melodramatic, mawkish, bathetic, stagy, overdramatic, maudlin, overlong, stagey, unaffecting, cloying, hackneyed, leaden, lachrymose, overfamiliar, pretentious, overdetermined, treacly, trite, formulaic, pedantic, sappy, ponderous, weepy, hysterical, toneless, elegiac, histrionic, rhapsodic, banal, hokey, hyperbolic, reductive, portentous, schmaltzy, morose, nabokovian, tearjerking, artless, saccharine, declamatory, stilted, sententious, overemotional, unenlightening, breathless, obtuse, perfunctory, turgid, florid, lugubrious, shrill, prolix, unhinged, cliched, unpoetic, dostoevskian, vapid, cheesy, mealymouthed, overindulgent, dissonant, melancholy, unsatisfying, unamusing, dolorous, talky, gushy, mordant, humorless, twee, solipsistic, corny, jejune, piteous, overblown, unfocused, expository, incantatory, mirthless, tremulous, pompous, quavery, scattershot, affectless, hitchcockian, preachy, melancholic, somnambulistic, pantomimic, overripe, vacuous, nonsensical, platitudinous, soporific, bombastic, glib, digressive, hammy, tendentious, uninflected, unentertaining, didactic, apprehensive, strung, overstrained, reticent, distraught, vivacious, awakened, despondent, ebullient, irritable, perplexed, tired, dazed, demented, excitable, fervid, lively, preoccupied, attuned, dejected

agitated, distraught