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• n  insincere pathos
• n  falsely emotional in a maudlin way

• The Black Prince is a devilish smoker of cigarettes and a virgin, who is torn between self-disgust at this fault and contempt for the mawkishness of teen-age passion.
• There was mawkishness, anger, finger pointing, navel gazing, bathos, pathosevery possible response except forgetting.
• There's none of the mawkishness or attendant melodrama that so often mars Hollywood entertainment for children.

• bathos
• sentimentality
• drippiness
• mushiness
• soupiness
• sloppiness

News & Articles

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• Gimme Shelter
  Obstacle course. by Kelly Vance Gimme Shelter has a few obstacles to overcome. First, it's a social-problem pic, a genre that's always a potential minefield of generalization and mawkishness — in this case the chronicle of an unwanted, homeless, pregnant, sixteen-year old girl named Apple Bailey (played by Vanessa Hudgens from Spring Breakers, Machete Kills, and Sucker Punch), and how she makes ...
  Jan. 24, 2014 - East Bay Express