Word: mawkish
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...spent four years assembling the big exhibition, and among the lenders was Queen Elizabeth herself. The artist on view was Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., whose sentimental canvases made him one of the most successful painters of the 19th century. Reversing this judgment, the 20th century has found him monumentally mawkish, and in rehabilitating him with an elaborate show, the academy seemed to be asking: Was Sir Edwin really as bad as all that? The answer...
...prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any." By omitting such touches and emphasizing Wilde's plangent side, and by himself-if often eloquent-being often florid, Mac Liammoir piles Pelion upon Oscar, and turns what he dubs a baroque and rococo story into a rather mawkish and Victorian one. In both men notable showmanship can become mere staginess...
...Butterfly she unveiled last week was, in contrast to her Leonora, a creature that lived on the surface of emotion -tentative, vulnerable but never mawkish. In the last act. when Soprano Price enacted the difficult suicide with a dignity that many a famed soprano is unable to muster, Cio-Cio-San ceased to be a quaintly pathetic figure and became what she rarely isa truly tragic...
...reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded, practical, utilitarian faith-in this singleness of thought." In a mawkish conceit, he added: "Exactly as a little girl sets up a dollhouse for her favorite doll...
...Long Row to Hoe makes no mawkish attempt to glorify poverty, but it is crammed with woods lore and river-rat doings that Billy might well have missed had his family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...