Word: mawkish
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...Next to the curse of useless tempters like yourself, the greatest curse upon us is the failure of our Intelligence Department. If only we could find out what He is really up to! Alas, alas, that knowledge, in itself so hateful and mawkish a thing, should yet be necessary for Power! Sometimes I am almost in despair. All that sustains me is the conviction that our Realism, our rejection (in the face of all temptations) of all silly nonsense and claptrap, must win in the end. Meanwhile, I have you to settle with. Most truly do I sign myself...
...made recently of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Alban Berge's Violin Concer-to bring to this country for the first time in permanent form two of the greatest works by two of the greatest modern composers. For those who have known Schoenberg only through an early work--the mawkish puddle of Post-Romantic sentimentality known as Verklarte Nacht--the recording of Peirrot Lunaire demands a re-estimation of his true greatness--and weakness...
...Free Press did not promise to support the President "in the mawkish sense of the sloganeer who mouths meaninglessly 'Stand by the President.' " Wrote Publisher Knight-also publisher of the Akron Beacon-Journal (Independent) and the Miami Herald (Democratic): "From time to time the Free Press proposes to speak quite as vigorously about the shortcomings in our national defense policies as does Lord Beaverbrook in his London Daily Express. This is no time to use a feather duster when a club may be needed...
...feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests Ike. . . . And Moe, turning from the practice piano, answers, 'You got something there. Big Boy.' " Comparatively restrained in his disapproval was Manhattan Minister Dr. Edgar Franklin Romig, who recently described the song as "mawkish," was promptly taken to task by the Jackson (Miss.) News. Said the News...
...almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always in danger of seeming preposterous, Cinemactor Hunter manages to be natural and supernatural at the same time, compassionate without becoming mawkish...