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How to use lachrymose in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lachrymose? Here are some examples.

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The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo.
On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose.
This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit.
The Stalinist counter-revolution replaced class solidarity against national oppression by lachrymose bourgeois charity toward the unfortunate.
Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief.
You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge.
The yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration.
Examples from Classical Literature
What remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity.
He is the only one who has attempted the lachrymose, the sentimental novel.
The too lachrymose Madonna in terra-cotta, 256, already ushers in the decadence.
The priest comes along dandling his charge as if it were a lachrymose infant he was endeavouring to put into a good humour.
His tone had never been so lachrymose, nor his face so full of woe.
But women must beware of sham emotion and lachrymose sentimentality.
Then it had cried out once, and so remained ever lachrymose and in agony.
For Servius, who is timid and lachrymose, everything has gone astray.
Besides, the expression of her face was lachrymose in the extreme.
She had, I fancy, expected to find her in a lachrymose state.
To characterise the Australian culture of death in the bush as unsentimental is to overlook the lachrymose character of many bush ballads and poetry.
Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.
Buckley, proud and lachrymose, was so emotional during the immediate post-race period that he could not speak when a TV microphone was shoved in front of him.
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