lachrymose
IPA: ɫˈækrɪmoʊs
adjective
- Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
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Examples of "lachrymose" in Sentences
- She had a lachrymose friend.
- The plot could be lachrymose.
- Stop inserting unscholarly and lachrymose.
- The first two are long and sincere and lachrymose.
- This article might sound a bit negative and lachrymose.
- Mudrick discusses the conventions of the lachrymose novel.
- Adderley watched them too with a kind of lachrymose interest.
- The romantic leaving at Dryden's tomb is lachrymose and irrelevant.
- By this time, Hurricane Herman is already arriving on Lake Lachrymose.
- We're still getting lachrymose accounts from the Joesph Marshalls of the world.
- I think Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which is an interesting combination.
- The second movement was not taken with its usual lachrymose funeral treatment, but at a very sensible allegretto pace.
- All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly.
- These are somber moments on a solemn quest, and the book, with its repeated explorations of solitude, grief, remembrance and loss is elegiac—lachrymose, even.
- Most of the novel is arrogant and a caricature, yet that's preferable to Mr. Pierre's lachrymose attempts to gin up sympathy for his maladroit hero: Gabriel thinks of his mother, What I wouldn't give to hug her now, that smiling, woolly person.
- He was not only kind-hearted, but very tender-hearted, so that his lips would quiver on occasions and his eyes fill with tears, -- what doctors improperly call a lachrymose nature; but in regard to a question of principle or public necessity he was as firm as Plymouth Rock.
- He is also as tough as nails, whatever the lachrymose breakdown at the Braehead Arena on Sunday might have suggested, and his commitment in pursuing his aim of getting to the top in an era that entertains the two greatest players of all time, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, is total.
- The manner in which the saga has been dealt with in France, by the media and also by political figures, really shines a light on what we already knew was there: unfettered sexism, said de Haas, one of several feminists to find her voice just as France's reaction to the Affaire DSK looked like settling into lachrymose tributes to an alleged attacker and scorn for an alleged victim.