He used emotion sparingly, and powerfully never maudlin or overwrought, but evocatively and profoundly.
Azazel Jacobs directed this maudlin yet feel-nothing feature, which risks giving independent filmmaking a bad name.
It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke.
And as one might have expected, "Titanic, " James Cameron's maudlin megahit movie, is being rereleased in 3-D, of course.
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Sometimes it doesn't work, as in the maudlin "Please Don't Call It Love, " with its weepy, sleepy violin.
There are illuminating encounters with Nixon at times depressed, maudlin and self-involved and with J.
It all had a very ironic pop sensibility or was very maudlin.
Filming on location in California, Lupino turns the potentially maudlin material into a searing, deep, trenchantly mature study in the dissolution of a personality.
This turbulent and grim family melodrama, from 1957, is steered away from the maudlin and given emotional depth and philosophical heft under the direction of Yasujiro Ozu.
"She was also under pressure to ask her husband back to the house for Christmas dinner and all of that was making him more and more maudlin and anxious, " he said.
Out of his maudlin herding after rogues and mountebanks there comes to him a sense of vast and mysterious power which is what makes archbishops, police sergeants, the grand goblins of the Ku Klux and other such magnificoes happy.
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