Word: mawkish
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There is nothing in the least mawkish or sentimental about the picture or the Dionnes. They are left to act as entirely natural as possible and no attempt is made, we are glad to record, to wring sighs and giggles from the audience...
...fame for himself thro' the gift he inherited? not of his own doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote a flimsy little Narcissus, later called it "nasty" but still thrilled to hear people whistle it in the streets. His most famed work, The Rosary, was written to a mawkish poem by a redoubtable California drinker and poker-player named Robert Cameron Rogers. Though The Rosary sold less than 100,000 copies from its publication in 1898 until its composer died, its total sales reached...
...believe that such mawkish sentimentality and lack of knowledge as expressed in this editorial comment is of any value to the nation. These Negroes are of a type that are better off "never born." They stand as "nuisance criminals or feeble-minded paupers in the body-politic...
...class has status" and that "status consists in class-soliarity and class-feeling," what can you expect from the "class" for which these men in general speak? Where is the solidarity of a group which finds expression in phrases ranging from the impassioned idealism of Mr. Poor, through the mawkish benevolence of Mr. Smith, to the sullen bitterness of Mr. Sweetser, the disgust of Mr. Bach, and the hard-boiled cruelty of Mr. Scott? One might feel that this diversity was simply the fecundity of health if it were not that in every case the atmosphere is strained...
...Lost Horizon" is a distinctive and original novel, in which are blended, with peculiarly happy results, fantasy, allegory, whimsicality, and a pathos that is neither mawkish nor morbid. To tell the story of "Lost Horizon" would be wellnigh impossible, and extremely injudicious, for Hilton's telling leaves nothing to be desired. His characters are vivid, notably Conway, a youngish Englishman, whose exceptional talents the war effectively prevented from materializing...