| 单词 | mawkish |
| 例句 | Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I shall tell them that our courts, swamped with mawkish sentimentality, are no longer fit instruments to safeguard the public peace! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For some these flashbacks are the emotional high points of the play; for others they are mawkish melodrama. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z Sadly, this week’s “Designated Survivor” proved unable to maintain this delicate act: It has a riveting A Story, but a labored B Story and an unimportant and mawkish C Story. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It doesn't do to get mawkish – it's not the end of the world, certainly not for Ross, who is generally thought to feed on adversity and get a bit lazy in good times. Jonathan Ross bids farewell to the BBC 2010-07-17T00:01:00Z But other artists might let these motifs land with mawkish sentimentality. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But Gill was not a fan of Coldplay, revealing in a 2008 interview that he found them “pompous, mawkish, and unbearably smug” and called the band the “sonic equivalent of wilted spinach.” Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z And I also have a mawkish, natural enthusiasm for things. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z But not all the actors thrive under this sympathetic and ultimately mawkish approach: Mr. Pang is a neat sketch in hypocrisy, but Ms. Tan’s calamitous Michelle just never adds up. Review: In ‘Unlucky Plaza,’ a Comic Hostage Crisis via Tabloid Storytelling 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Heffernan, who worships at the figurative altar of the Old Masters, continues to strike me as a little mawkish, but her chops are undeniable. Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The iconography, with many a mawkish muddle, is more or less south Indian. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z However the musical, which unfolds in one act, loses satirical snap and some verve as the warm relationship between the explorer and his ardent admirer veers toward the mawkish. ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’: a modern expedition to romance 2014-04-21T23:56:15Z Interspersed with upbeat jigs and traditional tunes, “Once” manages the feat of being emotional but never mawkish. New Music: A New Album From Billy Hart and the Soundtrack to ?Once? 2012-03-26T22:44:04Z Community Outcast could have been another litany of plaints about Britain's underclass, but it's moving not mawkish, and even when he rhymes "mummy" and "tummy" it's poignant, not puerile. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z This was nonsense: Poor Folk is a mawkish tale that would have been forgotten had the same author not also written Crime and Punishment et al. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z The songs teeter between revealing and mawkish, and as on many long-burgeoning albums, the production grows overbearing. Music Review: Courtney Love and New Hole Lineup at Terminal 5 2010-04-28T22:45:00Z “Seventeen” ends with these hesitant lovebirds on the swings, looking toward a future that by rights will include many a less coy and mawkish play. Weaving Politics and Passion in ‘Love in Idleness’ and ‘Limehouse’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z His charisma carries the set through lean spells such as Sycophant, aimed at the group's journalistic detractors, and the mawkish and clunky Cross My Heart & Hope to Fly. The Courteeners | Pop review 2010-03-21T22:20:00Z The final scene will surely bring some readers to tears, but those it leaves dry-eyed might also be slack-jawed at the mawkish payoff to an already mushy setup earlier in the novel. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Avoiding the mawkish is an under-celebrated Beach Boys song, Santa's Beard, about the visit to the department store of a little boy, "only five and a half, going on six". Bob Stanley's guide to writing the perfect Christmas hit 2010-12-16T22:15:01Z Mr. Cooper doesn’t shy away from the borderline comedic lunacy of Uday, with his toothy grin and his mawkish attachment to his mother. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z A dollop of mawkish sentiment is to be expected in this kind of movie. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Actual journalists often found the tone a bit mawkish and sentimental, like the voice-over on films you used to watch about civics in grade school. Perspective | Born in the age of high hopes, the Newseum dies in the days of fake news 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In a mawkish finale the host stages an elaborate dress rehearsal of his own funeral, complete with musicians and weeping mourners. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z A mawkish reading of the line suggests that all dreams can, in fact, be realized. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Despite the retrospective segments and the love going around, starting with a lengthy standing ovation to open the show, the finale mostly avoided mawkish sentiment and stayed true to the host’s deadpan, self-deprecating sensibility. Highlights From David Letterman's Last 'Late Show' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Biggie's friend Jay-Z began his ascent to global stardom and his erstwhile mentor Puff Daddy – as he then was – secured a worldwide hit with his mawkish tribute, I'll Be Missing You. Camp Lo – review 2013-03-12T16:48:06Z The point is effective, though the story paints itself into a corner with the mawkish particulars of Mahi's misery. 'Heiran': A soapy, enlightening look at immigration, star-crossed love in Iran 2010-10-07T19:37:00Z They indulge in decoration, pretty colours, niceness and mawkish charm. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z When Mr. Chavez stuck to salsa, his shell-game formations both rode and established a groove, but his attempts at storytelling were unclear, and his stabs at lyricism turned mawkish. Dance Review: Roclan Gonz?lez Chavez in ?Kings of Salsa? - Review 2011-10-18T20:50:41Z It's sentimental without being mawkish, and not afraid to get a little weird, on the one hand, or a little serious, on the other. TV Picks: 'Enlisted,' 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,' 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z I am eager to see how this mawkish approach to the hard problem of consciousness relates to your 1040 form. The 2019 Super Bowl Ads Are a Case Study in Technological Dread 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Bennett’s version is lovely, but also deliberately mawkish, contained. We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z “American Horror Story” is most cohesive and surprising in its “Asylum” season, with subsequent outings sagging under the weight of their cameos and a somewhat mawkish adherence to archetypes. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z “It was really important, without being mawkish or false, that he make amends to her — that he take accountability for the pain that he and only he has caused,” Affleck said. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z And of course, there is the standing embarrassment of Pearl S Buck, author of mawkish books about Chinese peasants. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z First Cut Is the Deepest, sung with eyes closed, delivered an emotional kick, and You're in My Heart, with the audience on backing vocals, was moving as only a mawkish rock anthem can be. Rod Stewart 2010-05-31T21:01:00Z If that makes the book sound mawkish or exploitative, or a misery memoir on a grand scale, it never feels at all like that. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z The film was in no way mawkish or manipulative, and for that we should thank whatever gods we need, because the last thing real drama wants is melodrama. Rewind TV: 7/7: One Day in London; Blackout; When I Get Older; Imagine: Graceland – review 2012-07-07T23:05:40Z As mawkish as this sounds: The Bluebird is about songs, not stardom — their power to crystallize ephemeral emotions and reach places inside you that don’t see them coming. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z He's come around in recent years, noting Thursday that the film "could have been really mawkish." TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z This time around they’re choked and more than a little mawkish, the sentimental old boss’s goodbye. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z After that, into a sequence of mawkish ballads in which Rihanna pushes herself to the edges of her voice — and why flex here on the album’s blandest fare? Is a Rihanna album without hits still a Rihanna album? 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Moore's skill is to unfold their stories, freighted with unhappiness, in a way that is touching, not to say intensely moving, while never becoming mawkish. Heft by Liz Moore – review 2013-04-19T16:45:01Z Paddling, snorkelling, swimming, splashing: it is, without wanting to sound mawkish, a real gift, the sea. I like pools, and have named ducks in swimming ponds. But the sea heals above all else | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It sounds mawkish, but the picture’s low-key vibe and offhand humor land with surprising grace. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z As video, it’s unintentionally comic, mawkish passing for sober. For Innovation at the Grammys, Look at the Best Music Video Category 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z As “Pow” quietly jumps from scene to scene, the order seems interchangeable as moments — some singular, others more mawkish — threaten to swallow the greater whole. Review: In ‘Pow,’ Keely Garfield Combines Tough and Awkward 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z “Viper Club” falters with mawkish flashbacks of the mother and son, and with its ham-fisted, repeated emphasis on the smarm of government officials. Review: ‘Viper Club’ Looks Behind the Scenes of a Press Kidnapping 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “No one else gets it like you get it,” Ms. Turner said to her, sincerely, before turning playfully mawkish: “No one gets me like you do.” Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Grown Up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s “Rockettes to the Rescue,” the dancers in green Planet Mongo costumes, decimating the enemy with good-cheer blasts and saving us from mawkish sentiment and garish effects. Theater Review: Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’ 2012-11-22T21:09:43Z Both songs are uncomfortable salutes to the female form, though Mayer was more mawkish in his recounting of the pleasures of flesh. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z And yet, despite television ads that look alternately wacky and mawkish and suggest pat, glossy superficiality, "Hope Springs" unearths some quiet and often uncomfortable truths. Review: Quiet `Hope Springs' has real punch 2012-08-06T23:46:05Z The film gracefully sidesteps pitfalls of mawkish sentiment. Movie Listings for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The film’s tone becomes mawkish, akin to a Lifetime movie that flaunts a little bite before it wallows in melodrama. In ‘Isn’t It Delicious,’ a Controlling Mother Tries to Reform 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But where Dockery toed the line with her performance, others veered into the mawkish. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z But if it is messy and occasionally mawkish, “The First Grader” is rarely dull. