mawkish

Oh, it was just in case things turned mawkish.
Au cas où ça devienne trop mièvre.
Oh, it was just in case things turned mawkish.
Au cas où la conversation deviendrait mièvre.
Europe does not need any more mawkish, moralising Christers who speak of peace and cooperation.
L'Europe n'a plus besoin de " soldats du Christ " mièvres et moralisateurs qui parlent de paix et de coopération.
But the love scenes, and scenes showing complicity, inevitably more fluid and less uneven, could have seemed too mawkish for the director.
Mais les scènes d’amour et de complicité, forcément plus fluides et moins accidentées, ont pu sembler trop mièvres aux yeux de la réalisatrice.
The idea that one person can be all things to another person, satisfy every need, or even more than one, is sentimental and mawkish.
L'idée qu'une unique personne puisse être tout pour une autre personne, satisfaire chaque besoin ou même plus d'un seul, c'est sentimental et romanesque.
I can't stand the mawkish sensibility of her novels.
Je ne supporte pas la sensiblerie mièvre de ses romans.
It's too late to get mawkish.
C'est trop tard pour chialer.
He wasn't a mawkish old woman.
Pas une bonne femme sentimentale.
It is a mawkish soap opera - it has explained - that it goes ahead by now from many months, indeed from many years.
Il est un feuilleton télévisé écoeurant - il a expliqué - qu'il passe maintenant de beaucoup de mois, au contraire de beaucoup d'ans.
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