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Significats de mawkish en anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "sentimental"
Examples for "sentimental"
1
The morning breeze is to the strong the moonlight of the sentimental.
2
The defense of reputation has two aspects: the practical and the sentimental.
3
But it's not a fluffy, cute or sentimental story, quite the contrary.
4
No; it was not a sentimental story-itwas the old sea-fight again.
5
Businesses were not sentimental just because there was a ceasefire, she said.
1
However, it did seem to bring him out of his maudlin humour.
2
She sighed, aware that the drink had sent her into self-pitying maudlin.
3
There shall be permitted no maudlin sentiment of pity in this undertaking.
4
They stopped at the gate to bid each other a maudlin farewell.
5
Until you chuck that maudlin bunch of slush and scenery at us.
1
They had mushy undertones but they were good movies with defined intentions.
2
The splinters were gone from it now; it was growing soft, mushy.
3
And don't get all mushy on me-notthat that's likely to happen.
4
No matter how mushy Custer sounded, she wanted to finish the interview.
5
Just don't tell Dave that, he already thinks I'm way too mushy.
1
Road surfaces are very slushy, the Southland District Council advised this morning.
2
The voice that came over the ship channel was slushy and drugged.
3
Technology turned those sounds into taps on slushy snow or hard ice.
4
Myrrima crept along the edge of the wood, walking in slushy snow.
5
The next step I took filled my hiking boots with slushy ooze.
1
His head was a soupy mess, and it was hard to focus.
2
Chasing her down would be no great task, given her current soupy condition.
3
A young male voice, cranked tense with chemicals, floated across the soupy water.
4
You want this chowder to be soupy but not too thin.
5
A faint but welcome breeze stirred like a ladle through the soupy fog.
1
Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of hokey backslapping.
2
It's just hokey atmospherics, of course, but it sends a message.
3
Without being hokey, it makes me feel hopeful about the future of humanity.
4
Really hokey, but really scary and weird at the same time.
5
That would be a lot less derivative and just as much hokey fun.
1
Expect a lot of soppy loved up tunes from here on in.
2
And she would certainly not get soppy about a marriage like theirs.
3
My cotton just became soppy and I was ever so much heavier!
4
I hadn't meant to get all soppy like this today anyway.
5
Humane liberalism is at the soppy, shameful heart of this indefensible seal hunt.
1
Granted, June and Harry start off so drippy their scenes require damp-proofing.
2
Can drippy Rebecca lift those feet that seem nailed to the stage?
3
She nodded and wiped at her drippy nose with a clean handkerchief.
4
Gone is the great, jazzy theme, criminally replaced by some drippy electro pap.
5
And a queer creature in drippy white came crawling out of-
1
Yes, the clothes and music of the 1980s might seem kitschy now.
2
I've never seen Fengdu as anything but a cheap, kitschy tourist trap.
3
The kitschy culture and fickle habits that infested your forever-adolescent America.
4
In the beginning, it was a kitschy trifle, a grassroots kind of thing.
5
They're cute, a little kitschy, and actually still kind of inspiring.
1
A face that could carry extremes of emotion and not look bathetic.
2
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic.
3
To Jude's eye the effect of such efforts was always bathetic.
4
Other than the bathetic speech-making, there's virtually no drama in this misbegotten hokum.
5
All faces turned to him with a kind of bathetic wonderment.
1
It's the middle finger to every schmaltzy prom film you've ever seen.
2
It was a saccharine performance of the schmaltzy pop-soul number Love on Top.
3
Not the fairy-tale brand of love, saccharine and schmaltzy, but the enduring kind.
4
I'm not being schmaltzy here, or maybe I am, but I'm also being sincere.
5
I feel like kids' movies are now always animation or schmaltzy or PG13 superhero films.
Ús de mawkish en anglès
1
He wrote her a mawkish letter; read it; and tore it up.
2
Given the pair's songwriting proclivities, one might have expected something unspeakably mawkish.
3
Now here's where the case gets both real interesting and real mawkish.
4
Cue that dreadful, mawkish Saturday Night Live Hallelujah thing with Kate McKinnon.
5
A mawkish regard for delicacy might have kept this disclosure to yourself.
6
So again at his first meeting with Elizabeth, Carlos is distressingly mawkish.
7
After travelling abroad, life at a summer villa seems a little mawkish.
8
Suspicion, hate, tyranny, fear, mawkish sentimentality, mad desire, were in the air.
9
The emotional pallet is oversimplified, conveyed with gaunt puppets and mawkish music.
10
Sometimes these tributes to the theatrical dead can seem mawkish and overblown.
11
Right-wingers called it 'mawkish sentimentality' but I think it's the opposite.
12
I think about it all the time, but not in a mawkish way.
13
I think the society of women and children very mawkish for a continuance.
14
He had read enough of the mawkish lines to be sure of that.
15
He hesitated, did not attack frankly, wasted time in mawkish and affected phrases.
16
So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality?
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