mawkishness
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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 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
But, as much as he tried to make the Broadway musical "cinematic", such as using flashbacks, it defeated him, replacing cynicism with mawkishness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2014
He was fundamentally normal—fundamentally wholesome—with no trace of mawkishness in his nature.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
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