mawkishnesses in a sentence

Examples

1. The horrific film of planes crashing into towers was used minimally and the mawkishness was less extreme than usual.
2. His criticism centered on " Ballerina " for its mawkishness and lack of interest in some of the faster songs.
3. Luke is a natural, with an emotional solidity that offsets the layers of mawkishness with which Washington coats the story.
4. Columbus returns to the scene of a crime _ holiday season mawkishness _ that has been berry, berry good to him.
5. Instead she steers the segment toward mawkishness, heavy-handedly demanding that the viewer feel sorry for Redgrave's character.
6. The gooey results are lifted above mawkishness by sincere performances from Gooding and co-star Ed Harris as his mentoring coach.
7. And she traced the expansive emotional path of Schumann's " Frauenliebe und-leben " movingly and without mawkishness.
8. But the generic-sounding ballad " Love Will Find a Way " presents an even bigger problem than its mawkishness.
9. Mawkishness prevails as decades pass so this annoying man can develop into a hero who fights for his school's music program.
10. It has to walk a fine line of sentimentality, and a misstep can send it collapsing into the worst kind of maudlin mawkishness.