Meanings of maudlin self in English

He stopped fidgeting with the recorder; the mood of maudlin self-pity was over.

A maudlin self-pity, born of alcohol, dimmed Shelby's eyes.

Teetering on the edge of maudlin self-pity, even his normally self-mocking humour threatens to desert him.

There was, he told himself, no room for maudlin self-pity in a curriculum vitae like that.

So it's to be maudlin self-pity, then.

Worse. It staggered drunkenly and stared at him with maudlin self-pity that began to turn to hate.

Ibn al-Arabi imagined the solitary God sighing with longing but this sigh (nafas rahmani) was not an expression of maudlin self-pity.

Paige, astonished to find himself choking with sourceless maudlin self-pity, flung himself out of the Caddy in search of a nose to break.

In his few court appearances since his capture and extradition a year ago, he has wavered between maudlin self-pity, smiling defiance and vague distraction.