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19 examples of Mawkish in a sentence

It may have some long-term significance as a snapshot of 1950s US thinking, but there is little else to commend in the mawkish storyline, wooden acting and grating style.
A fine young cast is wasted in this empty, mawkish, manipulative film that tries to be a combination of both a cute comedy and an insightful drama.
Angel-A is a change of pace for Besson; monochrome, mawkish and rather mediocre.
The film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality.
It is a rare and fine spectacle, an allegory of death and transfiguration that is neither preachy nor mawkish.
Very outdated film with awful, cliché-ridden and mawkish dialog and a very poor construction.
I found it maudlin, mawkish and minor.
It's mawkish, unnecessarily manipulative and dodges many of the big issues - ie Nash's affairs and his predilection for having sex with men in public places.
To me, Son de Mar is beautiful to SEE, but there's precious little substance, unless mawkish, melodramatic, manipulative love yarns turn you on.
Probably encouraged by admirers of her much-better "Orlando", Potter here delivers a vehicle for herself in the worst way: she writes, directs, stars, and actually co-writes the music, including a mawkish love song.
It's a little bit more mawkish and sentimental than Serling's version.
The mawkish sentimentality that ensues is unbearable.
Of course, while this is consistently amusing and funny, what we're mostly left with toward the end are the platitudes of mawkish sentimentality, of "rekindling the love we lost" that seem to always hobble the comedy of even the most outrageous of premises, as if the premise has been exhausted enough and becomes more of an "endearing love story" than a convivial comedy... Why is that?
While some of these characters lived, others were created to suit the mawkish tendencies of the producer, writer and director.
Apart from the music being a little too mawkish than was really necessary, this is another Mike Leigh classic to add to his ever growing reputation as Britain's finest film-maker.
All the best films now tend not to be so mawkish, making The Living and The Dead seem like a bad student project from the 1970s.
THIS is the film Jerry Lewis should have made his min-comeback with instead of the mawkish "Hardly Working".
I detest slapstick and even as a child I could never understand why an audience laughed when people got poked in the eye (the unspeakable Three Stooges), fell down (the mawkish, tiresome Charlie Chaplin), or ran into and destroyed things (the ineffable Ritz Brothers).
Pierron, in spite of his mawkish face, struck his daughter Lydie, because she had left the cutting before time.