mawkishness

1 But the lachrymal tween fanbase still needs feeding, hence the godawful mawkishness of Fall, with all its guff about angels who forgot to fly.

2 Will the delicate touch that has scored so effectively with viewers and Emmy voters be abandoned for mawkish valedictions?

3 Throughout “We Were Here” there is not a hint of mawkishness, self-pity or self-congratulation.

4 Based on the 2005 bestselling book, Marley & Me had the potential to come across as a mawkish tale of puppy love, but instead is told as a heartwarming story of friendship, loss, and letting go.

5 It’s likely that no one needs to hear another chorus of “Tomorrow,” but Ms. Swickle renders it with a laudable lack of mawkishness.

6 You know Fox News pundits are desperate when they resort to this level of mawkishness about veterans.

7 a mawkish plea for donations to the charity

8 These public efforts bring authenticity to the play but also permission to explore its frank humanity without mawkishness.

9 Ed refused to spoon Bob, and his gentle and emancipated soul would surely rebuff mawkish kindness.

10 There’s some sadness and tears, but never pity or mawkishness.

11 If that means that “The Prom” trades in some of the same cheesy mawkishness it satirizes, that’s O.K.

12 The Alcott verses, with their references to “Christmas fairies” and “chanting cherubs,” supply most of the mawkishness.

13 Thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

14 And their individual fantasies are acted out in vignettes, which often assume the style of the classic silent comedies of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, and sometimes descend into sticky mawkishness.

15 Though speechifying and mawkishness are thankfully scarce, the bland script gives her few chances to go beyond the expected formula.

16 The emperor made his entrance to the blaring mawkishness of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” and actually hugged a large American flag, while grinning ear to ear.

17 Such little detours add a lighthearted gloss to a delicate film that steers clear of preaching or of slipping into mawkishness.

18 Ms Kilalea sketches this sad, slightly surreal situation without mawkishness or morbidity.

19 The struggle is between form and mawkishness; in the end, Ms. Whelan lets her hair loose and whips her head and arms as she exits.

20 Among the many small personalities, one man follows only the ideal of mercy, and as his mercy has not in it the stern stuff of justice, it degenerates into mawkishness and sentimental humanitarianism.

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