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The screens also flash “pause” and “stop” before the two intermissions and the final scene, mawkishly calling attention to the audience as spectators.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022

But by then it’s too late: when the show finally looks more closely at the women Mitch has messed with, it’s only to exploit their trauma, mawkishly so.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

Shockingly contrived for such a short picture, “Say My Name” implodes further into its artistic mediocrity due to a mawkishly unnecessary subplot that materializes near the end of its final act.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2019

Her work, by turns mawkishly sentimental and quotably confessional, makes her the Rod McKuen of her generation.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2017

He could not help being amused; Rachael had become so mawkishly morose.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick