On their own, his latest labor-intensive efforts seem mawkishly sentimental.

He could not help being amused; Rachael had become so mawkishly morose.

I fancy, however, that a mawkishly sentimental legislature will prevent our performing that national service.

In truth, it's a mawkishly sentimental skip through musical theatre that would seem lightweight as an "evening with" television special.

It is marred, however, by songs that editorialize mawkishly about the children's plight (Holden).

The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed.

I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken.

In Bausch's stories, people talk too much, mawkishly repeat themselves and descend to bathos and cliché.

Yet read a review of it and the suggestion is that it is full of mawkishly Victorian sentiment.

The simians had mawkishly converted an orphanage, which once supplied some of his experimental subjects, into a memorial commemorating the.

I thought he would tolerate it, but when his mouth was by my ear, he muttered mawkishly, "Farewell, Beloved."

Mawkishly sentimental."

Forty years ago, the hundreds of late-19th- and early-20th-century monuments that dot the battlefield struck many as mawkishly intrusive.

Formal words of condolence had to be spoken but to his ears they always sounded insincere at best and mawkishly inappropriate at worst.

Yet in "Panther in the Basement," Oz is not mawkishly seeking to make the question of loyalty a relative one.

The envelope contained a note card bearing the face of a Keane child, a sugary nymphet staring mawkishly from a tenement window.

Mr. Finney fixes his crusty, demanding, sometimes mawkishly emotional character right on the line between lovable and impossible.

Finally, a haunting if somewhat mawkishly titled 1978 projection by Peter Campus, in the museum's media gallery, gives humanity the last, if temporary word.

Mr. Stevenson doesn't yearn mawkishly for halcyon days; he doesn't insist that times were better then (though surely they were simpler).

And in Parker's "Faces That We Wear," she mawkishly muses, "If you've been there/You know the truth about the pain behind the smiles."

In one of the film's most blatant bits of satire, a film crew member shot in the line of duty is mawkishly eulogized by his surviving partner.

A nearby shop is mawkishly named Hair by Fairy and The Little Shop of Funkiness sells tableware and trinkets.

All except the gentle, drippy Mary, who works in a clothing store, and Ralph, who proselytizes mawkishly for a spiritual cult, bring an edge of hostility to their relationships.

The featured characters are a female creative team who produce campaigns for a beer brand that veers erratically between self-congratulatory salutes and mawkishly phony portrayals of the beer's customers.

Like "Slumdog Millionaire," the film is uplifting, but, he continues, Unlike "Slumdog," the plot is not mawkishly sentimental and only a little bit contrived.