Sentence examples for mawkish sentimentality from inspiring English sources

Mostly, though, its dramatic arc relies on mawkish sentimentality.

Prone to both mawkish sentimentality and bone-dry wit.

Again, the pitfalls of mawkish sentimentality are neatly avoided.

People who slipped through the education net first time around do not need mawkish sentimentality.

So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality?

It takes rigor and imagination to avoid cultural clichés and mawkish sentimentality.

"They teeter on a knifepoint of mawkish sentimental rot".

And, in moral terms, why should we follow the mawkish nationalist sentimentality of headline writers when they underline (and therefore mourn more) the six Britons among the 350 dead after a disaster.

Too often Ashcroft descends into mawkish over-sentimentality (Life Can Be So Beautiful), empty sloganeering (America), or worse, cod philosophy (literally every other song).

(Lively excerpts from the reviews are included as a special feature in the booklet that accompanied the Decca-London recording in 1966). The main lines of criticism are these: mawkish piety; Victorian sentimentality; regular tunes and predictable harmonies; lack of dramatic backbone.

Bloom's evocation of the perils of the Alaskan wilderness is reminiscent of T.C. Boyle's grim description of the same terrain in his masterful "Drop City". As for the resolution of her quest -- and a mother's search for her little girl could easily grow mawkish -- it avoids sentimentality altogether.