Sentences with phrase «on mawkishness»

Dear John is built on mawkishness and it brings everything it touches down to that level.

But the commercial starts, and it never eases up on the mawkishness.

Not exact matches

But though certainly corny on occasion, this drama manages to mostly avoid the mawkishness and amateur hour feel too often attached to religious and spiritual cinema.

Evans keeps the story on track and doesn't slip into mawkishness or bathos.

It's endearing in its mawkishness, and the storybook nature of its narrative is of the same quality you'd find on a child's bedside table, but it isn't a satisfying game to play despite the contrivances it makes in an attempt to fool you into thinking it is.