mawkishness
Example Sentences
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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
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
Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.
From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott
