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
These public efforts bring authenticity to the play but also permission to explore its frank humanity without mawkishness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 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
They have borne every trial to which they have been subjected with more than Spartan, with old-English fortitude, the fortitude that existed before mawkishness and mock sentiment had made men maudlin.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
