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 the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

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

Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright