mawkish

How To Use mawkish In A Sentence

• Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality.
• Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’.
• No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill.
• (just getting mawkish again - oooh 6. 30am time for Mrs P's cup of mint tea) 6: 40 AM electro-kevin said ... Waiting For Guido ...
• The stories are so silly and sentimental and mawkish anyway. Times, Sunday Times
• Some extremely powerful scenes drive home the book's themes without resorting to mawkish sentiment or easy emotional button mashing.
• Either plump to excess or excessively lean; either parlously young or portentously old; — the medium is mawkish. — Peer Gynt
• The ensuing tale of innocence lost is inherently mawkish, but this is leavened by bracing humour and good performances. Times, Sunday Times
• Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged.
• His first press conference after the scandal was widely mocked for his mawkish scripted apologies to family and fans. Times, Sunday Times