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z Enchanted Parks, Gateshead Transforming a Gateshead park into a magical land of stories, lights and art installations, this annual event is a wonderful alternative to the mawkish consumer-fests at this time of year. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z His farewell was much better than the usual mawkish television send-off: He mixed favorite segments like his Top 10 list with clips of classic skits and a few restrained fillips of sincerity and humility. Review: David Letterman Says Goodbye, With Self-Mockery and a Little Mush 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Someone else avows that "Nothing in the world is more beautiful than a child's smile": Oprah, I predict, will forgive Frey's previous trespasses when she reads that mawkish sentence. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z The title track was a mawkish devotional number with slide show that depicted a bleak winter landscape turning into lush summer. Live review 2010-04-14T00:12:00Z Even in reruns, Mr. Joel remains divisive; nearly every year, someone writes a high-blood-pressure jeremiad, denouncing his music as derivative and mawkish. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Rather than offer insight into the difficult choices facing disabled people, “Gigi & Nate” opts for mawkish wish fulfillment, undercutting the film’s powerful emotional core. ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But the tale never descends into mawkish nostalgia. Review: Henning Mankell retires beloved detective 2011-03-30T12:51:08Z Carell, incidentally, also had his solo Oscar shot this season, with the mawkish fantasia Welcome to Marwen, in which women band together to heal his traumatised soul. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But the mix of the glib and the mawkish is really just the movies reflecting the world outside the cinema. Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favour 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z After Marie submits the work to a publisher, the novel — which, from excerpts, sounds mawkish and trite — is hailed as “the end of postmodernism” and “ ‘Anna Karenina’ for the Internet generation.” ‘Lila, Lila’ Stars Daniel Brühl as an Impostor 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He died Dec. 5, 1791, less than two months before his 36th birthday, and the mawkish hooey began immediately. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z It took years to develop the film though, partly because Margaret really didn't want to be involved in a film that was going to be full of mawkish emotion. Heritage bears fruit 2011-03-30T07:36:56Z But despite a structural conceit that establishes the action as an exercise in deterministic tragedy, the show, directed by Joe Mantegna and marred by a mawkish underscore, lacks propulsive energy. Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Scenes that might read mawkish in other hands feel fresh, piquant and hilariously sad. Theater Review: ‘Chaplin: The Musical’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theater 2012-09-11T02:00:17Z What keeps Mr. de Haas from seeming mawkish and overly histrionic is his ingenuous trust in total honesty. Music Review: Darius de Haas in ‘If Only for One Night’ at 54 Below, 2012-12-05T23:00:46Z Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony was lovingly shaped and generously paced, as emotionally devastating as the work demands but never mawkish. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z If Red Band is Glee-like at some moments and mawkish at others, the first hour has moments–like the stirring final sequence–that combine the two modes for a rush of earned feeling. Review: Red Band Society Has Faults and (Potential) Stars 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Certain moments in this novel struck me as mawkish and conventional, as though it were written with a screwball TV family comedy in mind, but Dean's writing is generally funnier and darker than that. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting. Review: Lots of Plastic in the Face of ‘Collateral Beauty’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He similarly covers Augustana’s “Fire,” a mawkish song that there’s no frisson in hearing him make even more so. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z He properly belonged to the earlier era of the music halls, an appropriate setting for his combination of agile body- and sometimes mawkish sentimentality. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z Listen to a Philharmonic broadcast from Nov. 23, and you hear a Strauss not of banality but spirituality; what Downes dismissed as mawkish, Mitropoulos conducts as rapture. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z There's a place for mawkish nostalgia and sentimentality, too, thus Gladys Knight's The Way We Were. Readers recommend songs about old age: The results 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z Montages of old people set to mawkish piano music, naive "political statements"… It felt like an overblown way of reversing the whole "mong" saga. Comedians get chance to fall flat on TV, and Eddie Izzard sets sights on politics 2013-02-05T16:36:20Z “The Infinite Hotel” ends with the mawkish spectacle of a dead father holding his daughter. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Her voice moves easily from girlish and sugary to soulful, but it's wasted on some of the more mawkish longueurs such as 21 or Insecure. Delilah: From the Roots Up – review 2012-07-28T23:05:41Z An evening that could have been horribly mawkish has proved utterly life-affirming. Wilko Johnson – review 2013-03-07T18:16:00Z A nervous, fidgety crybaby who in moments of abject self-loathing falls on his knees and prays for deliverance from his miserable condition, Frank is ultimately abhorrent despite a mawkish soft ending. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z While unbearably sad — but also beautiful — at times, the show is not mawkish or manipulative. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent. Special Report: Draped to Be Shaped 2010-02-21T18:30:00Z I mean that was really good: tonight made sitting through this show's more mawkish, timewasting moments worthwhile. Falling Skies: episode six 2011-08-09T21:00:00Z The refrain is mawkish and the rapping that surrounds it is worse — enough to rekindle the debate over whether Minaj should be channeling her life force to nasty rhymes or sweetly sung pop hooks. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z I generally appreciated the tone of the editors, which is neither mawkish nor militaristic. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The problem is how Fowler goes about it, which is in prose that is alternately sleepy and mawkish. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Around that same time, Silvestrov wrote a piece for violin and piano that dawdles on a mawkish melody that crumbles like a plaster statue of Stalin. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The tone of “Knife Fight” is mean until the movie flips a switch and turns pious and mawkish as Paul tries to make amends for past sins. Movie Review: ‘Knife Fight,’ With Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss 2013-01-25T02:18:00Z Ironically, having been brought up in the 50s, when parental affection was thought to encourage mawkish children, he is himself sensitive to touch, and feels a gentle stroke “like an electric shock”. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “If Beale Street Could Talk” never gets mawkish; in fact, it is just the opposite. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z According to film critics, however, "The Identical" is bogged down by its mawkish execution and lack of originality. 'The Identical' is a pale imitation of Elvis' story, reviews say 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z You might assume the contemplation of all these deaths would turn mawkish but, as Stuart rightly claims, the feed is not depressing: “Ironically, it’s the opposite.” Instagram's Aids memorial: ‘History does not record itself’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z This mawkish plot might be tolerable if its characters were more likable; instead, they are pretension personified. ‘The In Between’ Review: Love Never Dies 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z That’s the point at which “Black or White” surrenders to mawkish Hollywood convention and is much the worse for it. ‘Black or White’ Stars Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It would have been easy for the film to lapse into polemic, or mawkish sentimentality; it did neither, treading a fine line between the two and ending in hubris. TV review: The Promise, You Don't Know Jack and Storyville: American Idol ? Reagan 2011-02-07T08:00:05Z Not that there is anything gauzy or mawkish about the film. ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z As an ending to that 1990 film, dying would have seemed a mawkish cheap shot. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Throughout the episode we see the couples sitting on sofas talking straight down the lens, as if being interviewed for a mawkish family documentary. Love and Marriage – TV review 2013-06-06T07:29:48Z The music, thick with shimmering orchestral writing and languid melodic lines, is overwrought, almost mawkish. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Certain critics found the music overwrought, melodramatic, even mawkish. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z I presumed the show was the platonic ideal of my most loathed TV subgenre: dull and mawkish period dramas, saturated in nostalgia for a rigid class hierarchy I consider deeply disturbing, rather than reassuringly organised. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The mawkish third act, however, nearly destroys all that appeal. Review: `End of the World' has its moments 2012-06-19T22:51:10Z It’s also earnest to a fault, drowning in noble intentions and mawkish clichés. Theater Review: ‘Bare,’ Rock Musical, at New World Stages 2012-12-11T22:20:29Z Carell is a charming, maddening enigma, mawkish and mannered but always, somehow, a magnet for empathy. ‘Welcome to Marwen’ Review: Playing With Toys and Putting Away Childish Things 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z No TV ad break is complete without a mawkish rendition of an already wet ballad. Fleet Foxes Sing ? 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z Only near the end, when Anna is found to be mysteriously cured after falling unconscious, does the story veer toward the mawkish. Review: ‘Miracles From Heaven,’ Starring Jennifer Garner as the Mother of a Sick Child 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Movies like “The Rookie,” “Trouble With the Curve,” and now “Million Dollar Arm” celebrate gut instinct, impossible dreams, and are unapologetically mawkish about baseball’s appeal to its diehard fans. MOVIE REVIEW: Baseball film fans will cheer ‘Million Dollar Arm’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Never mawkish or contrived, it’s an absolutely authentic depiction of how friendship can overcome adolescent anxiety and grief. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality? Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z Not mawkish, it is the strongest element of the game. Video Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword by Nintendo - Review 2011-11-29T16:04:04Z It's all desperately sincere, but Eyres's emotive testimony can get mawkish. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z They’re mawkish idylls by painters largely obscure even to Germans and Austrians today. