41. After his mawkish work as the big-daddy commander in " We Were Soldiers," 42. A tearful farewell scene is captured for all its mawkish sentiment by an intrusive television crew from CNN. 43. Zimerman gave a beautifully detailed reading that was forceful but never forced, and romantically steamy without becoming mawkish . 44. So good that you go with the movie emotionally even as, intellectually, you reject its mawkish manipulations. 45. Throughout the film, Washington keeps a tight rein on material that could easily have drifted into the mawkish . 46. The mawkish realism of the passages has an aura of bathos that is not only unreal but unmoving ." 47. He contrasts practical compassion with what he sees as the " mawkish sentimentality " and selfishness of conspicuous compassion. 48. If the pitch seems almost mawkish in tone, then that's precisely where Dan Leonard is coming from. 49. It's one of those unbearably mawkish songs that seems to have been written in consultation with Oscar voters. 50. Smith writes songs with lyrics that might look mawkish on the page, often bemoaning the loves that got away.
