I have been unusually lachrymose since losing my job last year. From LearnThat.org.
I think Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which is an interesting combination. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Most of the songs sound a little lachrymose to me. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
An ill-tempered letter is as great a mistake as a lachrymose one. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
She reads Kant, Schiller, Jean Paul, and a host of lachrymose books. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
But instead, there's Boehner, getting lachrymose all over our TV sets. From Wordnik.com. [No Boehner, No Cry] Reference
"Oh!" groaned the other in a lachrymose way, making a hideous grimace. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Trevelyan was lachrymose, heartbroken, and a sight pitiable to behold. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Perhaps the first is somewhat the better, as being the less lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
He got more and more drunk, and became very maudlin, almost lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
I told someone who didn't like Poe that they were "lachrymose intolerant.". From Wordnik.com. [Breastfeeding while driving... and talking on the cell phone.] Reference
"Gotter leave m 'fambly -- hate ter do it!" and he became very lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
"Was there ever anything more unfortunate?" says Potts, in a lachrymose tone. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Letty, with a lachrymose voice soon after the fate of the family was decided. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
He was not at the widow's, and she found that good but lachrymose woman in tears. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
“We will starve before we get to the end of it,” he said, becoming lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Define these exactly: inquisitorial; lachrymose; laconic; surreptitious; contumely. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
In her dutifully lachrymose description of filming with Henry, one story stands out. From Wordnik.com. [Calamity Jane] Reference
The transcript of her lachrymose performances should be required reading for juries. From Wordnik.com. [Innocents Lost] Reference
Favorite Beatle: Clinton is odd that way, relentlessly sunny and corny and lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [Hoping For Passion] Reference
(Perhaps these realizations are what's really behind this era of lachrymose pachyderms.). From Wordnik.com. [The Prodigal Man] Reference
Rosa's human figures never smile; instead they seem grim, wary, defiant, sullen or lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [Return to the Grim and Dark] Reference
In offscreen life, Rainer hardly fit the image of the lachrymose heroines she often portrayed. From Wordnik.com. [Luise Rainer.] Reference
Ruth had her arms about the little old woman and her own voice was caressing if not lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
How many students remember the lachrymose career of Byron and how few know of his contemporary. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
He knows that we desperately want this, need this, after the lachrymose first half of the film. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Bolotsky: When I Came Home: The Best Iraq Film in a Pool of One] Reference
Thankfully, the younger Rose shares none of Swift's proclivity for the corny and the lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [Caitlin Rose] Reference
PRONOUNCED frame of mind — now lachrymose, now frivolous, now touchy on the very smallest point. From Wordnik.com. [Youth] Reference
All of which the Grinder howled forth in a lachrymose whine, and backing carefully towards the door. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
The old lord, having, by then, drunk a considerable quantity of brandy, sank into a lachrymose state. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
He was similarly reticent when leading in the tie‑break and the moment vanished before his lachrymose eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray looks for top gear in two-week title race] Reference
The first time since the lachrymose Ed Muskie that a candidate's eyes had welled up with tears in New Hampshire. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
She prattles on in a monologue at times lachrymose, at times vicious, at all time wounding, for a full three minutes. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
I loved this it is right up there with corporate network, lachrymose, and deathtraps chris m on 15 Dec 2005 at 11:13 pm. From Wordnik.com. [EP031: Robots and Falling Hearts] Reference
As for Recusant, he is a lachrymose character given to fits and starts, and at present his blog is left largely unattended. From Wordnik.com. [Ms R's Learned Friend] Reference
The lachrymose may need a box of tissues since the theme of the novel is emotional and it is dealt with in an emotional way. From Wordnik.com. [The Shack « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
Suffering through a particularly lachrymose soliloquy, I wished that the theater would catch fire, just to terminate the performance. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
She felt ridiculously like bursting into tears, but Caris, she knew, wasn't the sort of young man who could cope with lachrymose females. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
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