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z This dialogue verges on the mawkish: “What does hermaphrodite mean?” ‘Mott Street’ Chronicles 4 Generations of Chinese American Life 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “I mean, it’s so mawkish. Now I feel awful doing this. Like a coffin chaser,” he says. ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’-style homage to celebrity deaths of 2016 runs out of space 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The dark comedy’s six episodes, all of which Gervais wrote and directed, whiplash between vicious and mawkish. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The timeslot may lend itself to the mawkish and the genteel but this is no place for scones or whimsy. The Mill, where misery is relentless 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Like Ms. Grannis, Ms. Perri has a mawkish way with a lyric: “Dancing slowly in an empty room/Can no longer take the place of you,” and so on. Critics? Choice: Brooding Now Laced With Hope 2011-05-30T21:33:36Z A little bit hunched, hobbled by cardigan socks and shoes, Guillem wonderfully embodies her character's awkwardness without being remotely mawkish or patronising. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z How easy it would be to cradle these characters in mawkish sympathy or spike these pages with political outrage. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The movie accentuates the positive without descending into mawkish sentimentality, although here and there it comes close. ‘Pride’ Shows the Alliance of a Gay Group and Mineworkers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It set the tone for a two-hour film that was alternately mawkish and self-indulgent and always – as Lucy seemed a perennially reluctant subject – faintly, distastefully intrusive. Hugh's Big Fish Fight and True Stories: The Kids Grow Up 2011-01-12T08:00:04Z Unfortunately, Miller can’t resist the impulse to tie Louis’s messy tangle of woebegone threads into a tidy, mawkish bow. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The film could be mawkish and manipulative, as could Williams himself, but this was tempered by its authentic irreverence. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z And so much of what concerned me as important in the earlier pages of my diary now seems mawkish, trivial or beneath notice. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z “Hourglass” suffers for its sometimes mawkish language, places where Goddard reaches for earnestness but sounds insincere, or just immature. A debut novel's funny Valentine to love in all its icky absurdity 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In lesser hands, Catch Me In The Air could be mawkish, but Sawayama's reckless approach to genre saves it from schmaltz. Rina Sawayama: I've been blessed by ABBA! 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “She Gets the Girl” is a delicate balance of humor, heartbreak and warmth, allowing the novel’s central romance to entertain readers without surviving on cheap humor or mawkish sentimentality. 4 brand-new YA novels, reviewed by Seattle-area teens 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z America’s “abandonment of God” has opened the door for government-run schools to replace families’ Judeo-Christian morality with “the mawkish talk of liberal values,” Mr. Barr said during a lecture Wednesday night. Ex-AG William Barr: Public education replaces God with government 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Occasionally mawkish and sentimental, the novel nonetheless conveyed the horrors of slavery and the humanity of slaves by a dazzling array of colorful and convincing characters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z I began to berate myself: Who is this mawkish person I’ve become? Opinion | Pandemic tears of joy 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Within a week, we would have been drowning in breathless TV segments, tendentious op-eds, and mawkish lectures about the sanctity of democracy in the United States. Kyrsten Sinema doesn't need to be saved by Republicans 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z It could feel really earnest and mawkish, but it’s being delivered by a robot who’s just going, “Hmm, I don’t understand grief either, but it’s got to have a purpose.” To the delight of its stars, 'WandaVision' is not just the MCU's 'kooky cousin' 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The entire American political establishment sits in attention as then-President Bill Clinton pays mawkish tribute to Nixon's "service to his country," for which the country, Clinton explains, is forever in his debt. Now we're supposed to think Reagan, Bush and the Cheneys are cool? They got us here 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Directed by David Fincher and written by his late father Jack, this film is nostalgic but not mawkish, reverent but not blind. ‘First Cow,’ ‘Nomadland’ top AP’s best films of 2020 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z If indie bands of the noughties were lamentable in their mawkish, self-aggrandising sentimentality, then both Fat White Family and Idles should be recognised for their efforts to connect to something bigger. Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z To the dominant Democrats—the Clinton and Obama circles—he was too mawkish with the Scranton Joe routine, too transparent in his ambition.” Can the GOP outflank the Dems’ moral high ground? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The set had the aesthetics of upper-middle-class quarantine — a single room, decorated by Krasinski’s young daughters with handcrafted posters — and the segments, while often mawkish, could be genuinely sweet. The Hollow Inspiration of ‘Some Good News’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Ban Johnson, the American League president, told Washington Manager Bucky Harris that “your display of mawkish sentiment” caused the Senators to lose, 9-7, to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Perspective | Game 7 of the 1925 World Series was the best anyone had seen — if only they could 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z These days especially, there is no mawkish reverence requiring a rigorous counterbalance. Germaine Greer’s attack on Meghan Markle – so predictable, so old hat, so wrong | Barbara Ellen 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s certainly easier to absorb the history of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — the bestseller that decisively changed Northern public opinion about slavery in the 1850s — than to encounter its cringeworthy stereotypes and mawkish dialogue. 'American Dirt' and the tradition of the moral parable 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Such nuance is now Radiohead’s bread and butter, but only so because Yorke learned, after much saccharine bumbling, to consolidate his bleak and mawkish impulses into one. Radiohead’s 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z I loathe the kind of mawkish stunts that cause human beings to cry for the camera. No one is immune from loneliness, but we have the cure within ourselves | Rachel Cooke 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z As anyone who follows Trump on Twitter knows, his tweetstream is meretricious beyond belief, an unending torrent of lies, vulgar abuse, contradictions, mawkish sentimentality, incitements to violence and narcissism. @realDonaldTrump shows Twitter knows which side its bread is buttered | John Naughton 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z What’s striking about Ronan is how fully Swift, who wrote the song when she was 21, inhabits the character of a mother mourning her son; the lyrics are genuinely moving rather than mawkish. Taylor Swift's singles – ranked! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But “Marie, Dancing Still” also can go mawkish, valorizing its flawed characters into heroes and glossing the demimonde grit in an era when everything was not beautiful at the ballet. ‘Marie, Dancing Still,’ at 5th Avenue Theatre, needs work before heading to Broadway 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Then, as now, he could swerve quickly from mawkish to mischievous — by turns a goofy extrovert and a lone wolf, withdrawing in moments of introspection. Beto O’Rourke Was Once Adrift in New York City. Now He’s Searching Again. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z He fumbles with the overly mawkish ending, which leaves an especially sour taste. Review: WALSH/TNS ‘Serenity’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z So I can’t tell you exactly what Red Bull’s latest London Underground advert says because it uses this mawkish lyrical form. Red Bull wants us to leave work at 4pm. I couldn’t agree more 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z We are given more detail than we need or want about each fictional band member’s travails, which are often uncomfortably mawkish. Review: Middle-age regret gets a rock 'n' roll workout in Stefan Marks' new play 'Middle8' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z His ensemble pieces, often using amateur actors in very humble settings, were moving but never mawkish. From Fellini to Ferrante: the cinematic vision of My Brilliant Friend 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The death of a child belonged to a different realm—that of a Greek tragedy or a mawkish movie. “When We Were Happy We Had Other Names” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Theater nerds in ancient Greece even made masks to broadcast this simple duality to their audience—mawkish weeping on one hand, manic laughter on the other. The USGA remains its own worst enemy - Golf Digest 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The tone of the columns tended to be syrupy and mawkish, filled with false cheer. Opinion | Dear Abby, #MeToo 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z These days the duo’s popularity is sometimes held against them, as if they were merely purveyors of mawkish schlock. The great second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Trump himself seemed conflicted over the fate of the Dreamers, having frequently made mawkish statements about “loving” them since the election and implied they would be safe. Tracking Trump: a blow for 'Dreamers' and a deal with Democrats 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Why did she go through with releasing a mawkish music video for that single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” on a weekend when our country’s fourth-largest city was halfway underwater? Remind me again: Why are we watching the VMAs? 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z And given Hollywood’s penchant for buying his projects — Loeb’s resume includes last year’s mawkish Will Smith vehicle “Collateral Beauty” and the sour Adam Sandler comedy “Just Go With It” — it won’t be his last. 