| 单词 | mawkishness |
| 例句 | Mr Francis avoids mawkishness, even when his patients are facing death, mostly by allowing them to speak for themselves. Life in the round 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Craig's novel is perhaps the most obviously sentimental, although she tells her story with such a fine touch that it never descends into mawkishness. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z Reencountered here, is this mawkishness being reclaimed in an act of grace? A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z If that means that “The Prom” trades in some of the same cheesy mawkishness it satirizes, that’s O.K. ‘The Prom’ Review: Bringing Jazz Hands to the Heartland 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Together with Lafosse’s intimate direction and the film’s lack of a score, this helps “The Restless” avoid any mawkishness that might have come from its premise. ‘The Restless’ Review: The Painful Cycles of Mental Illness 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z These public efforts bring authenticity to the play but also permission to explore its frank humanity without mawkishness. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z That unfortunate tendency is particularly evident in the final scene, an irritatingly unlikely denouement in which all common sense is jettisoned and mawkishness prevails. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Bucky is one of the world's decent men and is portrayed with profound sympathy and without mawkishness. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z For a drama today, the risk would be sanctimony or mawkishness. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Reunion: Isolate Yo’ Self 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste. Crime Sprees, Both Creepy and Comic 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z But, as much as he tried to make the Broadway musical "cinematic", such as using flashbacks, it defeated him, replacing cynicism with mawkishness. Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The Alcott verses, with their references to “Christmas fairies” and “chanting cherubs,” supply most of the mawkishness. Review | If you want to steer clear of Scrooge, two stages provide different holiday fare 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Heard at the second performance on Wednesday, the score leans on Ms. Higdon’s persistent weaknesses — namely, a tendency toward mawkishness — and stints her gifts for teasing out creative orchestral colors and instrumental combinations. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Such little detours add a lighthearted gloss to a delicate film that steers clear of preaching or of slipping into mawkishness. Review: ‘Learning to Drive’ Charts a Culture-Bridging Friendship 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z For all its later outbreaks of Vonnadorian mawkishness, The Humans still deserves to live long and prosper. The Humans by Matt Haig – review 2013-05-15T07:00:04Z I edit the site, and I chose it because it's a gripping read, featuring two compelling characters, that deals sensitively and even humorously with a difficult situation without descending into mawkishness. 'Sick-lit'? Evidently young adult fiction is too complex for the Daily Mail 2013-01-04T16:34:11Z A vampy, jazzy “16 Tons” sinks like a stone; so does “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” a piece of mawkishness so pure that switching to a female narrator doesn’t alter the song’s impact very much. New Music: Mindless Behavior and LeAnn Rimes - Review 2011-09-26T22:44:16Z Even when Kit warms up to Sunny, Halpern never lets them fall into mawkishness. The Turbulent Life of the Small-Town Librarian 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Throughout “We Were Here” there is not a hint of mawkishness, self-pity or self-congratulation. | 'We Were Here': ?We Were Here,? a Documentary About AIDS in San Francisco - Review 2011-09-08T23:58:13Z There’s some sadness and tears, but never pity or mawkishness. Review: ‘Becoming Bulletproof’ Follows a Group of Disabled Adults in a Film Within a Film 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The news of Dionne's illness is treated gently, too, avoiding the potential for mawkishness, while the whole thing appears to be left rather open for a second bout. TV highlights 10/04/2013 2013-04-10T06:00:04Z But there are bursts of mawkishness and melodrama. 'Upstairs, Downstairs' sequel on TV; superior original now on DVD 2011-04-06T22:16:04Z It’s likely that no one needs to hear another chorus of “Tomorrow,” but Ms. Swickle renders it with a laudable lack of mawkishness. Review: ‘Annie’ and ‘Elf: The Musical’ Stay Kid-Friendly 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Suggested synonyms for the word include not only sentimentalism, but mawkishness, maudlinism, melodramatics, mushiness – a host of “m” words to make the whole idea quite unappealing. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z After a tragedy “Parked” collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney’s dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness. Movie Review: Colm Meaney in ‘Parked,’ About Ireland’s Homeless 2012-11-30T00:25:06Z It slips into mawkishness once, on a reprise of The Birds that sets an elderly vocalist against a cooing choral backdrop, an idea that rather overdoes the album's theme of the passing of time. Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! ? review 2011-03-03T15:30:01Z But where the execution of those storylines has garnered some criticism for moments of mawkishness or overwrought dialogue, it’s more successful in its honest depiction of cancer—or, at least, one specific cancer story. How 'Miss You Already' Prevails Against the Harmful Mythology of the Cancer Hero 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But while it's undeniably sentimental to the point of mawkishness, much of the joy of pretty good movies has to do with what the viewer brings to them. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z On the one side, you've got mawkishness and pat homilies about free will and mind over matter, and on the other, you've got unreadable despair. The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait – review 2013-04-13T10:31:01Z That is more than can be said for other structures, which mistake scale for sentiment and mawkishness for power but which, because of the sensitivity of the subject, people have found difficult to oppose. We have the cenotaph: we don't need more memorials 2010-07-12T07:00:00Z But it’s Fraser’s smart, humane, vulnerable performance that too often seems trapped, in this case by a film whose mawkishness so oppressively weighs him down. Review | ‘The Whale’: Brendan Fraser is great, the movie not so much 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z All that signaling serves to diminish the impact of a not unanticipated “shock” denouement that strives for poignancy but ultimately flirts with mawkishness. Review: Unfortunately, 'The Son,' starring Hugh Jackman, does not take after 'The Father' 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Of course, as a Briton, I am aware of the narrow line, often overstepped, between whimsy and mawkishness. From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, Roth wisely manages to avoid excess mawkishness and keeps the action moving apace. Review: Outrunning Nazis in compelling family drama 'Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog' 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Red Smith immortalized Hogan’s performance, “Maybe once in the lifetime of any of us it is possible to say with accuracy and without mawkishness, ‘This was a spiritual victory, an absolute triumph of will!’” Under Current Rules, Golf’s Most Memorable U.S. Open Playoffs Wouldn’t Have Happened 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The emperor made his entrance to the blaring mawkishness of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” and actually hugged a large American flag, while grinning ear to ear. Can America recover from Trump? A radicalized right wing suggests dangers ahead 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z You know Fox News pundits are desperate when they resort to this level of mawkishness about veterans. Fox News tackles Flynn memo with usual formula for bad Trump news: Distract, minimize, distort 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms Kilalea sketches this sad, slightly surreal situation without mawkishness or morbidity. A startling debut novel from a South African poet 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But one of Ni no Kuni's most impressive aspects is that, while it is constantly enchanting, it never, for a moment, descends into mawkishness. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – review 2013-01-17T15:31:40Z In the Bible the beauty of women is frankly spoken of without prudery or mawkishness as an influence in human affairs. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z The cheek that was turned to the smiter must be soundly thwacked to prevent a recurrence in the future of ill-judged and degrading mawkishness. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Your hardness—I said it was a fine want of mawkishness. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z There is no mark of mawkishness in the book. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z He could imagine the Old Doctor's impotent wrath over such a contingency, yet he felt no sentimental mawkishness over his own position. 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 They have borne every trial to which they have been subjected with more than Spartan, with old-English fortitude, the fortitude that existed before mawkishness and mock sentiment had made men maudlin. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z In this expectancy of death there is no mawkishness, no pose. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Among the many small personalities, one man follows only the ideal of mercy, and as his mercy has not in it the stern stuff of justice, it degenerates into mawkishness and sentimental humanitarianism. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It was agreed that this mawkishness was an unfortunate legacy from the house of ----. On the Heights A Novel The cult of the child has, perhaps, been overdone in recent years, and we have brought our mawkishness and our morbid analysis even to the side of the cradle. The Book of This and That The shameful sufferings of English children to-day are jointly the work of the English bench and the English brute: of mawkishness on the bench, of cruelty in the brute. Some Conditions of Child Life in England Thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages. Life of John Keats If a theory be advanced that opens up the Scriptures, and especially the prophecies, better than those before existing, let the pulpit accept it, throwing aside its mawkishness and age-intrenched stupidity. