(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.
Queasy
Definition:
(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
(1) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(2) Journalists with previous embed experience will feel queasy at reports that Rupert Hamer and his photographer were travelling in a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), the most advanced of all vehicles designed specifically to protect their passengers from fatal injury or death.
(3) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.
(4) And this – this odd feeling you get when you encounter Katrantzou's designs, half-queasy (like her Jewel Tree Dress, the £8,300 piece of "demi-couture" that's based on a Fabergé egg) and half-elated (again, that fabulous Jewel Tree Dress bobbing down a catwalk like someone's brie-affected dream) – this is why we're excited that, with her collection for Topshop hitting stores this week, we'll finally be able to afford a bit ourselves.
(5) I know no critic of Corbyn who isn’t intensely queasy about any move against him any time soon, on both political and democratic grounds.
(6) Despite this queasiness over heavily modified food ( a recent New York Times poll found more than 90% of Americans want GMOs labeled), a new era of so-called “extreme” genetic engineering is already dawning in grocery aisles.
(7) The Paul Flowers scandal has given many of Britain's top institutions reason to feel queasy.
(8) It was not just the tabloid press and the lock 'em up fraternity that felt queasy at the prospect of men who had sexually molested women being given a much more lenient sentence for admitting culpability early on.
(9) But the hard electoral truth is that a party that presents itself as the resistance movement for queasy metropolitan liberals is unlikely ever to be able to form a government (and by the way, Tim Farron got there long before Labour).
(10) Women who used this were regarded with sneaking respect: they were wild enough to have thrown caution to the wind yet sensible enough to reach for the best remedy and brave enough to go through the unpleasant, queasy-making experience.
(11) By the end of February, all was quiet save for global banks routinely updating queasy investors over the tens of billions of dollars they had lost by fuelling the madness we now know as the debt catastrophe.
(12) Both make many of their Lib Dem coalition partners feel queasy.
(13) Incest (Sister), references to rape (Lust U Always), a queasy description of his first sexual partner’s vagina (Schoolyard): before becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, Prince once considered this all fair game in his concerted effort to shock.
(14) Zolpidem, but not triazolam, produced increases in subject ratings of various somatic symptoms (e.g., dizzy, anxious and queasy) and there were 9 days on which subjects vomited after zolpidem, but none after triazolam.
(15) In fact, though the chancellor might be happy in the short term because of the VAT he would harvest, I should be feeling decidedly queasy wondering how I was going to service the debt I had taken on to make the purchase.
(16) He said: “It’s not surprising to me that there are some Republicans who are now a little queasy about the prospect of the impact that repealing Obamacare would have on their own supporters, on people in their own congressional districts, because we know there are people all across the country who benefit from this law, who are protected by this law, whose lives have been saved by this law, and the prospect of taking it away is a question of life or death for some people.” Earnest suggested that Obama would encourage Democrats to focus on aspects of the Affordable Care Act that have bipartisan support.
(17) And when the Italian prime minister contemplates the fate of David Cameron, consigned to political history after his own ill-starred referendum, he must feel distinctly queasy.
(18) My hunch is that Brooks's socialism would make Miliband queasy.
(19) When people – once again not all, but enough – thought of him being president, they checked their gut and it made them queasy .
(20) But to the casual observer, once the giddiness and excitement had died down, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy.