| 21. | :BBC for me, but even that I find to be excessively mawkish.
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| 22. | If you're too cynical, perhaps that seems maudlin or mawkish or overwrought.
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| 23. | Lloyd Kramer's direction is neither mawkish nor tough; it is simply pedestrian.
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| 24. | The president was wise to avoid any mawkish apology for America's wartime involvement.
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| 25. | Finally, turn on the mawkish resolve.
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| 26. | When Spielberg worked this theme in the past, his films tended to turn mawkish.
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| 27. | He admired Child, but he wasn't going to get mawkish and sentimental.
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| 28. | Plotless, mawkish and wholly unfunny ."
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| 29. | But the children are so natural that they prevent the film from becoming mawkish or coy.
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| 30. | Rick maunders on at mawkish length about how someday the two of them will be free.
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