'Only Living Boy in New York': Privileged men, one-dimensional women and way too many visions of Johanna 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Some find it mawkish and overblown, but at least he is expressing himself. Hamou, Nastase and Court – will tennis ever escape the dark ages? | Kevin Mitchell 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z This is an amusing ad, creative and funny, but totally spoiled by a mawkish payoff line that makes Honda sound like they’re a band of international socialists rather than a car company. Super Bowl commercials: best and worst of 2017 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Nothing mawkish here, and no politically correct revisionist tendencies afoot either. Trump and Clinton voters showed wide gap in views, poll reports 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Twenty-two years earlier, he had saved his career by addressing a supposed scandal with his nationally broadcast “Checkers speech,” which was mawkish, abasing and effective. A fitting final chapter to 2016’s sleaze sweepstakes 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He said, without being mawkish: 'What if we had the cop choir singing on it?' Michael Ball and Alfie Boe: 'We wanted to do a tribute to Wham!' - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z There was a time, before the disciplinary hearings and protracted legal clashes, when Mr. Eugene’s career seemed to follow the arc of a mawkish sports movie. Everybody Hates a Winner: A Brooklyn High School Football Coach Inspires and Exasperates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z But for me, the florid sentimentality of the song is mawkish. At 5th Ave, an updated look for ‘Man of La Mancha’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “The Hollars” drives inexorably to a conclusion that feels as manipulatively mawkish as it is impossibly tidy, typical of a genre that too often tries to have it both ways. ‘The Hollars’ takes another spin around Dysfunctional Family Circle 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “Mr. Letterman is not for the mawkish, and he has no truck for the sentimental,” Macdonald said, clasped hands raised to his chin to help maintain composure. Will somebody please give Norm Macdonald another TV show? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But it’s followed by a schmaltzy, unconvincing denouement, focusing on Christ’s crucifixion, that feels, in spirit, like it was lifted from the mawkish film-within-a-film in the Coen brothers’ snarky comedy “Hail, Caesar!” ‘Ben-Hur’ review: The chariot race is spectacular, but the rest is pure schmaltz 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And her obsession with winning her sainted father’s approval is a mawkish gambit. ‘Daisy’ at ACT aims to show the people behind politics’ most famous ad 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z “Oh, dear,” Cora said with the mawkish sympathy of hers that I confess I find at once girlishly alluring and rather dull. Lord Grantham Reacts to Brexit Decision 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Quite clearly, by the means and the manner of his passing, he didn't want funerals, he didn't want memorials, he didn't want any of that mawkish rubbish. Glastonbury preview: Eleven acts to watch this weekend - BBC News 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “Glee” went off the air in 2015, but its star is far from mawkish about it. Jane Lynch of ‘Glee’ brings musical show to the Kennedy Center 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It's more surprising that it doesn't slow down the pace, or turn mawkish or hypocritical. The Neighbors 2 review: a surprisingly safe space for budding feminism and mouth-to-mouth puking 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But neither are as shallow or as grossly intolerable as the mawkish new Eddie Murphy drama Mr. Church. If Tribeca 2016 had a theme, it might be 'adulting is hard' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Such a move might seem mawkish or desperate at any other theater, but here it shows off the quirky genuineness of “Waitress.” Review: Broadway’s ‘Waitress’ has the recipe for success 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Occasionally a hotbed of mawkish emotion, Anfield is likely to extend an extremely warm welcome to their former manager on Saturday and if Benítez is touched by the reception, expect him to hide it well. Premier League, FA Cup semi-finals and Championship : 10 things to look out for 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Jokes about how mawkish he seemed in the ’80s are increasingly irrelevant to young people, who can care only so much about what anything seemed like before they were born. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z All of you should be ashamed of your mawkish attempts to use this horrible event as an excuse to push legislation you've wanted since the 1960s and to which the American people continually say "no." San Bernardino Was Terrorism 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The books you’ve insisted on making popular are bad ones: sentimental, mawkish and manipulative. If you enjoyed a good book and you're a woman, the critics think you're wrong | Jennifer Weiner 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z And yet life is full of excessive emotions and mawkish situations. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It's not helped by struggling, risible performances, painfully mawkish tone and over-the-top death scenes. 'Dragon Blade' visually grand, emotionally hollow 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Alongside the history of US politics is a mawkish history of Americans sending letters, making phone calls, signing petitions, and submitting online forms. Rand Paul's presidential app is no joke 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “Southpaw” may be rote, predictable and mawkish, but none of those faults lie in its star. Jake Gyllenhaal transforms in the boxing drama ‘Southpaw’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z I waited for an intrepid manhunt, a plea for the nation’s cooperation, mawkish depictions of the victims. The quadruple homicide you didn’t hear about 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Continuing to produce Macs isn’t about nostalgia or some mawkish lament of abandoning a connection to the past. Apple Should Never Stop Making Macs 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Westerners have a mawkish habit of discerning Buddhist parables in even the blandest Bhutanese policy pronouncements. Bhutan: A Higher State of Being 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The only opposing viewpoint offered was 20 seconds of testimony from the IRS commissioner who was allowed to appear in the film because he was showing mawkish rage. UnFair: Exposing The IRS - Does Not Make Strong Case Or Decent Documentary 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z His overtures to South Africa are fair enough, if a little mawkish and pointed. KP: The Autobiography – ‘more score settling than an autobiography’ 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Given the trajectory of his career there is even a kind of paradox in Fàbregas’s vaguely mawkish dual-attachment to the club teams of his adolescence. How Cesc Fàbregas left his backstory behind and found a home at Chelsea 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z On August 17th Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister and son of modern Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, delivered his 11th such speech in his genial, if slightly mawkish, style. Cracks in the façade 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The majority of people seem perfectly able to feel sorry about Peaches without descending into a state of mawkish, artificial hysteria. Peaches Geldof deserves no censure. Save that for her critics 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The positivity movement took off in a big way, and turned mawkish very quickly. 5 Productivity Hacks (Or, How To Stop Hating Work) 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Turner's face fills with a mawkish grin as he contemplates LeFaive's question. Ted Turner Defends Prairie Underdogs [Excerpt] 2013-04-26T17:15:16.207Z It is mawkish and it attempts to resurrect an appeal in a type of Britishness that the 1960s laid to rest but which Bond has been giving moth-to-mouth ever since, never more so than here. Skyfall, Bond, And Adele - Will It Sell to America? 2012-10-29T09:10:36Z It was certainly not boring, and, although mawkish at times, has generally been acclaimed a great success. The thing about Ed Miliband and 'one nation' is that he believes it 2012-10-06T23:06:07Z She is single-minded, but she ramps it up, as if to sabotage journalistic attempts to frame her life in mawkish, triumph-over-adversity terms. Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympic star to disability rights champion 2012-08-26T17:14:43Z Empire is not kept in such a mawkish, artificial manner. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z I am out of patience with this mawkish sympathy. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z A sly and mawkish smile half opened her toothless mouth, and made her dull eyes glitter. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z But modern realism would not permit this, and therefore the Virgin is represented as a commonplace middle-aged woman, who might as well be Mr. Weir's housekeeper, and whose mawkish expression is positively repulsive. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The mawkish love-making and the false heroism of these monstrous novels went rapidly out of fashion in France soon after 1660, when the epoch of the Heroic Romance came to an end. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The breath is mawkish or fetid, and expectoration more or less sticky and charged with bacilli; but all these symptoms are at times equivocal, and inoculation alone can attest the true nature of the disease. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z William James put the matter in a nutshell when he wrote that "the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature tastes mawkish and dish-watery to people who still keep a sense of life's more bitter flavours." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z They who incited her very brothers, clownish hobbledehoys, and her mawkish sister to rise up against her and against him? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The one found fault with his effeminate manners and mincing ways, the other vowed that he was so sweet as to be mawkish. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The mawkish creature was in bed, being fondled and caressed. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z These gradually blanch in the centre, soften, and change into pustules or abscesses, and, bursting, discharge a slimy, thick, sanguineous pus, often emitting a mawkish or fetid odor. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z On the whole, even the mawkish chatelaine was less grievous as a mistress. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Well, so he did, and I can speak of him or admire him, poor charming slightly mawkish youth, quite as I would another. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z "Just look at mawkish pale-face," she cried one day to the chevalier, who nodded and smiled, pretending to be intelligent. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z What a low mania the mawkish creature was displaying for dirty wretches clad in rags! The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z His plays are immoral because their passion is so often morbid and their sentiment mawkish. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z An album, kept here, is filled with mawkish sentimentality, impertinent witticism, religious fervor, and infidel bravado. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I have not withstood Maitland to be won by the monkey tricks and mawkish commonplace of ordinary men. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z I don’t mean that you should be mawkish or sensationalistic, but every story about science has something that is truly absorbing. Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing 2011-12-20T15:15:05.230Z Vainly she revolved the chances of ever returning to Lorge, when suddenly arrived the abb�'s first letter, which was quite sticky and mawkish with honey. