mawkishness

It is hard to imagine how this story could escape mawkishness.

Into such a merciless vision, mawkishness returns with the force of the repressed.

I think it's very good, albeit ruined a little bit by the network mawkishness at the end of every episode.

Considering this capacity for mawkishness, the film is remarkably understated and ultimately moving.

The Adagio, in particular, was taken at a pace brisk enough to avoid the danger of mawkishness.

On the other hand, the playwright creates expeditious scenes that end well before mawkishness can set in.

It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.

His tale of lost children is, among other things, amazingly free of mawkishness or sentimentality.

Charges of mawkishness aside, he continues not only to see through the men behind the curtain but also to grasp the essentials.

Mawkishness prevails as decades pass so this annoying man can develop into a hero who fights for his school's music program.

This film squeezes most of the mawkishness out of the book's canned lessons about living and dying.

Literary critics may mock the book's mawkishness.

His book is riveting and patriotically stirring without ever slipping into mawkishness or sentimentality.

In her Schubert group especially, she sang with a charming old-fashioned sentimentality that stopped well short of mawkishness.

The programs still trade in mayhem and mawkishness, in the five boroughs and beyond.

The mawkishness is another matter.

Oprah Winfrey was in charge of mawkishness.

Carefully written to avoid sentimentality or mawkishness.

He found Miss Christie's writing "of a mawkishness and banality which seem to me literally impossible to read."

The work's tendency toward mawkishness, always a problem, is compounded (and intentionally, judging by the syrupy background music).

His work, while remaining formal, avoided the mawkishness of the former and the attitudinising of the latter.

The film wisely avoids mawkishness, but a tragi-comedy about paralysis will need all the help it can get.

Usually he scorned what he called mawkishness.

"I'm not above modifying my opinions," he told her, "i dislike mawkishness.

His criticism centered on "Ballerina" for its mawkishness and lack of interest in some of the faster songs.