"lachrymose" is a valid and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective which means "sad, tearful, or given to tears." Example sentence: She was known for her lachrymose stage performances, always performing with tears in her eyes.
You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge.
Glenn Beck, a lachrymose Fox News pundit, turned Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" into an unlikely bestseller earlier this year.
But on the whole the lachrymose representative from Ohio is a steady, straight-talking, country club sort of Republican, chummy with lobbyists, free of pretension, who worked happily enough with Democrats on George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.Mr Gingrich, a walking, talking, and sometimes dangerously undisciplined ideological fireworks display, was a different species of politician altogether.
"It felt like an old boys' club," says Ms Evans who had to use personal contacts, too, to get the government's attention.Fond, but not in loveWhen the EU and IMF delegations arrived in Dublin for bail-out talks last November, the Irish Times ran a lachrymose editorial asking if this was what the national heroes of the 1916 Easter Rising had died for.
This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit.
Costumed first in tight white dresses, then in billowing white skirts and ruffs, the girls are poised and seem genuinely abused rather than lachrymose, as Cordelia usually is, or serpentine, as Goneril and Regan are so often portrayed.For Mr Dodin, the basic conflict is contained in the battle between the old and the young.
Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief.
When Jana Novotna, a lachrymose Czech tennis star, won the ladies singles at Wimbledon in 1998, she did so with Skoda emblazoned on her shirtsleeves.
Thus verse for children, a medium specially cultivated in Latin America, has run to the soft, the sweet, even the lachrymose rather than to the gay, the humorous, or the sanguine moods more congenial to the child's sensibility.
And while she had shrugged off ridicule on such occasions as her setting up a public morals squad (the "chastity commission" of popular parlance) or, prude though she was, her enlisting the help of Louis XV's mistress, Mme de Pompadour, in order to obtain the French alliance, the accusation of "lachrymose hypocrisy" raised in foreign courts during the Polish affair distressed her.
Show Empathy for BOTH sides!" This may explain why a number of Israeli spokesman are almost lachrymose about the plight of Palestinians being pounded by Israeli bombs and shells.
