mawkish fatuousness

kept the Master Classman as like director out of mawkishness and torpor

it would be just as unfair to attribute my conviction to mere mawkishness

If the war involved any dignity, it is not deserving of an American audience that will make instantaneous patriotic sap from it. The mawkish standard requires pushback.

“BERNIE SANDERS!” they cry in unison, and mawkishly enough I choke back tears.