Sentence examples similar to possibility of mawkishness from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, while watching, I was on guard against the possibility of O'Neill's occasional mawkishness interfacing with Whitaker's.

In the end, this is what saved the concert from mawkishness: the possibility of failure put steel in the atmosphere at Live 8. "Come Monday morning, most people here will have probably forgotten a lot of what was said," said David Smithey, 26, a manager from south London, when it was all over.

There are some moments of mawkishness, especially at the finale.

Large dollops of mawkishness are also thrown in.

It's the only hint of mawkishness.

Throughout "We Were Here" there is not a hint of mawkishness, self-pity or self-congratulation.

Her "Fille aux cheveux de lin" was modest and sweet, free of mawkishness.

Seven years ago, he published a masterly collection of short fiction, "Natasha and Other Stories," strong in its bones, devoid of mawkishness.

Mr. Trintignant and Ms. Riva's portrait of a long-married couple facing death affirms the kind of love that transcends the physical without a trace of mawkishness.

The germs of mawkishness are clearly present in Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1760 67), though offset by a diluted Rabelaisianism and a certain cerebral quality.

But, like everything else in the movie, this is carried off easily without a hint of mawkishness.