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tear-jerker
/ 藞迟瑟蓹藢诲萧蓽藧办蓹 /
noun
- informal.an excessively sentimental film, play, book, etc
Example Sentences
Murnau鈥檚 鈥淪unrise: A Song of Two Humans,鈥 a 1927 tear-jerker about another killer date where where the on-screen text 鈥淐ouldn鈥檛 she get drowned?鈥 sinks into a murky lake.
For the upcoming tour, he's playing it back-to-back with a new tear-jerker, Northern Lights, that dives even deeper into heartbreak.
Set to Richard Ashcroft's 1990s track Sonnet, the ad is a "real tear-jerker" and suggests the retailer wanted to "return to its roots", analysts said.
And he shows his students a 1935 Bette Davis tear-jerker called 鈥淒angerous,鈥 about an on-the-skids actress who wants to marry the kind man who restored her to health and talent.
The certified tear-jerker, with a reference to Monroe鈥檚 Woods Creek Road, was written for a close relative who died a few years ago, Boone explained from the stage, and made for one of the most potent moments of Friday鈥檚 show.
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