Translations for „mawkish“ in the English » German Dictionary

mawk·ish [ˈmɔ:kɪʃ, Am esp ˈmɑ:k-] ADJ

mawkish

rührselig

mawkish

sentimental

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English

There is no work is the curse of the drinking classes morality here, no mawkish sentimentality.

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But these straighter stories are less focused, less engaging and vaguely mawkish compared with the sharpness of her more fantastic tales.

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A bit mawkish and effusive too at times, you might say.

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Such book reviews achieved for the novel a certain notoriety for being mawkish and nauseous, unclean, effeminate and contaminating.

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The characters are idealized, the love stories mawkish and clichd, the emotions meant to ground the scientific speculations in lived experience announced rather than established.

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Behind the retailers' mawkish piety, however, lies the cold reality of the balance sheet.

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But it all seems too forced, too easy, too mawkish.

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I find the portrayal of such tragedy to the vulnerable teenager mawkish, reprehensible and even dangerous.

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It is rather a mawkish lamentation upon the hopelessness of love between an art-dedicated violinist and a high-toned lady who lives for self alone....

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The writing is never mawkish, and the two leads are so good they almost make you forget you've seen this story a hundred times before.

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