| 31. | Cullum's strapping presence gave the original production a backbone, and the cutting clarity of his singing voice held the mawkishness in check.
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| 32. | Gary Lennon's screenplay is tough-minded enough to avoid a disease-of-the-week mawkishness that the theme invites.
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| 33. | The actor and his director, Michael Warren Powell, try to convey the disease's life-threatening capacity without lapsing into mawkishness.
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| 34. | The work's tendency toward mawkishness, always a problem, is compounded ( and intentionally, judging by the syrupy background music ).
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| 35. | If " The West Wing " is loaded with realism undercut by mawkishness, " Amy " turns that pattern upside down.
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| 36. | He emphasizes that the style of the story must be " admirably satiric, ironic " to avoid any hint of mawkishness or self-pity.
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| 37. | Parker handles the chemotherapy scenes with a minimum of mawkishness : " They said he'd lose his appetite during the sessions and he did.
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| 38. | But as the cool sarcasm of its opening scenes slides inexorably toward the mawkishness of its denouement, " Dream With the Fishes " loses steam.
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| 39. | Although much of the movie's tone was developed as it was rehearsed and shot, Salles knew from the first he could not slide into mawkishness.
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| 40. | The nine stories in " Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage " brim with emotion and pathos, but never once deteriorate into mawkishness.
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