10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAWKISHLY»
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As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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2013 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market
“We do not want mawkishly sentimental or preachy fiction. Stories are most often
rejected for poor plotting and characterization; bad dialogue—listen to how
people talk; inadequate motivation. Many stories say nothing, are 'happenings'
rather ...
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The Stage and the Page: London's "whole Show" in the ...
There are the relics of the Cibberian genteel comedy, . . . there is the often
mawkishly pathetic theatre of Cumberland, intent upon raising a sigh and calling
forth a tear; and there is the more revolutionary humanitarian drama which is
seen at ...
George Winchester Stone, 1981
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The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
Illustrated with forty-eight color plates and scores of black-and-white pictures, an entertaining study examines the enduring appeal of dinosaurs to the human imagination, the many different images of dinosaurs in popular culture, and their ...
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The Hero in American Drama, 1787-1900: A Critical Appraisal ...
Chapter in THE MAWKISHLY EMOTIONAL HERO THE DRAMAS of the thirty
years following 1840 are not arbitrarily marked off, as they may seem to be. A
study of the American plays written during these years reveals a definite and
rapid ...
Blanche Elizabeth Davis, 1950
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each one a cultural harbinger: • Mort Sahl, of a new political cynicism • Lenny Bruce, of the sexual, drug, and language revolution • Dick Gregory, ...
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The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America's Global Role
Madison's Americans are not the noble souls mawkishly portrayed saving
Vietnamese by Lyndon Johnson, Iraqis by George W. Bush, and Afghan women
by Barack Obama. They are inherently rascals, looking out for themselves, and
can only ...
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The Baviad, and Maeviad
... itself, unless it be gross and glaring, cannot hope for " their most sweet " voices.
" And the higher ranks are so mawkishly mild, that they take with a placid simper
whatever comes before them : or, if they now and then experience a slight fit ...
William Gifford, Anthony Pasquin, Robert Faulder, 1810
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
His political prin. ciples he is afraid either to praise or blame, and speaks of them
mawkishly thus :—“ It is vulgarly imagined that his republicanism tended to
inculcate av system of general equality. Nothing can be more erroneous. He has
left ...
... into uniform.The next day after hehas made his speech you find it posted up on
posters all overthecity. Moscow has recently “purified” the French Communist
party. According to the Russian Communists the French party was mawkishly.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAWKISHLY»
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X-Men: Days of Future Past Rogue Cut Review
One shot lingers (a little mawkishly) on the still-standing World Trade Center. For most of the film, that's the level of change you can expect: a ... «Den of Geek!, Jul 15»
Big Dance Theater brings comic 'Smithee' to Jacob's Pillow
Which doesn't mean, thankfully, that this is some kind of somber cautionary tale, or meant to tug mawkishly at our heartstrings. But all play and ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Marujita Diaz: Singer and actress whose sentimental patriotism saw …
Their speciality was belting out mawkishly sentimental folk songs and equally strident, simplistic, patriotic ballads. While a few of their musical ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Let these NBA Draft prospects completely ruin a bunch of Drake …
The cuteness of Riley Curry singing Drake's hook from “Blessed” will now be supplanted by Sam Dekker mawkishly doing the same. Now when ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-June
It's a neat military SF idea, but unfortunately overloaded with backstory, too much of which focuses mawkishly on the romantic relationship ... «Locus Online, Jun 15»
Ranking Every No. 1 Hit From 1995
One can wrap their head around the popularity of “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” because it's so mawkishly sentimental that it tracks as a ... «UPROXX, Jun 15»
Dan Jones: Giants like Rafa Nadal and Tiger Woods must get used …
And of course, that's sport. Old heroes die hard, but they do all die in the end. It is mawkishly compelling, but not in the least bit pretty. «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
'Hamari Adhuri Kahani' Review: Mawkishly Emotional Love Story
"HAK" is mawkishly emotional and never fills you up. What's worse is the haphazard events don't allow one to build a connection with the ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jun 15»
Votes for emigrants?
In my extensive travels I have met Irish people from Israel to Iceland whose views swung between the mawkishly sentimental to the angrily ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
San Andreas Brad Peyton
It wears its heart mawkishly on its sleeve — what it needs is a tongue planted firmly in its cheek. Ray (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a skilled ... «Exclaim!, May 15»
