Example sentences for: mawkish

How can you use “mawkish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And if he sometimes wandered into whimsy--that alluring comic swamp--and even farther, into mawkish sentimentality with "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy," he more often executed that most difficult comic turn, being simultaneously funny and sweet.

  • It's a little Celebration, its mawkish marketing and sentimental architecture direct descendants of Celebration and Seaside, Fla.

  • CCD-impaired journalists blot out the past and embrace the mawkish.

  • Near-unanimity on the verdict: Actor-director Kevin Costner's latest is "truly awful" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The post-apocalyptic Western about a band of mailmen who save the United States is faulted for its ridiculous premise, mawkish dialogue, and megalomaniacal directing, among other things.

  • Without being mawkish, I think one can say that Susan Faludi reached beyond her role as a feminist, or even as a writer.


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