mawkish

Now, before we become mawkish let's go down to the others and eat.

In fact, some passages can only be described as mawkish.

I am not saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse.

It came out without thought, and sounded mawkish in his own ears.

Not mawkish, it is the strongest element of the game.

Matthew came by her, and held open the door to the small room with a mawkish bow.

She did, though she turned out some mawkish writing, too.

And even in this least mawkish of series, there is an emotional payoff.

That leads to a speech and a slightly mawkish ending.

But that simply made it a somber circus, even a mawkish one.

Given this subject matter, her dance could easily have been mawkish or hysterical.

Balanchine had his mawkish ventures, and this is one of them.

Mawkish videos are legitimate triggers for a show of feeling.

I take it that no mawkish sentiments complicate this relationship?

But love, which he has in abundance for these movies, turns him mawkish and dull.

But the children are so natural that they prevent the film from becoming mawkish or coy.

More typically, her presence adds a sentimental, even mawkish aura.

It was a basic motive, almost simple, that would have sounded mawkish if spoken.

Near the end, when she videotapes the statue, her conclusions are mawkish and obvious.

Charles, of course, hates that phrase; he says it's mawkish.

His reasons for preventing Isabel from leaving him were certainly not of a mawkish romantic nature.

He was astonished at its religious tone, which seemed to him neither mawkish nor sentimental.

This could have easily come across as mawkish.

Laura was not mawkish about dead animals, but at this moment the corpse made her shiver.

I know that some people found the Jack/Christian moment to be mawkish and sentimental.