Maudlin in a sentence as an adjective

The design is cheerful without being maudlin, clear without being cluttered.

Sounds like he's getting back to his research; which is good, since maybe it won't be as maudlin and self-indulgent as _I Am A Strange Loop_ was.

These mawkish comments about how the H1-B visa is for foreigners never mentions that these people making maudlin comments are blocking the poor people who could really benefit the most from immigration from immigrating.

Maudlin definitions

adjective

effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"