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

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

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

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)