The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo. |
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On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose. |
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This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit. |
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The Stalinist counter-revolution replaced class solidarity against national oppression by lachrymose bourgeois charity toward the unfortunate. |
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Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief. |
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You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge. |
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The yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration. |
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