As they try to deal with their feelings, the show threatens to turn maudlin.

A plot like this has many opportunities to turn maudlin, but "A Perfect World" remains remarkably free of sentimentality.

Fearing they would turn maudlin, I leaped out of tent and yelled, "Surprise!

The boisterousness and energy with which he presented this idea saved it from turning maudlin.

She went immediately, and not to please him-once he started brooding on his injury, he turned maudlin.

The emotions wrought by the book are as strong as those of the program, rarely turning maudlin.

But whenever the picture tries to be about something bigger, it turns predictable or maudlin or, in a few sad instances, both simultaneously.

But Ms. Williams is too blithely gawky to turn maudlin.

In "First Light," however, his angular language has turned maudlin and flabby.

True, the situation might trigger memories of a lost friend, but swift action was required lest it turn maudlin.