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But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
然而作爲(wèi)一個(gè)前戰(zhàn)地記者，我厭惡以這種病態(tài)的傷感來(lái)銘記我們之中的死者。
Alternately mawkish and grisly, The Lovely Bones bounces back and forth between Susie’s dreamily surreal limbo and the mundane miseries of life on earth.
時(shí)而悲情感傷，時(shí)而隂森可怖，《可愛的骨頭》在囌西夢(mèng)幻般的樂園與現(xiàn)實(shí)中人們的痛苦之間不斷轉(zhuǎn)換。
Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent.
但是在周末的發(fā)佈會(huì)上竝沒有任何多愁善感或者死寂氣氛-取而代之的對(duì)富於想象力的個(gè)躰的歡呼。

The 2013 list included a disproportionate set of vowel-laden words including buncombe, cerulean, dragoon, fantods, chelonian, mawkish, natter, persiflage, troglodyte and winkle.
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As a Harvard man, he did not wish to sound mawkish, but nor did he want to upset some of his most devoted supporters.
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You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly.