How To Use lachrymose In A Sentence
- Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel? THE IRATE NATION
- Eat, drink, and be merry," he counselled lachrymosely, "for to-morrow we may be married. Married Life The True Romance
- 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. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
- Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
- On such occasions the Beeb's presenters adopt the posture of a keening relative, waxing lachrymosely about the dead woman and her "devastated" relatives. Undefined
- ‘Surely,’ he wrote, ‘it is time to break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.’
- I also noticed that as you were busy lachrymosely explaining how he had no choice but to be a bum who collects bottles for recycling, you found it much easier to be outraged than to in any way acknowledge my point.
- It's not every day that one gets to read the word lachrymose in a letter. 52449_CLARA
- He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
- Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
