Sentence examples for almost mawkish from inspiring English sources

But some blandly tonal passages seemed almost mawkish, at least on first exposure.

A frequent result is an almost mawkish after-school banality and the sense of an artist in transition.

Musicians from a few different punk-related genres are exploring therapy rock: the up-and-coming "emo" genre, which features hyperdramatic, almost mawkish rock delving deeply into personal upheaval; rap-metal, an aggressive hybrid that has lately turned more introspective; and pop-punk, a slick version of punk that's deceptively up-tempo and not generally noted for its profundity.

My friend Gay Bilson, one of Australia's greatest cooks, says that the first time she cut open a mangosteen and tasted a segment, she "burst into tears at the sheer perfection of it, almost pushed to mawkish poetry".

And actually, the producers smoothed over the question with almost all the sentimental excess that Mr. Lewis is famous for, while leaving out mawkish references to "Jerry's Kids".

A last stop at the other Tate, Tate Britain (now the Avis of Tates) for a retrospective of Stanley Spencer, who despite unevenness at his best-made paintings and drawings that almost make you forget the mawkish biography.

But maybe Coldplay's mawkish rendition says more about MCA's achievement as an artist than Coldplay's bad taste.

Almost all Victorian stained glass is terrible: dull in colour, mawkish in mood, grey and melancholy in effect.

AIDS had become sentimentalized, and to write about it was to risk venturing into mawkish or emotionally manipulative territory.

Rarely straying from its mission of presenting the mawkish, the corny, the over-the-top and the just plain awful, it was a museum whose collection was almost too bad to be true.

Having a charismatic murderer as your protagonist is an inversion of the traditional primetime hero; Tony Soprano has made that identity more his own, but where The Sopranos won many of its fans through its mawkish comedy, poking fun at the banalities of mob life, laughs in The Shield are far less frequent and almost always at someone's expense.