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life? Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Worse, the ethnic stereotypes, vulgar jokes and drug humor give way to mawkish moralizing long before an out-of-his-depth Hill delivers an inspirational speech to a 13-year-old gay kid. Theron’s Monster Chases Prom-Queen Glory; New Year’s Dud: Film 2011-12-08T04:21:21Z The use of keyboards is mawkish and graceless. McCartney Gets Back to Beatlemania With Rolling Stone on Tour 2011-12-07T06:28:36Z The pathos of these scenes is never false, never mawkish or overdone; it is the pathos of life itself. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z You love that mawkish creature, and, for my part, as I have said before, you may wear her and welcome, though I don't admire your taste. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z There was nothing squeamish or mawkish about him. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z She sat down on the sofa by him and strove to make her manner a little more intimate without becoming mawkish or intrusive. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z A canting, mawkish play, entitled False Delicacy, had just been produced, and sentimentality was all the mode. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Let them go into the enemy's armory, divest themselves of their mawkish sympathy, buckle on the very armor which their enemy wears, and adopt the mode of warfare used by them. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z But some of our sympathizers and mawkish journalists may question the authority of the gentleman. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The first lady and Dr. Biden also hit the road with Joining Forces' mawkish message in April, around the same time the White House switched into serious campaign mode. How Serious Is Michelle Obama's Veterans Initiative? 2011-09-20T00:45:28Z The bacteriological results were entirely satisfactory but many complaints were received that the treatment had imparted a mawkish taste to the water. Chlorination of Water 2011-09-13T02:00:32.243Z And did the other think to throw dust in his eyes with such mawkish sentimentalism—to evade this old tacit obligation by a flimsy pretence of moral scruple? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z They will assert, in their usual mawkish style, that it was never the intention of the framers of our constitution to treat those who come amongst us with unkindness. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Prevent the dog from making a series of mawkish statements about Catalan homesickness with a juicy bone. Football transfer rumours: Peter Odemwingie to Spurs? 2011-08-15T07:30:51Z It is also about the arrogance, ambition, cold-heartedness and mawkish sentimentality of the humans who ostensibly cared for him. Proposed Ban on Ape Research Caps Summer of the Chimps 2011-08-12T18:15:00.237Z We should take care not to fall into an effeminate tenderness or a silly philanthropy which sacrifices justice to a mawkish sensibility. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Had he any right to fling himself away, merely in the interest of fictitious truth, on the mawkish principle of "Thou shalt not do evil that good may come"? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Here we have no mawkish sentimentality, no excessive laudation, on the one hand; on the other, no Occidental harshness, no Occidental ignorance of the sweet mystery of Eastern ways of life and modes of thought. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z That was merely a matter of mawkish sentiment; this was an affair of business. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z And that person is scouted as a mawkish prude or a hypocritical fanatic, who scruples to go the whole round of these elegant amusements. A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing 2011-07-10T02:00:22.780Z And oh, ye sceptics, ye dull leaden-hearted mortals! doubt not of the language of the eyes—that common theme of mawkish lovers—but though common, not the less true and certain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Endymion is wholly overcome, and in a speech of somewhat mawkish surrender gives himself to the new earthly love, not blindly, but realizing fully what he forfeits. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The King is at one moment dissolved in a mawkish tenderness, at another sunk into brutal apathy. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z A sort of discussion ensued, so dominated by his mordant cynicism and biting wit that she certainly ran no danger of developing any mawkish views of life. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z We shall find her sport soon the mawkish damsel will sicken at, I warrant. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z But the efforts of learned and eloquent counsel, aided by public prejudice, mawkish sentiment, and the ignoring by the jury of all the expert testimony, determined the verdict as stated. Medical experts: Investigation of Insanity by Juries 2011-05-07T02:00:24.990Z Woodhouse asked why not Isabella too? and Keats answered that he could not bear that poem now and thought it mawkish. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Intensely selfish, and totally devoid of feeling, an apt pupil of her aunt and uncle, she regards all sentiment, romance or disinterested acts of kindness as mawkish, unpractical foolishness. A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z The regulation illness for use in tales of mawkish pathos. Mr. Punch in Bohemia 2011-04-16T02:00:17.803Z I don't think people will take more than a monthly dose of 'my bitters,' and I incline to suspect mawkish twaddle and old Joe Millers would hit the mark better. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z It is, on the one side, an antidote to the sentimental and mawkish, and on another a supplement to what may be called the purely professional soldier tale. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z But even in the poem specially designed to embody and celebrate that passion, in Endymion, we find his conception of realized and sexual human love to be mawkish and unworthy. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I am not at all sentimental—much less mawkish—regarding the destruction of trees. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z And in many cases, the comments that float up are mawkish and sentimental. Yahoo Experiments With Commentary 2011-03-25T16:07:58Z He had the face and the body of an athlete, a man who keeps himself fit; and there was nothing mawkish or effeminate about him. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z And this without mawkish sentimentality or comic opera delicacy of conduct. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I have always considered "Woodman, spare that tree," just about the most mawkish bit of badly versified prose in our language, and never could guess how it should touch the sensibilities of any one. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z When not scrubbing, or baking, or mending, she indulged in the most mawkish class of fiction, and complained querulously of her lot the while. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z They were a mawkish, "genteel" set: from genteel people might the Lord deliver her! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z No probable line of thought suggested by Avignon's historied and romantic past will intimate even the mawkish, the sordid, or the banal. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z His good women were mawkish fools; his villainesses splendidly lovable. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Why, you young goose," he yelled out—"of all the miserable weak rubbish I ever tried, Ariadne in Naxos is the most mawkish and disgusting. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z A ghastly, mawkish chill like tomb-air blew dankly from the swamp. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z The flesh of the cup is full of sweet mucilage, which makes the fruit acceptable to children, but the flavour is rather too mawkish to suit older tastes. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z “There is some of this that is good and laudable and there is some that is pretty mawkish,” the general said. Letter From Europe: Supporting the Troops, Not the Wars 2010-11-19T12:41:00Z There were the extended metaphors using the language of addiction and recovery, which harkened back to his mawkish Christmas tale. Glenn Beck: The craziest one at the CPAC party 2010-02-21T01:35:00Z There was a mawkish clap-trap about it which thoroughly disgusted him. Ayala's Angel Susan played on us both that day: though the mawkish music we made would have disgusted her—did disgust her in its final effects, as it has finally disgusted me. The Book of Susan A Novel More than that, she expressed the bitterest scorn of my mawkish conscientiousness, as she called it. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life "Nothing is so great a bore as mawkish sensibility," observed another one of the ladies attached to the palace. On the Heights A Novel She loved to expose the false and mawkish doctrines thought fit for women. Maria Edgeworth Tell me about them; and drop this mawkish sentiment caught from books. The Day of His Youth She even becomes mawkish over the fortune of a girl who is too poor to be called upon to pay rates and taxes. The Book of This and That “I hate your mawkish heroines—sort of creature you would call ‘The Maiden.’ The Daughters of a Genius We would guard our readers against giving way to mawkish sentimentalism; that it is not our aim to excite. The Night Side of London Then don't look so solemn: love must be merry and not mawkish. Black Forest Village Stories It is a mantle for mawkish sentiment, the kind that stalks about solemnly like a Puritan at a play, seeing all and affecting his own superiority. The Day of His Youth Now I've once more blown those saints, with their dull, mawkish gentleness, out of your soul, as the north wind, sweeping through the church windows, drives out the smoke of the incense.' The Scarlet Banner These little sermons are free from sensational, mawkish, maudlin stories. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul But M. Boitelle, though kind-hearted, had no sympathy whatsoever with mawkish philanthropy. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Apart from these mawkish phrases, the imitation is framed from first to last upon the mistaken principle that the original would be embellished by amplifications, by a profusion of epithets, and by a gaudier diction. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He, to whom every natural enjoyment is forbidden, feels a gloomy happiness, a mawkish sensuality, in exercising this power; making the ebb and the flow, afflicting in order to console, wounding, healing, and wounding again. Priests, Women, and Families This is the very thing," said the old merchant, "which in all countries maintains mendicity, that we cannot and will not rid ourselves of this petty feeling of soft-hearted vanity and mawkish philanthropy. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels Pray don't let us have any mawkish sentiment, good Master Sheriff! Pretty Michal Surely these mawkish home-ties were fast loosing their hold on me, I thought, as we went in. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Gum is mawkish, insipid, and generally unpalatable, yet highly nutritive; and the Africans, during the harvest of gum at Senegal, live entirely upon it, eight ounces being the daily allowance for each man. The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 It is against the tyranny, feudal and priestly, of those days, that he raises an outcry, warranted almost always by facts which a more mawkish philosophy refuses to see. