mawkishness

Example Sentences

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I thought it could fall into mawkishness, and I was a little concerned each time I turned the page.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017

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

Your idealism is admirable, permanent, and shatter-proof; but your starry-eyed schoolgirl's mawkishness is none of the three.

From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)