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Example sentences for: mawkish
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It is "virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). One cage is left unrattled, though: Stephen Holden of the New York Times delivers an uncharacteristically nasty write-up, calling it "gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch" that is "a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come ." (Click here to visit the official site.)
"Clinton's behavior has been contemptible throughout, from his initial offences, to his legalistic evasions, to his unbearably mawkish and snivelling apologies," the paper said.
CCD-impaired journalists blot out the past and embrace the mawkish.
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.
Critics complain that this is a "mawkish tale ...