"turn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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