A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.
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Examples for "mawkishness "
Examples for "mawkishness "
1 Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
2 He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
3 His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness .
4 It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
5 And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness .
1 There are moments of great beauty but also moments of great bathos .
2 The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry.
3 His leaving was regrettably messy, prolonged and inevitable and coated in bathos .
4 Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful.
5 The bathos of this visit roused an acid fury in Hilary.
6 These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos .
7 At least pathos can be balanced by bathos in our wondrously varied world.
8 What would a Dickens Christmas tale be without pathos and bathos ?
9 One of their favourite blunders is an amazing sort of bathos .
10 And the result of the effort seemed always to be bathos !
11 The romance of these remarkable espousals was not to find its conclusion in bathos .
12 The bathos of this anti-climax to martyrdom was too grotesque.
13 Does Xenophon feel the bathos of this, or is hdg.
14 Andrea del Sarto sentimentalized the Virgin, turning tenderness to bathos .
15 Braben's rhythms are the quintessential rhythms of British comedy -the comedy of bathos .
16 What a sample of the bathos will his history present!
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