Word: mawkishness
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...type of painting that many collectors thought good in Robinson's day was the storytelling picture that would run a sugary gamut from coy to mawkish. Robinson himself turned out a few canvases with titles such as A Canine Patient and A Rail Fence Flirtation, but he did not tolerate that kind of "potboiling" for long. He first went to France when he was only 24, and there he gradually fell under the spell of the new painters. Though the paintings of his good friend Monet made him "blue with envy." he took away only a fresh appreciation...
...sharp insider's insight into Washington and the U.S. Senate that provided much of the book's fascination. In A Shade of Difference onetime U.N. Correspondent Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself. But the reader who managed to sit through Drury's long Senate sessions with rapt attention is more likely to doze when...
Miss Clarke's screenplay is an improvement on the Miller novel, just as The Connection was an improvement on the Gelber play. She has tightened the structure and cut out a mawkish ending...
...story makes Agganis a kind of displaced restaurateur who soothes the ulcers of "Mr. General," the camp commander (Roland Winters), with such far-out Hellenic treats as octopus and goats' bladders. The resulting buddyhood is so mawkish that most of Act II goes down the sentimental drain. There are two rowdy high spots. At one point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled...
...really no center. Sometimes the charm of Carnival! is real, sometimes synthetic. Sometimes the show expresses a circus world, sometimes it merely exploits it. Love, again, comes to seem more of a refrain than a reality, a happenstance that can make it peculiarly sweet in places but also quite mawkish in others. A famous axiom holds good in Carnival!: the audience's heart is most touched when least tugged...