But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.
In that regard it's a good idea to stick to easy quaffing reds, rosés and whites that are not big on drama, excessively flabby or condescendingly mawkish.
It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.
Let's not get mawkish here, suffice to say that life has been kind to me in an absent-minded ' who's he?
Pretty much all of the program was embarrassing now, and not just the occasionally mawkish serious bits.
She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.
The flowers are large, white or pale rose, and followed in August by fruits of a brilliant red as large as a hens egg, and edible, though of mawkish flavor.
The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.
What was once sweet has become mawkish, and the once exquisite simile appears little more than an ingenious conceit.