These were, alternately, the Women's Games or, based on the unusually high level of lachrymosity on display on medal stands and fields of play, the Crying Games. |
It has nothing to do with my state of mind at the time or any tendency to lachrymosity. |
But please, can we call a halt to the current orgy of lachrymosity, which is starting to make Tiny Tears look like Steven Seagal? |
Daphnis criticizes not only the duplicity of women but also the self-induced eroticism of lachrymosity. |
And so The Wild Boy is a sad novel, tugging the heartstrings with some of the rhapsodic lachrymosity that felled Little Nell. |
The sneering at Liverpool was itself an abuse, mistaking the city's noble expressions of love, empathy and solidarity as whinging and lachrymosity. |