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

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

All his writings, including his delightful letters as well as his poetry, are remarkably free from mawkishness and mere sentimentality.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)