mawkish

How To Use mawkish In A Sentence

• And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life? Beyond Life
• Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
• You have written about this so affectionately and without a hint of the mawkish which is a difficult balance, I find. People Collection
• But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
• It was satirical, mawkish, groaningly punny - and incredibly funny. Times, Sunday Times
• There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
• Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
• Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
• His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
• What follows from here is unbridled mawkishness interrupted by some slapstick comedy.