James Newton Howard wrote the thunderous and lachrymose score the weakest element in the movie.

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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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Would it have become even more lachrymose?

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But on the whole the lachrymose representative from Ohio is a steady, straight-talking, country club sort of Republican, chummy with lobbyists, free of pretension, who worked happily enough with Democrats on George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.

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