| 21. | The horrific film of planes crashing into towers was used minimally and the mawkishness was less extreme than usual.
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| 22. | His criticism centered on " Ballerina " for its mawkishness and lack of interest in some of the faster songs.
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| 23. | Luke is a natural, with an emotional solidity that offsets the layers of mawkishness with which Washington coats the story.
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| 24. | Columbus returns to the scene of a crime _ holiday season mawkishness _ that has been berry, berry good to him.
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| 25. | Instead she steers the segment toward mawkishness, heavy-handedly demanding that the viewer feel sorry for Redgrave's character.
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| 26. | The gooey results are lifted above mawkishness by sincere performances from Gooding and co-star Ed Harris as his mentoring coach.
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| 27. | And she traced the expansive emotional path of Schumann's " Frauenliebe und-leben " movingly and without mawkishness.
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| 28. | But the generic-sounding ballad " Love Will Find a Way " presents an even bigger problem than its mawkishness.
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| 29. | Mawkishness prevails as decades pass so this annoying man can develop into a hero who fights for his school's music program.
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| 30. | It has to walk a fine line of sentimentality, and a misstep can send it collapsing into the worst kind of maudlin mawkishness.
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