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages That was pretty mawkish, he thought, as he said it, but he meant it, he meant volumes more. Old Crow I am ready, from your favourite Theuerdank to read aloud now; For, I know, you like the rougher Tales of hunting and adventure, Better than the mawkish sweetness Of our present pastoral poets. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. They pay each other sweet and mawkish compliments. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Either a morbid sensibility, which I despise, or a mawkish affectation, which I detest, injures the tone of your mind, and the truth of your character. Ellen Middleton—A Tale Away too with that mawkish sentimentality which can find no better object for its sympathy than the hardened blasphemer, and the confirmed sceptic! Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford "Has he been"—he hesitated for a word and found what sounded to him a mawkish one—"good to you at all, these last weeks?" Old Crow Warburton’s “Alliance between Church and State,” which was in his time considered as a hardy paradox, is mawkish in its pretensions, compared with this sacerdotal republic. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors You are a soft-hearted, mawkish creature; how could you hate any one?... Fathers and Children Nor is there in his love of nature any transcendental strain; no mawkish sentimentality, and consequently in its expression no bathos. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Heavy lenses, horn rimmed to make them more conspicuous, wild hair, mawkish tweeds, and dirty fingernails to top it off. Combat Thus, to many, "romantic" implies ultra-sentimental, mawkish or grotesque, while everything "classic" is dry, uninspired and academic. Music: An Art and a Language His odes to babes and children earned for him the sobriquet of 'Namby Pamby,' 'a term which has been incorporated into the English language to designate mawkish sentiment. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) And yet the author of this mawkish verbiage probably fancied that he was improving upon the stately English of the Common Prayer. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Now he is tender, now indignant; now rattling along in good-natured raillery without broadening into burlesque; now becoming serious and pensively philosophic without a suggestion of mawkish morality. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series It was not a mawkish sentimentality; he made no pretension, even to himself, that the regard that had once been his for Will still existed. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country He fought it viciously, with contempt, arguing that he was a man, that the thing was done and past, that men have no time for remorse and sickish, mawkish repentance. The Shepherd of the North His sense of humour enlivens some of the scenes, and is, perhaps, chiefly visible in The Funeral; but for the most part dulness is in the ascendant, and the sentiment is frequently mawkish. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) But the rough simplicity is gone, and instead of it there is a tone of sentiment which is almost mawkish. Bunyan Amazed at their own unanimity, they were properly ashamed, each of the other eleven, for their mawkish weakness, and their treachery to the stern requirements of higher citizenship. In a Little Town The world has a batch of mawkish theories about them, but there are also a few very cold facts kept in the dark,—lodge secrets among the sex. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties The faithful study of the fistic art From mawkish softness guards a Briton’s heart. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue You might say, "I love pie," but to say "I love Bettie," was mawkish if not actually improper. A Son of the Middle Border There is so much mawkish rubbish talked and written about such persons. Amabel Channice Such mawkish sentimentality and despair; such inane and mortifying confessions; such longings for a lover to come; such sighings over a lover departed; such cravings for "only"—"only" a grave in some dark, dank solitude. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition They are a weakening of moral fiber, a waste of mawkish sentimentality. What a Young Woman Ought to Know But the peace party had it by the throat; they, with their mawkish cry for peace, peace at any price, drowned the voices of men and heroes, and, the end was what it was! Cleek, the Master Detective A few philanthropic common places and rhetorical flourishes, "in the abstract," have secured them your "sweet voices," and your influence over the tribe of mawkish sentimentalists. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Her whole manner seemed changed for the better since yesterday, there was scarcely any trace of that mawkish sweetness in her speech, of that voluptuous softness in her movements. The Brothers Karamazov Madame de Chalis, according to a memory of many years which I have not thought it worth while to freshen, has a weaker draught of this rancid and mawkish sentimentality. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Wither is never mawkish, though he is never loose, and the swing of his verse at its best is only equalled by the rush of thought and feeling which animates it. A History of Elizabethan Literature Away, then, with all the mawkish cant about corrupting the morals and ruining the health of the Chinese by selling them poison! Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. Some have thought it mawkish, rhetorical, clumsily imitative of the manners of dead chivalry, and the like. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 I descended to self-pity, conceiving myself a hero and a martyr, revelling in an agony of mawkish sentiment concerning the post-mortem grief of my friends. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The very idea is but a remnant of the tawdry sentimentality of an age in which the mawkish insipidity of the women was the reaction from the vice of that preceding it. The Vicar of Bullhampton Was he some 'Frenchman' imported from sunny Champagne, where Thibaut, the mawkish singer was making verses which his people loved to listen to? The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Novels and light reading of all kinds are thus multiplied, to the exclusion of more valuable books, which sell slowly; and in consequence, an entire nation becomes infected with the depraved appetite of mawkish school-girls. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Flowers in racemes with long, primary peduncles, large, fleshy, lurid, violet color, odor mawkish. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines It's all splendid and barbaric; no mawkish sentiment about it. Peking Dust She never uttered any thing half so mawkish in her life. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical There was no mawkish sentiment—no melancholy in his make-up. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Bertram of course returned thanks to his guests with all the mawkish modesty which usually marks such speeches—or, rather, with modesty which would be mawkish were it not so completely a matter of course. The Bertrams I can be as mawkish as I choose And give my thoughts an airing, let them loose For one last rambling stroll before—Now look! American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany People duly impressed with this truth are sometimes laughed at for their superstitious tone, which is pronounced, according to the fancy of the critic, mawkish, maudlin or hysterical. Picture and Text 1893 I hate 'em when they make parting scenes: it's too mawkish!' A London Life and Other Tales They are incapable of true friendship, and they, in prosperous days, deride the sentiment involved and consider any reference to such matters as silly and mawkish. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Tom Moore is usually somewhat sugary and mawkish; but in so much he was right. The Bertrams The pulp has an agreeable though rather mawkish taste. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Flow Welsted, Flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho’ stale, not ripe; tho’ thin, yet never clear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong, and foaming tho’ not full. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast What do you want to be so mawkish and sentimental for? The Heart of Arethusa He hugged his enemies to his heart with hoops of steel, and at times they inspired him as soft and mawkish concession never could. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Well, children, don't let us have any more of this mawkish dispute. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island The poor simpleton, who is weeping out his woes to honest lawyer Kettleby, it makes mawkish; the beau it makes sick; and the politician it stupifies. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency Life is great enough to say things for itself, without having to be helped out by the mawkish sentimentality of an idiot! Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life It is a myth,—no more,—a sickening, mawkish tale. Molly Bawn Sometimes his tides ran sluggishly, as in 'The Battle of Life,' for example, which has always seemed to me, at least, a most mawkish and unreal book. My Contemporaries In Fiction What a fool, what a weak, mawkish, insipid fool he had made of himself! Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles But let there come but the shadow of a doubt over the man's mind, let him question the sincerity of a tone, and the words will become untrue, mawkish and distasteful. Kept in the Dark The most spiritual concern for a degraded and demoralized fellow-being does not exclude the sharp intervention implied in arrest, for the spiritual attitude is not mawkish or incompatible with the infliction of pain. The Essentials of Spirituality This is no time for trifling, nor for mawkish sentimentality. Theft A Play In Four Acts Don't get mawkish over Brenton, Olive, just because he is a pitiful weakling who, in spite of all his good intentions, has made a consistent mess of everything he's tried to do. The Brentons When any man, North or South, in a public place takes occasion to talk in a mellow and mawkish way of the great love he now has for his old enemy, watch him. Comic History of the United States He wrote her a mawkish letter; read it; and tore it up. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 He can give us goodness when he chooses, a human goodness, not offensively perfect, not preaching, not mawkish, but high-minded and engaging. The Nabob, Volume 1 It is not necessary to be mawkish to see this as a loss. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior Beside them, most of our mawkish English ballads look pale and withered. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Yet we are much at the mercy of clap-trap and mawkish phrases, and we like rhetoric partly because we are too shy to practise it. Joyous Gard I had not yet learned to take events as the rock takes wave-blows, and was still at that mawkish age when a man is easily filled with profound pity for himself. Lords of the North But it was not mawkish and it was not romantic. The Story of a Play A Novel Away with such mawkish modesty and mouthing morality—for 'tis the slang of the hypocrite. