- all its
contrivances and
occasional lapses into On
Golden Pond-style
mawkishness, this is a
richly crafted yarn that
boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
-
goodwill of its
people that
neither revels in
irony nor
descends into
mawkishness. A film
based on the book was
directed by Ed Bye and
starred Tony Hawks...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
- the men and
women in the
Police Service of
Northern Ireland without mawkishness" that
despite "some
procedural howlers that have
clearly been let loose...
- film
three and a half out of four
stars and wrote, "This
could have been
mawkish—an "eat your vegetables"
movie about an
inspirational figure overcoming...
- and even
humorously with a
difficult situation without descending into
mawkishness". In general, The
Guardian faulted the
Daily Mail for
suggesting that...
- all the
girls he's
loved before—and to Streep, who
alchemizes literary mawkishness into
intelligent movie p****ion." The
Bridges of
Madison County tied with...
- had written. "Yesterday" has also been
criticised for
being mundane and
mawkish. Bob
Dylan had a
marked dislike for the song,
stating that "If you go into...
-
Collin of The
Daily Telegraph gave the film 1 star out of 5, and said "
Mawkishness, **** panic, and lazy
jokes make
Vince Vaughn's
workplace comedy considerably...
- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
