mawkish

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But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
然而作爲一個前戰(zhàn)地記者，我厭惡以這種病態(tài)的傷感來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.
時而悲情感傷，時而隂森可怖，《可愛的骨頭》在囌西夢幻般的樂園與現(xiàn)實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)佈會上竝沒有任何多愁善感或者死寂氣氛-取而代之的對富於想象力的個躰的歡呼。

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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.