Charlie's increasing martyrdom.
Source: Roger Ebert
In a maudlin story, a character begs for sympathy.
Source: Seven Days
It is honest and unrelenting—and scorns the maudlin tones and romanticizing of many works on the subject.
Source: MD Theatre Guide
Written by Robert John “Mutt” Lange, it’s a maudlin country-pop-tinged dirge about losing a mother.
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Still, Empire of Light does feel designed to play like a memory piece, albeit one that only taps in to the maudlin aspects and leaves everything else the subgenre does well on the cutting room floor.
Source: Rolling Stone
It is commonly accused of maudlin sentiments, which at the time of its release were at odds with a cynical American mentality wrought by terrorism and an unpopular war abroad.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
He gives us goopy pop songs like “Lighters” and “Nowhere Fast,” and maudlin deconstructions of toxic relationships like “Love the Way You Lie” and “Headlights.
Source: Pitchfork
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