21. The horrific film of planes crashing into towers was used minimally and the mawkishness was less extreme than usual. 22. His criticism centered on " Ballerina " for its mawkishness and lack of interest in some of the faster songs. 23. Luke is a natural, with an emotional solidity that offsets the layers of mawkishness with which Washington coats the story. 24. Columbus returns to the scene of a crime _ holiday season mawkishness _ that has been berry, berry good to him. 25. Instead she steers the segment toward mawkishness , heavy-handedly demanding that the viewer feel sorry for Redgrave's character. 26. The gooey results are lifted above mawkishness by sincere performances from Gooding and co-star Ed Harris as his mentoring coach. 27. And she traced the expansive emotional path of Schumann's " Frauenliebe und-leben " movingly and without mawkishness . 28. But the generic-sounding ballad " Love Will Find a Way " presents an even bigger problem than its mawkishness . 29. Mawkishness prevails as decades pass so this annoying man can develop into a hero who fights for his school's music program.30. It has to walk a fine line of sentimentality, and a misstep can send it collapsing into the worst kind of maudlin mawkishness .