Word: mawkish
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...respect, even among people who not long ago were damning or disparaging him. Last week the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, once ferociously anti-Nixon though pro-Ike, editorially conceded it might have been wrong in thinking that the country would get "awfullv tired" of the "mawkish" and "disagreeably pushing" Vice President: "Some better stuff in Nixon than we recognized took command . . . With iron discipline, he seems to have dedicated himself to quiet, patient and unseen aid and comfort to his chief and his party . . . Perhaps in the end it will be generally conceded that the President knew his man when...
...Paris before the revolution, of actors and street entertainers. Arletty is an actress named Garrance, mediocre in her theatrical skill, but inordinately wise in the ways of people and of love. One feels at times that her strange love affair with Barrault, the great mime Baptiste, would be mawkish and unbelievable if both artists were not so expert, and if the direction were not perfect. It is quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands waiting for him. To follow...
Indecent Exposure. Some of those approached decided they were unable to whip up their beliefs in handy, non-controversial form for delivery in 3½ minutes of radio time. Wrote Novelist Kathleen Norris in refusing: "It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure." But an impressive cross-section of U.S. opinion did respond. Excerpts...
These are some of the reasons why most religious novels are dull or mawkish. The author's embarrassment shows up in the way he fidgets about in the shallow end of his narrative pool, or the wild high-dives he takes into the deep. Sometimes he tries to avoid these extremes by holding on to the guardrail and pulling himself around the edges, often out of his depth, but never going under...
...picture concerns the chemist's search for a job in a textile firm and subsequent explosive experiments in the research laboratory. After Guinness thinks he has perfected the material, the film bogs down when the boss' saccharine daughter (Joan Greenwood) falls for him and wheezes her way through a mawkish, one-sided love affair...