| 31. | Near the end, when she videotapes the statue, her conclusions are mawkish and obvious.
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| 32. | Certainly, it is an improvement over the mawkish Simon Birch, which it superficially resembles.
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| 33. | If only the movie weren't so eager to dissolve into melodrama and mawkish symbolism.
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| 34. | Bill Clinton says about the haunting but, let's face it, mawkish Beatles song.
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| 35. | But this actor, with his beseeching hound dog look and trembling lower lip never becomes mawkish.
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| 36. | Their naughtiness allows them to voice sentiments that in other hands might be unbearably preachy and mawkish.
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| 37. | Sure the film is sweet, but its humor keeps it from being too sticky and mawkish.
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| 38. | Answer a mawkish sentiment generated by hypocrisy and craven fear with the ringing verdict, Not guilty.
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| 39. | Mawkish and saccharine, it glosses over any real emotion or any explanation of what made Funicello tick.
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| 40. | Being " home " for Christmas is a vital part of the orgiastically mawkish American Christmas.
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