(1) It was time to branch out a little, and if it took Zooey Deschanel to push me off the cliff of cutesy little dresses and into the world of more adult dressing, well, question not the means but welcome the result.
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
(4) So I carved the – sickeningly cutesy – pet name she'd given me.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Other late-night shows always seemed to find it harder to take on Trump at all – Jimmy Fallon took on a significant amount of criticism for having the candidate on The Tonight Show for a cutesy interview late in the campaign , while Saturday Night Live has been struggling to play catch-up since the ethical lapse of Trump’s bland hosting gig late last year.
(6) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.
(7) This combination of cutesy characteristics is impossible to resist.
(8) The current posture from Abbott and the Coalition is not all smoke and mirrors and cutesy politics.
(9) He knew the darker side and what it means to have demons,” Gilliam said, adding that Williams helped to turn the scenes from “cutesy” on the page to something much darker.
(10) The two most likely, however, are JJ Abrams's spy drama The Undercovers, a Hart to Hart for the 21st century starring Britain's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and the cutesy rom-com Love Bites, Working Title's first production for US television .
(11) Cutesy euphemisms are used, like wine o’clock and mummy petrol.
(12) At times it’s in danger of veering into annoyingly cutesy Kids Say the Funniest Things territory, but then the kids are often as funny as the adults.
(13) Cutesy graphics and a nagging chiptune soundtrack made this under-the-radar game one of the most appealing Android releases of 2014 so far: easy to play, but difficult to put down.
(14) When Poehler self-deprecates, she doesn’t do it in a charming, cutesy-wootsy way, but rather an honest way, and then counters it with some self-pride and self-awareness.
(15) But why can't someone write a female equivalent of, say, the mock-biopic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, so Anna Faris could expand on her scene-stealing Britney Spears impersonation from Just Good Friends with a potted send-up of half a century of girly music, instead of being stuck in cutesy fluff like The House Bunny?
(16) 5 Rose Cottage, Mojandita, Otavalo As the name might suggest, this Andean resting spot is part-British owned, which also shows in the country-garden flowers and cutesy cabins.
(17) We’re taking a slightly more disciplined approach now: no building in the cluster should be trying to shout down its neighbour.” For the past year – since the departure of chief planner Peter Rees, who had a thing for towers with quirky profiles and cutesy nicknames – Richards and his team have been developing a 3D digital model that visualises the invisible planning constraints in the City.
(18) It's a seductive mix of cutesy visuals and extreme blood-splattered chaos.
(19) Some names are a bit cutesy for my liking, but then same-sex couples do not have the thousands of years of precedent to follow, as straight couples do.
(20) Then, like now, I split my time between the brutalist centre of Corby, and a handful of the smaller towns and villages that seem to exist in a different world: Thrapston, Irthlingborough – and Oundle, the cutesy settlement built around the public school of the same name (and, weirdly, the one-time home of Billy Bragg, who wrote his enduring classic A New England at No 15 North Street, two minutes from the short stay car park).
Mawkish
Definition:
(a.) Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
(1) They make you stand with a mangy dog and force you to be mawkish: "This is Fido - he needs a new home.
(2) She is single-minded, but she ramps it up, as if to sabotage journalistic attempts to frame her life in mawkish, triumph-over-adversity terms.
(3) "Without getting too mawkish about it I come from a family which, like lots of families, has been very heavily affected and disfigured by the revolutions and the wars of the last sort of century.
(4) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(5) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(6) Now, for all that we mawkishly spray the bicycles of dead cyclists white and chain them to lamp posts, for all that we heap cellophane-wrapped flowers in remembrance of murder victims and lost celebrities alike, we have never been worse at mourning.
(7) It doesn't do to get mawkish – it's not the end of the world, certainly not for Ross, who is generally thought to feed on adversity and get a bit lazy in good times.
(8) Jacqueline Wilson's brand of naive narrative prevents her books from being mawkish or sentimental.
(9) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
(10) If that makes it sound mawkish or grim, it really isn't: there is sadness and there are regrets, but most of all there is plenty of laughter, lots of fun, tenderness, honesty and plain speaking.
(11) He was very sensitive to the danger that unless they were careful the film could become very mawkish and sentimental, "and there were a lot of nuns present all the time, which always makes you feel a little bit irreverent.
(12) He showed too that he has a nice line in self-deprecation and is capable of altering his register from light to shade, even if the lower-decibel passages sometimes veered toward the mawkish and had one or two unkind voices in the press corps recalling the notorious "quiet man" performance of Iain Duncan Smith.
(13) He is indeed a wonderfully entertaining poet, and his fine judgment in such matters persists in the unprecedentedly personal final poems, "Maren" and "Iona", their tone, as he rightly thought, "not mawkish .
(14) They're corny, mawkish – but they're shameless enough to get you to press the button.
(15) In the light of this merrily unceasing gravy train, it's perhaps a bit rich that anyone, anywhere, is only now criticising Hologram Tupac for making money off a dead man; the past 16 years have been an object lesson in music industry exploitation, and surely it's impossible to sink lower than that mawkish Elton John duet anyway?
(16) People say John Lewis has been canny by making an annual mawkish short film instead of having someone shouting: “It’s deals deals deals at John Lewis this Christmas!”, but this is really taking it up a level.
(17) Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.
(18) True, none of the identikit ballads that have hogged the Christmas No 1 slot since the demise of the Spice Girls are giving Unchained Melody's publishers a squeaky bum – it's unlikely, for instance, that Shayne Ward's That's My Goal will ever be "our song" for any couple – but, Beatles and Spice Girls aside, these ballads are merely continuing a late December tradition of mawkishness and base sentimentality.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s an intriguing take, suggesting an ET-like robot movie with a Spielbergian sense of optimism about the unknown that will hopefully avoid the mawkish sentimentality of the US film-maker’s own AI.
(20) After nearly five decades, I have never been able to tell you that I love you, for fear you will see this as trite and mawkish.