| She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin. |
| His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers. |
| Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure. |
| What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker. |
| Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing. |
| Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin. |
