mawkish, overfamiliar, lachrymose, overwrought, swiftian, melodramatic, unaffecting, maudlin, mirthless, pantomimic, sententious, lugubrious, sophoclean, treacly, grand guignol, pythonesque, wordsworthian, rebarbative, hackneyed, unpoetic, overdetermined, onanistic, plangent, stagey, turgid, dolorous, teacherly, leaden, deathless, parodic, lunkheaded, dostoevskian, histrionic, shavian, jocose, portentous, max beerbohm, banal, chucklesome, tearjerking, piteous, unamusing, florid, neurasthenic, sneery, scabrous, cloying, trite, overlong, puerile, prolix, nabokovian, grandiloquent, baleful, saccharine, querulous, mozartian, gimcrack, droll, risible, falstaffian, platitudinous, pompous, uninflected, unheroic, authorial, stagy, jejune, tragicomic, schmaltzy, reproachful, hagiographic, larky, bromidic, bilious, middlebrow, orotund, lumpish, unwonted, hammy, apparitional, toneless, declamatory, desolating, digressive, dramaturgical, tragi, mordant, somnambulistic, seriocomic, witless, fatuous, jamesian, grisliness, acidulous, melismatic, doleful, dunderheaded, beethovenian, praiseful, postmodern, artless, farcical, tragic, anticlimactic, burlesque, grotesque, macabre, slapstick, comic, humorous, humourous, satirical, tragical, bawdy, deadpan, epigrammatic, folksy

emotional, mushy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy