mawkishness

Example Sentences

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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

Together with Lafosse’s intimate direction and the film’s lack of a score, this helps “The Restless” avoid any mawkishness that might have come from its premise.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

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

Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright