| 41. | After his mawkish work as the big-daddy commander in " We Were Soldiers,"
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| 42. | A tearful farewell scene is captured for all its mawkish sentiment by an intrusive television crew from CNN.
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| 43. | Zimerman gave a beautifully detailed reading that was forceful but never forced, and romantically steamy without becoming mawkish.
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| 44. | So good that you go with the movie emotionally even as, intellectually, you reject its mawkish manipulations.
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| 45. | Throughout the film, Washington keeps a tight rein on material that could easily have drifted into the mawkish.
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| 46. | The mawkish realism of the passages has an aura of bathos that is not only unreal but unmoving ."
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| 47. | He contrasts practical compassion with what he sees as the " mawkish sentimentality " and selfishness of conspicuous compassion.
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| 48. | If the pitch seems almost mawkish in tone, then that's precisely where Dan Leonard is coming from.
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| 49. | It's one of those unbearably mawkish songs that seems to have been written in consultation with Oscar voters.
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| 50. | Smith writes songs with lyrics that might look mawkish on the page, often bemoaning the loves that got away.
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