mawkish

In the middle of the night … I’m still haunted by this mawkish pileup of gospel signifiers.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, jailed and banned frequently, has never allowed his work get mawkish.

Morgan’s flair for the mawkish would be fine, and maybe even interesting, if he didn’t make the mistake of making the country music industry piles and piles of money.

If that line of reasoning is too mawkish and bleeding-heart for your taste, Worsley makes a more pragmatic argument for a generous, welcoming immigration policy, one unsentimentally rooted in cold dollars and cents.

If that leaves you expecting mawkish sentiment and introspective wallowing, you've not been paying attention.