mawkishness

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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

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

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

If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness.

From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Benson, Arthur Christopher