sentimentalism

Example Sentences

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The show is vulgar, profane, provocative, taunting, violent and extreme, while at the same time being an exquisitely timed comedy with something like heart, a sentimentalism that isn’t completely ironic.

From Los Angeles Times

Republicans duly fashioned themselves as the Daddy Party, in contrast to the Democrats’ unrealistic and emotional sentimentalism.

From Salon

“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

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

Fear for the future of the country percolates up from the sea of sentimentalism in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

From New York Times