mawkishness
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Where Waititi once brought an authentic ache to his bittersweet sagas of wayward souls, he’s resorted to sledgehammer mawkishness that’s meant to be offset by his droll humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
After a tragedy “Parked” collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney’s dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Far from it; he is as high and as keen, as removed from softness and mawkishness, as ascetic and as reverential, as any bishop among them.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
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