mawkish in a sentence

Examples

1. But Ms . Fadiman is not mawkish about them.
2. Hank ( Jeffrey Tambor ) has his mawkish on-air farewell quashed.
3. It was not outlandish or the slightest bit mawkish.
4. Its skewed perspective undercuts all certainties, both mawkish emotions and easy irony.
5. But that simply made it a somber circus, even a mawkish one.
6. There were mawkish, overwrought moments; political pundits pushed their own agendas.
7. A drunk scene, which should be mawkish, is instead nearly heartbreaking.
8. Olmos'melodramatic reading is a match for his character's mawkish writing.
9. This could have easily come across as mawkish.
10. Besides, good ballads that aren't mawkish are hard to come by.