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The gas escapes rapidly when the pressure is released, the temperature rises, and the beer becomes flat and mawkish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The whole atmosphere of our literature, in William James' phrase, is "mawkish and dishwatery." A Book of Prefaces It is agreeable to the taste, and may be made into tarts, but proves mawkish unless mixed with some more acid fruit. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure They are not entitled to sympathy, despite the fact that some mawkish Sunday-school books sometimes present the good-hearted burglar. Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective In taking up Dickens' novels it must always be borne in mind that you will find many digressions, many bits of affectation, some mawkish pathos. Modern English Books of Power The premarital relations of all but the most cultured and experienced, are marked by a mawkish sweetness which is all the more noticeable in contrast with the dull routine of saving and slaving which follows. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View What other could have yielded up the mawkish bumptiousness of the Uplift? A Book of Prefaces One of the most regrettable effects of the Abbey memorial, with its mawkish and irrelevant sentimentality, has been to set a bad pattern for statues of Shakespeare. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Hypocritical with himself, filled with mawkish emotion that sublimated him in his own eyes, yet still grimly bent upon his original purpose, he had reached the very nadir of unattractiveness. The Mayor of Warwick Before I could answer he went on: "I'm no mawkish sentimentalist, and I won't allow anybody to be sorry for me—do you hear?" In Search of the Unknown They recognize, too, the mawkish mental foolery of any plan of living together which ignores the part which physical force must necessarily play in any political or social life which is complete. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View And then you drank the vapid liquor up, The mawkish brew beloved of young and old. Love's Comedy The numerous additions, for which the distinguished coadjutors are responsible, reek with mawkish sentimentality, inane vapidity, or vulgar buffoonery. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The most unyielding admirers of his early novels can hardly contradict a reader who complains that he finds the adventures of the bandits at Jonstorna insupportable and the naïveté of Christiana mawkish. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters "I don't want any mawkish sentiment about it," he said, observing me closely; "I won't permit anybody to feel sorry for me—do you understand?" In Search of the Unknown What words of the Duke's speaking had she ever heard with pleasure, except certain terms of affection which had been half mawkish and half senile? Phineas Redux No word of sympathy, no mawkish mumbling of regret, no allusion to his own loss. From the Housetops They are not, in any sense, works of art; they are ill constructed, full of the mawkish gush of the Byronic fever, and never were really sincere and genuine products of heart and brain. Studies in Early Victorian Literature In its typical form it is a yellowish creamy substance, of alkaline reaction, with a specific gravity of about 1030, and it has a peculiar mawkish odour. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. And there was such a loving, mawkish, wobbly look in his eyes, it made me feel quite sick. Red Hair What perfect nonsense to have silly mawkish sentiment over anything! The Man and the Moment He could not afford any mawkish sentiment in this. The False Gods This, mingled with some mawkish sentimentalism that passes under the name of inspiration. Craftsmanship in Teaching I am no advocate of a mawkish lenity. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences It is a poor plot, and mawkish in character, though not without merits of style. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College And the whole business is smeared over with German mawkish sentimentality—this business, I mean, of Senta loving the Dutchman. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas But this accident so sensibly hurt his mawkish delicacy, and so humbled his aristocratic dignity, that he could not raise his eyes on his royal mistress. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 His pathos sometimes melts into a mawkish sensibility, or crystallizes into all the prettinesses of allegorical language, and glittering hardness of external imagery. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution But it seems to me that the new-fashioned ideas are as mawkish as the old ones were brutal. The Judge This charge was simply a subterfuge, and one that was known would be influential with the mawkish philanthropists of the North, Mr. Adams, and the senators and representatives from New England. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest And the third is that there is a great deal of money to be made out of merely silly mawkish books which a genuine censorship would ban with serious, original work. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 The addition of spices is admitted; nevertheless out of a particularly mawkish vegetable is made a palatable drink. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary She was altogether too individual, too positive, too independently real, to fit the mawkish vapourings of a man’s imaginary woman. The Jervaise Comedy But the dialogue is poor, and the Father of the Family himself is as woolly and mawkish a figure as is usually made out of benevolent intentions and weak purpose combined. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) I know I shall incur the deepest censure from the professors of a mawkish philanthropy, and a hypocritical religion which is cursing with its cant the very sources of this unparalleled progress, this unexampled prosperity. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Rudyard Kipling, rarely; when he touches it, the reason is usually because it happens to embrace the military caste, and the result is usually such mawkish stories as "William the Conqueror" and "The Brushwood Boy." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 How could a thinker of his power of brain cover leagues of letter-paper with windy nonsense and mawkish insincerity? In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It was harsh to the palate, the roughest wine of mysticism; but at least it was not the mawkish syrup of the early Cologne painters. The Cathedral For his father's character he had a profound admiration as an embodiment of all the manly virtues, stoical rather than Christian, never mawkish nor effeminate. The Life of Froude But the universe, from the humblest blade of grass to the infinite essence of God, exists because of that warmth which the mawkish world contemns. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall There was nothing vague, nothing fantastic, nothing mawkish, nothing unmanly about this belief, but only the simple faith of a steady soul and a perfectly clear brain. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Oh, do be a man, and drop this mawkish sentiment! Five Little Plays But none of these things which he looked upon affected him in any mawkish, sentimental manner. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest We want no more of the mawkish of either fearing or catering to the "soldier-vote." The Story of The American Legion I have no mawkish sentiment, but I could have cried over one fellow. A Dream of the North Sea That's why the thing I'm saying seems mere sentiment to you, and even mawkish. The Street Called Straight But the peace party had it by the throat; they, with their mawkish cry for peace—peace at any price!—drowned the voices of men and heroes, and the end was what it was! Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? The Poetry Of Robert Browning There is none of the mawkish affectation of the writing of the present day, as coinage of words and fantasies of phrases which will scarcely be understood, much less relished, twenty years hence. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 But mawkish and canting as he was apt to be, he often shewed a fine appreciation of detail. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Suspicion, hate, tyranny, fear, mawkish sentimentality, mad desire, were in the air. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women The young Briton experienced no mawkish pang to note that it was ornamented at one end by a dangling scalp, greatly treasured, the interior of the skin painted red for its preservation. The Frontiersmen It was tainted with artificiality, and now seems mawkish and superficial. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Near them struts the old garrison rat—the superintendent with his mawkish, sneaking smile. The Duel and Other Stories "The faithful study of the fistic art From mawkish softness guards the British heart." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 There is a scent of hay and dry grass and belated flowers, but the scent is heavy, sweetly mawkish and soft. The Bishop and Other Stories I began arguing, getting hot and protesting, but the more loudly and impressively I spoke the more mawkish and sugary Grontovsky's face became. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Her eyes were shining, too, but her brother's shone with a cold sweetness, mawkish as sugar-candy, while hers had the glow of youth, proud and beautiful. The Darling and Other Stories It did not even sound mawkish when he fell to discoursing of ideals. The Duel and Other Stories The fat man was about to make some protest, but the face of the thin man wore an expression of such reverence, sugariness, and mawkish respectfulness that the privy councillor was sickened. Love We have tasted them, and consider they are mawkish and insipid—not much better than very poor gooseberries. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life and The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay are contributions to fiction in which there is an occasional tendency to run pathos into rather mawkish sentimentality. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature We are all irritated now and then by some mawkish interpretation of our motive force that makes it seem a weakly thing, invoked to help us in evading difficulties instead of conquering them. Principles of Freedom Men of Galloway!" cried Dornoch, "heed not the mawkish cries of this upstart stripling. The Thirsty Sword Besides, here there was one man, and he with his ailments and his continual mawkish kisses, was like an old grandfather for ever shedding tears of joy. Love An admirable book recommended especially to those who detest alike the mawkish sentiment of the "best-seller" and the revolting realistic novels of our day. One Hundred Best Books It is a good deal better than seal-oil, which to a southern palate is sweet, mawkish, and sickly. The New North How nobly Browning set this forth in his Epilogue: What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Quit Your Worrying! In 1831 there followed a volume of poems, the sentimental and rather mawkish 'Fantasies and Sketches,' product of a journey in Jutland and of a silly love affair. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Whereas Tom in the quoted scene is nothing if not conventional and drawn in the stock tradition of mawkish heroics. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities To him they were weak and mawkish, and in him they would have been treacherous. Paul Faber, Surgeon Something of the same disagreeable quality is present in the rather mawkish discussion between her two young brothers. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England We ate some, and pronounced them to be but mawkish things. