mawkishnesses in a sentence

Examples

1. But the mood was bulldozed quickly by the mawkishness of the " Fledermaus"
2. The movie never dips into easy " Touched by an Angel " mawkishness.
3. "The Lovely Bones " is a sweet novel that resolutely shuns mawkishness.
4. Director Michael Lehman does little to deflect it, so the movie consistently dices with mawkishness.
5. And you have to avoid mawkishness.
6. An even smaller minority reacted violently against what they saw as the mawkishness of public sentiment.
7. Eastwood risks embarrassment flirting with material this naked in its mawkishness, then jumps right in.
8. But The Lovely Bones is a moving novel that manages an affirmative spirit without descending into mawkishness.
9. On the other hand, the playwright creates expeditious scenes that end well before mawkishness can set in.
10. "Twisted " seesaws between this kind of mawkishness and harsh scenes of sexually-edged brutality.