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

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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
The film does wisely refrain from becoming sugary or mawkish, at least, and the strong array of supporting characters is another substantial point in its favor.
It is simply their attempt to screw some extra cash out of people by using mawkish good taste music and pictures of babies in outsized hats.
A refined girl would never put herself in a position requiring such drastic measures; but it is, I think, to these reckless young wretches, and a few silly, sentimental simpletons who permit themselves to be drawn into a mawkish correspondence with perfect strangers, that we really owe the continued existence of the stage-door "masher," who wishes to be mistaken for a member of the Stage Confidences
He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face.
Her answer - 'through love' - replaced what should have been ethical reflection with mawkish anti-intellectualism. Times, Sunday Times
His blues are powerful without being mawkish, his jazz adept and tasteful, his funk chops always an example to others.
This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.
This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment.
Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.
Even its detractors, one of whom called the book "mawkish" and poorly written, conceded the book has had an enormous influence, and it did so by virtue of its sincerity. Politics Daily
Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’.
I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type.
Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental.
Perhaps the mawkishness and jingoism of the popular culture prevailing in those days is as distasteful as the shallowness of our own.
This is a refreshingly lively episode of a show that can become mawkish. Times, Sunday Times
His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
the violinist played that piece mawkishly
A mawkish exercise, but one that everyone enjoys - to step about this cluttered suburb like a daytime ghost.
The following poems largely avoid anything mawkish or pietistically simple, or on the other hand too gloomy or gruesome; they are all good literature.
His first press conference after the scandal was widely mocked for his mawkish scripted apologies to family and fans. Times, Sunday Times
It's difficult to describe the plot of film without making it sound hokey and mawkish.
There were no mawkish sentimental outpourings, but you knew they were glad to have him back safe and sound. The Sun
It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions.
Professor, "mawkish" doesn't even begin to describe it. Live-blogging the Oscars.
The ensuing tale of innocence lost is inherently mawkish, but this is leavened by bracing humour and good performances. Times, Sunday Times
Meukow's foul, gilded, sour vanilla, mawkish chocolate and rotting tropical fruit salad-spiked Black Panther bottle was so feral that I only just reached the spittoon in time.
Yes, the holiday season is here complete with kiddie fodder that is virtually unwatchable for anyone over the age of 10 and mawkish slush about the joy of the family.
Molasses-slow, set off by brushes and a disconsolate bass ostinato, her dramaturgy is shimmering and tragic without seeming mawkish.
But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there.
It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim.
There's another trope that pops up with some frequency to do the same work, only instead of focusing on the trauma experienced by individual soldiers, it peddles a kind of mawkish brotherhood-between-soldiers as the greater moral good in war. Kick Him, Honey
This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
I had felt uneasy about the interview, in that it all seems a bit mawkish, a bit nosy, as if there is a terrible need to pry into a life, and celebrate that life at the same time, never being quite sure of the balance.
Ironically, it is these mawkish , calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.
Dripping with sincerity, it descends into mawkish mush with all the profundity of a group hug.
While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much.
If we see a member of the church of Christ living in obedience to the 'law of Christ,' we say he is a Christian, and speak of him as such; on the other hand, if we know he is in works denying Christ, being disobedient, we tacitly assume that he is not a Christian, yet a mawkish charity keeps us, in too many instances, from speaking out in this matter, and also keeps us from earnestly trying to distinguish the true Christian; and this is one of the great sins of the church in our times, for thus the wicked are not put to shame, and others are caused to hesitate in their graces by the conduct of those whom, in mawk charity, are called Christians. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.
There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
Marks Playhouse, in the East Village, and specialized in mawkish narratives whose sweetness was intended to soften, if not disguise, the ideology at the company's core.
'Frisco Kid's Story" (Aegis, 15 February 1895) is mawkish and sentimental, a lesson in bathos and in how not to handle dialect (that is, by employing an abundance of it). The woe of an aspiring genius.
A mawkish sentimentality appeared, just as it did after the death of Diana. Times, Sunday Times
What follows from here is unbridled mawkishness interrupted by some slapstick comedy.
His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
It was satirical, mawkish, groaningly punny - and incredibly funny. Times, Sunday Times
But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
You have written about this so affectionately and without a hint of the mawkish which is a difficult balance, I find. People Collection
Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
Way back when beards were in, mawkish mystics brought forth the concept album.
This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful. Tuesdays With Morrie: Summary and book reviews of Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.
But since every book is acted out in the readers' imagination, a Welshman could claim that Mrs. Rupa Mehra, the mulish, mawkish mother in Seth's novel, was his own mother-in-law.
The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality.
Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either. Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
I hope that that song doesn't sound too much like that kind of mawkish Christian rock song. Belle And Sebastian: On 'Love' And Faith
But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
The minute the mercury soars, red wines, especially big reds, start to turn volatile and taste soupy and mawkish.
Genuine love must combine tenderness and a certain firmness—otherwise, it will lose its inner soundness and resilience, and turn into sterile sloppiness and mawkishness.
I did not want this story to be in any way mawkish or sentimental. Times, Sunday Times
And tenderness, toobut does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life? Beyond Life
I want to be informed, entertained and thrilled by these pioneers, not bored and nauseated by mawkish and self-regarding metaphors.
It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day.
An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response.
Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.
Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.
A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too.
The tone, which veers from slapstick comedy to mawkish melodrama, is as volatile as nitroglycerine.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel [sic] and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics

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