mawkishness

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  1. Mawkish, sickly, or sickening quality.
  2. Sickly or qualmish sentimentality. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceeds mawkishness. Keats, Endymion, Pref.

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  • "And yet that measured, distant disposition is, in fact, what prevents his latest from sliding into the mawkishness for which it so often seems destined." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Even "The Night Watch" skips the mawkishness of other Crimson ballads. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
  • It's a metaphysical heartbreaking story that avoids mawkishness. —  Bookspotcentral
  • You have to admit to the mawkishness though, Tomm. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • A Chorus Line movie debacle, it tends toward mawkishness-ending on "What I Did For Love" but using "At the Ballet" (the show's quintessential number) for caterwauling comic relief. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
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