(1) An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response.

(2) Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentalityu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.

(3) No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish , voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill.

(4) His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish .

(5) I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish , overly sentimental type.

(6) Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality.

(7) It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim.

(8) While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much.

(9) Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental.

(10) Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged.

(11) This, I hope, won't sound mawkish , but the poems strike me as gentler too.

(12) It is a sentimental, even mawkish , language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions.

(13) Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhoodu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.

(14) But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.

(15) The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality.

(16) There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.

(17) This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment.

(18) But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?

(19) But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish , sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there.

(20) This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.