mawkishnesses in a sentence

Examples

1. Cullum's strapping presence gave the original production a backbone, and the cutting clarity of his singing voice held the mawkishness in check.
2. Gary Lennon's screenplay is tough-minded enough to avoid a disease-of-the-week mawkishness that the theme invites.
3. The actor and his director, Michael Warren Powell, try to convey the disease's life-threatening capacity without lapsing into mawkishness.
4. The work's tendency toward mawkishness, always a problem, is compounded ( and intentionally, judging by the syrupy background music ).
5. If " The West Wing " is loaded with realism undercut by mawkishness, " Amy " turns that pattern upside down.
6. He emphasizes that the style of the story must be " admirably satiric, ironic " to avoid any hint of mawkishness or self-pity.
7. Parker handles the chemotherapy scenes with a minimum of mawkishness : " They said he'd lose his appetite during the sessions and he did.
8. But as the cool sarcasm of its opening scenes slides inexorably toward the mawkishness of its denouement, " Dream With the Fishes " loses steam.
9. Although much of the movie's tone was developed as it was rehearsed and shot, Salles knew from the first he could not slide into mawkishness.
10. The nine stories in " Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage " brim with emotion and pathos, but never once deteriorate into mawkishness.