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