Word: mawkish
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There are only a few moments, like the one in which Jennie tells about Love while fitting her daughter's high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter...
...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
...Death of Coolidge" is the finest thing of the kind I have ever read. I found it dignified, sympathetic and very moving but not at all mawkish or sentimental...
...pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages to be tender without being mawkish, sympathetic without being sentimental. Good shot: a nurse (Aline MacMahon) telling Sutton what has happened to his wife...
...what some readers will consider the slightly mawkish accents of gratuitous pity Author Salten tells delicate stories of the zoo's inhabitants. To the orangutans Lily and Bobby (their names in the jungle were Yppa & Zato) is born their first child, a male whom they name Tikki. Lily begins to find captivity bearable, but Bobby wants to hold the baby too. When he gets hold of him he will not let him go, plays with him until he begins to starve for mother's milk. Only after Bobby has been drugged with bananas loaded with veronal can Tikki be taken...