Sentences with word «lachrymose»

There are scenes here that make the most lachrymose TV movie weepie seem restrained by comparison.

Director Todd Haynes may have made his name with a series of sly, sublime, and pop - savvy New Queer Cinema profiteroles like Poison, Velvet Goldmine, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, but in recent years he's resurrected the forgotten genre of what Old Hollywood called «women's pictures»: lachrymose melodramas in which glamorous ladies struggle... read more

The Jewish fight for survival, struggle for emancipation, and a shared lachrymose conception of history were adopted as better ways to express Jewish identity.

Big, lachrymose flash - forwards bedevilled the end of Atonement, too, but rivers of tears pouring down clumpy facial prosthetics are a ruinous step beyond.

The Netflix series turns him into a kind of omnipresent, lachrymose host played with deadpan, note - perfect solemnity by Patrick Warburton.

Yes, «Gun Kata» ranks on the same level as «bending the bullet» for sheer preposterousness, but they're a welcome respite from the rest of the movie's ponderous attempts at gravity and Bale's lachrymose moping.

Certainly some of the greatest films in history boast memorable scenes of lachrymose intensity that never fail to elicit tears from the viewer.

This biting, irreverent wit takes a backseat in the film's lachrymose third act, one that fully embraces the genre's conventions in such a way that is a detriment to the pleasures of its first two acts.

Spot also, in the film's most lachrymose moment, shares its (his?)

But even within the film's locked - down symmetries (which replace Wong Kar - wai's usual lachrymose voiceover as a structuring device), every shot remains a quietly ravishing event.

As Jeremy Lewison notes in his essay for the accompanying catalogue, «Unlike many of her social realist contemporaries... Neel skillfully avoided lachrymose sentiment and political hysteria....

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He has too much past (a lachrymose career among the middleweights of short money and much punishment) and he does not have enough future.

Lachrymose.

Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish - American violinist who forgets all about his friends and family in his rise to fame.

They're using the pacing and the lachrymose visuals to get us inside Linda's head, giving us a sense of how she saw the world as it closed in on her: the loneliness, the ever - slowing pace of a life ebbing.

Though the film's lachrymose gist is conveyed with subtlety and insight into the rigors of loneliness and mortality, it is lachrymose nonetheless.

But this is no lachrymose Dickensian tale of morality, instead it shoots for a droll view of gangs of thieves battling for the heart (and money) of Victorian London.

Its vocabulary is less arcane, minus words such as «lachrymose» and «obsequious» that students tended to memorize and then forget.

, advocacy director at the National Education Association, ignored the data and went for the lachrymose,

And American Federation of Teachers leader Randi Weingarten, going for the lachrymose, snatched a couple of human shields — I mean young children — from the crowd and proclaimed, «These kids, this is why we do what we do.»

Kim Anderson, advocacy director at the National Education Association, ignored the data and went for the lachrymose,