mawkishness
Example Sentences
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But it’s Fraser’s smart, humane, vulnerable performance that too often seems trapped, in this case by a film whose mawkishness so oppressively weighs him down.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
All that signaling serves to diminish the impact of a not unanticipated “shock” denouement that strives for poignancy but ultimately flirts with mawkishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
But where the execution of those storylines has garnered some criticism for moments of mawkishness or overwrought dialogue, it’s more successful in its honest depiction of cancer—or, at least, one specific cancer story.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2015
Heard at the second performance on Wednesday, the score leans on Ms. Higdon’s persistent weaknesses — namely, a tendency toward mawkishness — and stints her gifts for teasing out creative orchestral colors and instrumental combinations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
If a theory be advanced that opens up the Scriptures, and especially the prophecies, better than those before existing, let the pulpit accept it, throwing aside its mawkishness and age-intrenched stupidity.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