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 She was told that it bored him to play the lover; that his misconduct was her fault; and then she was accused of mawkishness! The Bertrams Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness. Washington Irving ‘A Story of Sorrow and Crime’ is an affecting monitory sketch, devoid of that mawkishness which is sometimes the characteristic of kindred performances. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Yet even now as I write, looking back over the years, I can not, when I accuse myself of mawkishness, be altogether convinced by the self-denunciation. The King's Mirror The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries I do not profess to be a very painstaking lover; nay, if you will, the life would bore me, even if in our case the mawkishness of the delay did not do more than bore. The Bertrams Far from it; he is as high and as keen, as removed from softness and mawkishness, as ascetic and as reverential, as any bishop among them. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Your idealism is admirable, permanent, and shatter-proof; but your starry-eyed schoolgirl's mawkishness is none of the three. The Galaxy Primes He was fundamentally normal—fundamentally wholesome—with no trace of mawkishness in his nature. The Seventh Noon In treating such a theme as friendship, the worst dangers are hardness and levity on the one extreme, exaggeration and mawkishness on the other, and cowardice and squeamishness between. The Friendships of Women The worst that can be said of it is that its suavity inclines to mawkishness, and that its quietism borders upon sleepiness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays All his writings, including his delightful letters as well as his poetry, are remarkably free from mawkishness and mere sentimentality. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century The childish bombast of "Titus Andronicus," the commonplace of Wordsworth, the frequent inanity of the youthful Coleridge and the youthful Byron, Shelley's extravagance, Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions. Life of John Milton If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness. 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 Then follows a tirade on the variety of his subjects; their depth, their significance, and the mawkishness and pedantry which they are intended to confute. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) This the pure young creature refused to do, with that exaggerated modesty which has been called mawkishness in the story, but which in a real occurrence looks very like heroism. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 With 'Uncle MARK' in the chair, I knew there would be neither austere autocracy, nor fain�ant laxity, neither weakness of stroke nor foulness of blow, neither Rosa-Matilda-ish, mawkishness, nor Rabelaisian coarseness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891 He had wit, originality, and pathos, though the last not seldom runs into mawkishness, and an exquisitely delicate and glancing style. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 In particular, readers emancipated by lapse of time from the enslavement of the first enthusiasm, have quarrelled with the mawkishness and sentimentality of his pathos, and with the exaggeration of his studies of character. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge You see," he murmured in Alexander's ear, as the curtain fell on the first act, "one almost never sees a part like that done without smartness or mawkishness. Alexander's Bridge The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him. The Market-Place On the other hand, his faults are obvious, a tendency to caricature, a mannerism that often tires, and almost disgusts, fun often forced, and pathos not seldom degenerating into mawkishness. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Find some wholesome, right-minded woman, Mr. Ashe; love her and marry her, and be done with all this wretched, unwholesome mawkishness. The Puritans As the ideal flatteries, for whose sake the gods have been brought down from Olympus, are but too apt to fall into mawkishness, this antidote on such occasions is certainly deserving of commendation. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Seldom has more exaltation of thought or intensity of feeling been infused, without mawkishness or exaggeration, into a work of art. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness, pugnacious without brutality. Without Prejudice Both have the heroic quality, both are free from mawkishness and are of the greater Chopin, the Chopin of the mode masculine. Chopin : the Man and His Music Jessica melted into mawkishness; none the less, Nancy felt a slave to her former friend, who, for whatever reason, seemed to have grown hypocritical and spiteful. In the Year of Jubilee Trope, imagery, mawkishness, were all absent, for Borrow had gone back to his masters, at whose head stood the glorious Defoe. The Life of George Borrow It has escaped every pitfall of mawkishness, stubbornly refused to descend to mere prettiness, and lived up to the noblest possibilities of its theme. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition I have not a particle of sympathy with the sentimentality—as I deem it, the mawkishness—which overflows with foolish pity for the criminal and cares not at all for the victim of the criminal. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography When animals must obey, they must—that's all, and no mawkishness! The Last of the Plainsmen |
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