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Six example sentences with maudlin, each labelled with its topic.
The ballad turns maudlin in the last verse, piling strings over a lyric that was fine on its own.
Music
The final act goes maudlin, with slow motion hugs and a piano cue that will not let anyone breathe.
Movies
Victorian farewell scenes read as maudlin now, three pages of weeping relatives and one perfectly composed child.
Literature
The senator's farewell speech turned maudlin near the end, with tears over a hometown diner nobody in the chamber had visited.
Politics
The retirement toast grew maudlin after the third speaker, who wept about a stapler the departing manager had once lent him.
Business
The tribute video was maudlin, all slow motion and piano, for a player who had spent one unremarkable season here.
Basketball
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