This may sound mawkish, but it's not.

Beloved Sunny, if it wouldn't sound mawkish, I'd say that meeting you has been the high point of my life so far.

Jeffrey hated to sound mawkish, but where there was life, there was hope.

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

Vik Bansal from musicOMH referred to "Blackbird" as the album's "pièce de résistance" and stated, "An eight-minute paean to a lost loved one, it never comes close to sounding mawkish and instead counterpoints an ascendant tune with doomy, emotionally-charged riffs that somehow create a general sense of uplifting."

It sounds so mawkish.

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