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. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Severn attributes Keats's temporary "mawkishness" to Hunt's society. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
Nicole Cabell's Leila was assured but prone to mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pĂȘcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida] Reference
The film dances on the edge of mawkishness, but pace Kael, never stumbles. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
She was not some silly schoolroom miss, her head stuffed with sugar-spun mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [My Seduction] Reference
He was fundamentally normal -- fundamentally wholesome -- with no trace of mawkishness in his nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
Bucky is one of the world's decent men and is portrayed with profound sympathy and without mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010] Reference
None of this Continental mawkishness that sprang into our lives with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-05] Reference
The dictionary also, as a synonym for sentimentality, gave me mawkishness, and that is what I think she escaped. From Wordnik.com. [Tasha Tudor] Reference
And while "'every' story has been told," you can re-tell them without falling into predictability or mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [Avatar: The Good and The Bad] Reference
I spent the next three days editing the story, making certain that the language was spare and devoid of mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
~ The national orgy of mawkishness that followed the Virginia Tech shootings -- Christopher Hitchens has some opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 4/25/07] Reference
She also frequently drew children, portraying them with much realism, without any trace of sentimentality or mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Mundlak.] Reference
Here Hopkins achieves the most moving performance of his career, showing us the passion and vulnerability of a cloistered intellectual without a trace of mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Flowering Of A Late Bloomer] Reference
His other alternative would have been mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference
There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Richard knew no mawkishness on the score of eavesdropping. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Wilding] Reference
When animals must obey, they must -- that's all, and no mawkishness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
Even "The Night Watch" skips the mawkishness of other Crimson ballads. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
I view the current mawkishness with even more bemused detachment than I did the dead Diana phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Craig Murray] Reference
Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness, pugnacious without brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
When Warner married Rosie, Liddy sniffed and said what I took for faithfulness in Rosie had been nothing but mawkishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Circular Staircase] Reference
The worst that can be said of it is that its suavity inclines to mawkishness, and that its quietism borders upon sleepiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Your idealism is admirable, permanent, and shatter-proof; but your starry-eyed schoolgirl's mawkishness is none of the three. From Wordnik.com. [The Galaxy Primes] Reference
She was told that it bored him to play the lover; that his misconduct was her fault; and then she was accused of mawkishness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
Coppola also avoids the mawkishness that could easily have crept into a story about a neglectful father bonding with his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Arab Times Kuwait English Daily] Reference
Seldom has more exaltation of thought or intensity of feeling been infused, without mawkishness or exaggeration, into a work of art. From Wordnik.com. [The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
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