What remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity. |
You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge. |
Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief. |
The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo. |
The priest comes along dandling his charge as if it were a lachrymose infant he was endeavouring to put into a good humour. |
This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit. |