Given its diegetic context and its potentiallymaudlinterms, the vehemence of the chorus' expression struck us as noteworthy.
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The text, a curious amalgam of the beautiful and themaudlin, the vivid and the incomprehensible, offers us some possible meanings, but only some.
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It annoys me when sometimes it becomes amaudlin, if not aggressive, chauvinism.
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During the non-serving period the scene inside was moremaudlinmagnified.
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It was a compassionate speech, without beingmaudlin.
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I am perplexed and worried that there may be too muchmaudlinsentiment.
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In the mostmaudlinof words, almost in tears, he ended his peroration by saying that this country will survive.
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First, it makes many the songsmaudlinand melodramatic, occasionally unbearable.
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The play could have been sentimental, evenmaudlin.
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The moment is transformed frommaudlinto poignant.
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Reviews were universal in acclaim for the flying scenes but the mundane plot andmaudlincharacterizations were also noted.
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What had been fun and frothy turns irretrievablymaudlin.
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It has a brand of caustic wit that somehow surmounts situations that are a blend of soap operamaudlinand ribald coarseness.
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He was an original composer, lessmaudlin, less cloyingly sentimental and less clich-ridden than his contemporaries.
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They are unromanticized and low-key performances that only rarely spill over into themaudlinand righteous.
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