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil TOBY-DOG But I'm afraid of hurting her—and my tongue, horrified, tastes the slimy mawkish stuff. Barks and Purrs So even Lapo Cercamorte became a flabby fool, when he met one in comparison with whom all other women seemed mawkish. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Having cut off one's hand, I am sure grandmamma would say it would be drivelling and mawkish to meditate over each drop of blood. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel I can't be friendly with a woman without drifting into mawkish tenderness—there's the simple truth. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories This little story fills about twenty-five quarto pages; and abounds, of course, with mawkish sentiment, and details of preposterous minuteness. Famous Reviews A devil's pluck thou'rt wont to show; As for a devil who despairs— Nothing I find so mawkish here below. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. This necessary defect is observable in his best works, and is still more so in Fleetwood and Mandeville; the one of which, compared with his more admired performances, is mawkish, and the other morbid. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits It became between us two a fair exchange—a barter—and no more; and there is no such balance against me that I need throw in a mawkish forgiveness to poise the scale. Martin Chuzzlewit Passive happiness is slack and insipid, and soon grows mawkish and intolerable. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature To her a mawkish drab of spurious breed, Who deals in sentimentals, will succeed! She Stoops to Conquer He was astonished at its religious tone, which seemed to him neither mawkish nor sentimental. Of Human Bondage His true reaction was neither fear nor sorrow—only this deep delight in being with her that colored the banality of his words and made the mawkish seem sad and the posturing seem wise. The Beautiful and Damned But there is such a sickening lot of mawkish sentiment mixed up with nearly every scheme to benefit workers. The Price of Things Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, beer; Though stale, not ripe; though thin, yet never clear; 170 So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong; o'erflowing, though not full. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 The house seemed to be unusually stuffy, and the spectacle of Lizzie gazing at him with mawkish interest, made him wish to rise up and assault her. The Foolish Lovers So again at his first meeting with Elizabeth, Carlos is distressingly mawkish. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Are you not ashamed not to be able to plead against perils threatening your grey hairs, but you must needs be ambitious of hearing mawkish compliments to your 'good taste'? Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Herself full of mawkish sentimentality, her verses could not fail to be foolish, their whole impulse being the ambition that springs from self-admiration. Heather and Snow There was a wholesomeness and purity everywhere about her, very welcome to the lady-eyes with which Alice was born; for it is God that makes ladies, not stupid society and its mawkish distinctions. There & Back "They call you mawkish," I dared to say. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett She has none of that mawkish, hysterical humanitarianism which of late years has become a salient feature in our campaigning. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Speaking of Vaucluse, the author says: "It is more agreeable to contemplate Petrarch in these haunts, as the laborious student retired from the world, than as the mawkish lover sighing for a married mistress." In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc He went over the list of those he had specified, and I hung my head in shame and pity; it really had such an effect of mawkish sentimentality. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Feeling by itself, however, that came and went without correspondent action, he counted not only weak and mawkish, but tending to the devilish. There & Back The Edmenegarda, which first won him repute, was perhaps not more youthful, but it was a subject that appealed peculiarly to the heart of youth, and was sufficiently mawkish. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions If you mix me up with that mawkish theoretical twaddler you simply prove that you know nothing of my manuscript, though it has been in your hands. The Possessed (The Devils) I am not pleading for any mawkish sentimentality, but for a manly peacefulness which comes from holiness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark I tried two or three times to turn a pretty thought, or to utter a fine sentiment; but it would come forth so trite, so forced, so mawkish, that I was ashamed of it. The Crayon Papers The girls were so silly, the men so inane, and the things they said so mawkish and colourless! There & Back I made one, and Colman thought it too bad to be spoken; I was obliged, therefore, to try a fourth time, and I made a very mawkish thing, as you'll shortly see. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography But when Braun gave vent to certain mawkish expressions of enthusiasm, he would stop playing, and go up to his room without a word. Jean-Christophe Journey's End This is mawkish; but it will serve to show on what terms the woman and boy were. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day He loved her with the hero worship of a boy, but also with a humour, a consciousness of success, a happy freedom that denied all mawkish sham sentiment. Fortitude There's a wild, primitive strain in her; she's not to be wooed and won in the usual silly mawkish way. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Fronto suffered acutely from the gout, and the tender solicitude displayed by Aurelius for his preceptor's ailments is pleasant to see, though the tone of condolence is sometimes a little mawkish. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Though savouring of that mawkish elaboration which then began to taint local art and literature and is bound up with the name of the poet Marino, it is still a passably virile figure. Old Calabria Why, young goose," he yelled out—"of all the miserable weak rubbish I ever tried, Ariadne in Naxos is the most mawkish and disgusting. The History of Pendennis A couple of bottles were then produced by the postmaster; but it was mawkish stuff, as sweet as syrup, and quite flavourless. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán We were never mawkish; we were just good citizens of Little Rivers, weren't we? Over the Pass Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse By flippant spouter, emptiest of praters: Tell him to seek them in some mawkish verse: My periods all are rough as nutmeg graters. The Anatomy of Melancholy The bearded men-saints were extinct; in the place of them this mawkish, sub-sexual love for the Virgin developed a corresponding type of adorer—clean-shaven, emasculate youths, posing in ecstatic attitudes with a nauseous feminine smirk. Old Calabria This horrid business, at another time, would have made me sick as any dog, but there was no time to yield to mawkish susceptibilities in the face of such danger as menaced us. A Set of Rogues There is an entire absence of mawkish sentimentality, of effort to conceal the secret motives and desires of the heart beneath specious language and words of double meaning. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century This mawkish element unfortunately survives in much of the author's later verse. Byron Gray says, "It is slightly acid, mawkish, eaten by pigs and boys." Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 If trouble came, he promised to act promptly and forcefully, and not to let mawkish sentiment encourage further violence. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 Not to grow mawkish while we must be kind, let us not forget that this woman is an old plotter. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth Only do not make it an excuse for getting mawkish sympathy. Men Women and God It is frightfully dull, and there is so much discussion and preaching in it that it is mawkish. Letters of Anton Chekhov No one is less of a mere mawkish amateur. Italian Hours The story of Margaret, indeed, though "it abounds, of course, with mawkish sentiment and details of preposterous minuteness, has considerable pathos". English literary criticism The craving for escape may be, and usually is, answered by sentimental romance, where every emotion, from patriotism to amorousness, is mawkish and unreal. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism There was only a mawkish color reprint of "Mary Stuart and Rizzio" parading its faded romance in the show window. The Midnight Passenger : a novel After travelling abroad, life at a summer villa seems a little mawkish. Letters of Anton Chekhov In Miss Broughton's determination not to be mawkish and missish, she has made her ladies do and say things which ladies would not do and say. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope No one cares to be harassed by these miserable, mawkish details. Her Weight in Gold He could not be swayed by mawkish sentimental sympathy, nor could he be bullied. Youth Challenges The poems were not great, some of them indeed were nothing less than mawkish, but perhaps they did not deserve the slashing review which appeared in the Edinburgh Review. English Literature for Boys and Girls Our colleague here informs us that you are sick of these mawkish royalists, and are willing to serve the Republic. La Vendée Only her worm had a face and shape the very image of her own; and she looked so simpering, and mawkish, and self-conscious, and silly, that she made the wise woman feel rather sick. A Double Story "Would to God I had millions to lavish on you!" he exclaimed, with tears of mawkish feeling and honest affection mingled as they never should in a true man's eyes. Without a Home But One there is more sage in that Caress, Raising no mawkish Pennant of Distress, But when I tip the Osculative Brim Accepts the Kiss in Silent Thankfulness. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Luckily these fantastic humours, merging from the gruesome into the mawkish, were counteracted and balanced by more serious influences undergone at school at the hands of my teachers and schoolfellows. My Life — Volume 1 Then, too, some mawkish people to-day are fond of putting the whole evil on low wages as a cause. The Ear in the Wall Of course one cannot tell it all down to each mawkish word of humbugging sentiment. The American Senator If coffee is not muddy and thick and does not possess a mawkish twang of liquorice, it is suspected. Confessions of a Beachcomber Do you know, I couldn't help it; but that good lady would seem to me quite mawkish in her flattery! Magnum Bonum But the late thunder-storm had rendered the ground very damp, and that with the mawkish smell of our drying meat, soon made our camp very disagreeable. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 I hate that mawkish kind of nonsense," continued Miss Day, looking very virtuous, "and I think Miss Heath ought to know about it, and put a stop to it. A Sweet Girl Graduate Here is the same kind of saccharine melody that makes mawkish the trio in the "Marche Funebre." Chopin : the Man and His Music It is plain that our meat-eating ancestors would think in this way, and, being unrestrained by the mawkish sentiment attendant upon high civilization, would act habitually upon the obvious suggestion. The Fiend's Delight |
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