Ethan Steifel's solo, to Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, is truly affecting, the ragged energy of the dancing capturing a pulse of tragedy without being mawkish.
True, at the start of his leader's speech in Birmingham, Mr Clegg paid mawkish tribute to his party's "grace under fire".
They include Mike Huckabee, a former presidential candidate and ordained Southern Baptist minister, who is prepping for the 2012 election by doing commentary for Fox News and ABC Radio; and of course Sarah Palin, now equipped with a new book and starring in a mawkish TV reality show/travelogue called "Sarah Palin's Alaska".
As a Harvard man, he did not wish to sound mawkish, but nor did he want to upset some of his most devoted supporters.
Ms Hustvedt manages to wring a great deal of pathos from the breakdown of Leo's and Erica's marriage without ever getting mawkish.
Whether these mawkish interludes work as catharsis only the author can tell.
(Your correspondent has blogged before about football's mawkish obsession with the minute's silence).The silence turned out to be a shambles.
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But it was his warm yet rough-edged turn as a widowed psychology professor in "Good Will Hunting" (1997) that finally secured him the award for Best Supporting Actor.It was around this time, though, that he also starred in his most mawkish films: "Jack" (1996), "Patch Adams" (1998), "Jakob The Liar" (1999) and "Bicentennial Man" (1999).
Now unattached to any political group, he still rages against poverty and corruption.Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.
It sounds mawkish, but perhaps not if you are a bullfighter.
