sentimentalism

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A reviewer in Britain's Guardian newspaper sniffed that "an undeniable strain of sentimentalism runs throughout" the book and its prose.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

“But he, Robert Weaver and Alan Cober were the first wave of breaking through this realism and sentimentalism with an expressionistic intensity and impressionistic fluidity.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Rather than fuzzy-wuzzy sentimentalism, that liminal space between objective reality and the netherworld is presented as a natural, if exceedingly rare, fact of life.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023

In other words, it's the "dismantling of sentimentalism," which Knott said is "good news."

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2022

Such sentimentalism may seem ridiculous considering what I had witnessed in the last days, but those were the deeds of others, of predatory animals.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel