mawkish in a sentence

• Even here you have to overcome Ashanti's mawkish words.
• Admittedly the text is glibly anti-establishment and often mawkish.
• The most serious distraction is Alan's own mawkish psychodrama.
• She did, though she turned out some mawkish writing, too.
• More typically, her presence adds a sentimental, even mawkish aura.
• That leads to a speech and a slightly mawkish ending.
• It is the mawkish frontispiece of illustrated Sunday school texts.
• They can be profoundly moving without ever becoming mawkish ."
• Without being mawkish, Ms . Sarandon plays Mag as an everyday heroine.
• The Fourth of July is inevitably a somewhat mawkish holiday around our house.
• It's difficult to see mawkish in a sentence .
• But Ms . Fadiman is not mawkish about them.
• Hank ( Jeffrey Tambor ) has his mawkish on-air farewell quashed.
• It was not outlandish or the slightest bit mawkish.
• Its skewed perspective undercuts all certainties, both mawkish emotions and easy irony.
• But that simply made it a somber circus, even a mawkish one.
• There were mawkish, overwrought moments; political pundits pushed their own agendas.
• A drunk scene, which should be mawkish, is instead nearly heartbreaking.
• Olmos'melodramatic reading is a match for his character's mawkish writing.
• This could have easily come across as mawkish.
• Besides, good ballads that aren't mawkish are hard to come by.