11. But the mood was bulldozed quickly by the mawkishness of the " Fledermaus" 12. The movie never dips into easy " Touched by an Angel " mawkishness . 13. "The Lovely Bones " is a sweet novel that resolutely shuns mawkishness . 14. Director Michael Lehman does little to deflect it, so the movie consistently dices with mawkishness . 15. And you have to avoid mawkishness . 16. An even smaller minority reacted violently against what they saw as the mawkishness of public sentiment. 17. Eastwood risks embarrassment flirting with material this naked in its mawkishness , then jumps right in. 18. But The Lovely Bones is a moving novel that manages an affirmative spirit without descending into mawkishness . 19. On the other hand, the playwright creates expeditious scenes that end well before mawkishness can set in. 20. "Twisted " seesaws between this kind of mawkishness and harsh scenes of sexually-edged brutality.
