Meanings of mawkish sentimentality in English

Suspicion, hate, tyranny, fear, mawkish sentimentality, mad desire, were in the air.

Right-wingers called it ' mawkish sentimentality' but I think it's the opposite.

So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality?

And the whole thing is rotten with mawkish sentimentality, and false prudery, and abeyance of common sense.

They are fine and virile, with underlying sentiment, yet free from the faintest suspicion of mawkish sentimentality.

I am not pleading for any mawkish sentimentality, but for a manly peacefulness which comes from holiness.

I hate your mawkish sentimentality, Lotte.

I shall tell them that our courts, swamped with mawkish sentimentality, are no longer fit instruments to safeguard the public peace!

He was blaming the mawkish sentimentality of the modern legal system which ranks the evisceration and secret burial of small boys as a crime.

You owe nothing to Heinzman; but something to what you would probably call repentance, but which is in reality a mawkish sentimentality of weakness.

IN MODERN culture, the death of a major celebrity is the occasion for an accelerated frenzy of retrospection, speculation and outpourings of often mawkish sentimentality.