maudlins

If a few depressive maudlins feel they can find better sci-fi provender elsewhere, then go with God.

LOSTCasts 53: Catch-22 2007

From these maudlins, to which the most strong-minded occasionally gave way, we gladly sought refuge in amusements, -- such as theatres and balls.

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848