mawkish

1 In contrast, the inner sections have a strange melancholy – in the Adagio, a sorrowful string tune and mawkish oboe solo, in the Allegretto a subdued waltz.

2 So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting.

3 And yet, despite television ads that look alternately wacky and mawkish and suggest pat, glossy superficiality, "Hope Springs" unearths some quiet and often uncomfortable truths.

4 Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned.

5 There's a place for mawkish nostalgia and sentimentality, too, thus Gladys Knight's The Way We Were.

6 Heffernan, who worships at the figurative altar of the Old Masters, continues to strike me as a little mawkish, but her chops are undeniable.

7 But the tale never descends into mawkish nostalgia.

8 The film’s tone becomes mawkish, akin to a Lifetime movie that flaunts a little bite before it wallows in melodrama.

9 Avoiding the mawkish is an under-celebrated Beach Boys song, Santa's Beard, about the visit to the department store of a little boy, "only five and a half, going on six".

10 The songs teeter between revealing and mawkish, and as on many long-burgeoning albums, the production grows overbearing.

11 As “Pow” quietly jumps from scene to scene, the order seems interchangeable as moments — some singular, others more mawkish — threaten to swallow the greater whole.

12 Where many see a heartwarming modern classic full of good old American values, others see a mawkish, manipulative baby-boomer fairy tale.

13 A little bit hunched, hobbled by cardigan socks and shoes, Guillem wonderfully embodies her character's awkwardness without being remotely mawkish or patronising.

14 Mr. Cooper doesn’t shy away from the borderline comedic lunacy of Uday, with his toothy grin and his mawkish attachment to his mother.

15 But not all the actors thrive under this sympathetic and ultimately mawkish approach: Mr. Pang is a neat sketch in hypocrisy, but Ms. Tan’s calamitous Michelle just never adds up.

16 But the mix of the glib and the mawkish is really just the movies reflecting the world outside the cinema.

17 The tone of “Knife Fight” is mean until the movie flips a switch and turns pious and mawkish as Paul tries to make amends for past sins.

18 The dark comedy’s six episodes, all of which Gervais wrote and directed, whiplash between vicious and mawkish.

19 While unbearably sad — but also beautiful — at times, the show is not mawkish or manipulative.

20 It set the tone for a two-hour film that was alternately mawkish and self-indulgent and always – as Lucy seemed a perennially reluctant subject – faintly, distastefully intrusive.

1 令人生厌的

irksome

2 令人作呕

loathy sick sickly nauseous lurid queasy loathsome fulsome loathly disgustful queasily fulsomely chunderous nasty creepy disgusting lousy slimy rancid odious stinking mucky odoriferous loathful gross-out disgust

3 令人作呕的

loathy sick sickly nauseous lurid queasy loathsome fulsome loathly disgustful sick-making offensive gross foul objectionable slimy icky sicken chunderous nasty creepy disgusting lousy rancid odious stinking mucky odoriferous loathful gross-out

4 自怜的

self-pitying

5 恶心

gross nausea sickness revolt nauseate puke be revolted green about the gills

6 恶心的

gross

7 自怜

self-pitying self-pity

8 爱落泪

maudlinism

9 不好吃

foul brackish unpalatable no deal

10 不好吃的

savor savour tasteless brackish unpalatable insipid unsavoury foul

11 感伤

die-away melting sentimental squishy rosewater soft-boiled misty-eyed meltingly sentiment sentimentality heartthrob maudlin schmaltz

12 感伤的

die-away melting sentimental squishy rosewater soft-boiled misty-eyed

13 易感伤的

maudlin soppy

14 伤感

noveletish melting sloppy sentimental misty-eyed novelettish mushily sentiment sentimentality sentimentalize

15 多愁善感

gooey mushy corny namby-pamby goo sentimental sappy sentimentally sentimentality sentimentalism mawkishness soppiness sickliness soft romantic tender sickly slushy soupy soppy soft-centred sentiment emotionalism sloppy sensitivity mush hoky-poky Werterian wet squishy drippy soft-boiled moonstruck lovey-dovey novelettish Wertherism strictly union

16 讨厌

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17 讨厌的

mean nice military rank impossible wet offensive painful horrible ugly nasty unwanted foul brutal fierce grim stink cheerful poisonous undesirable cumbersome dreadful troublesome damned pesky vile obscene lousy hateful obnoxious hideous unwelcome gummy goddamn horrid slimy cursed grating bothersome noxious tiresome nauseous rancid repulsive grisly villainous hellish shrill ungrateful abominable off-putting frightful abhorrent disagreeable brackish ruddy odious accursed beastly blasted goddamned doggone unwholesome irksome mucky damnable execrable confounded ungracious pestilential pestilent importunate pestiferous stinko verminous boresome tarnation accurst hateable plaguesome weariful maledict bally unsonsy ill-favored Nice evil terrible chronic unlikely unpleasant disgusting rotten hairy filthy tacky unfavorable wretched objectionable carrion unsavory yucky mothering loathsome insufferable detestable bawdy pissy elvish motherfucking unlovely noisome unpleasing cumbrous perishing sodding dratted plaguey loathly snuffy disgustful lumbersome loathful naffing cotton-picking sour not very nice

18 无味的

flavor flavour watery milk-and-water

19 感情脆弱的

sloppy sloshy

20 伤感的

noveletish melting sloppy sentimental misty-eyed novelettish maudlin weepy

21 多愁善感的

gooey mushy corny namby-pamby sentimental sappy soft romantic tender sickly slushy soupy soppy soft-centred sloppy hoky-poky Werterian wet squishy drippy soft-boiled moonstruck lovey-dovey novelettish strictly union

22 爱哭的

maudlin lachrymose

23 无味

flavor flavour watery milk-and-water vapidity insipidity wateriness