sentimentalism

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In fact, by 1978, the region had established public images of itself that may never be surpassed?portraits teeming with grotesqueries, distortions, exaggerations, sentimentalisms, myths and quasi folklore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus do two opposite sentimentalisms divide opinion between them!

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

It is the first part of the doing away with rococo sentimentalisms, mediæval tatters, and all wretched and ragged remainders and reminders of states of society which have nothing in common with our present needs.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The oldest—fifty years old—were love-letters, of the time when people wrote love-letters beginning "Honoured Miss," and "Dear and respected Sir," overlaying the plain heart-truth with no sentimentalisms of the pen.

From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Crane, Walter

Yet these were the people so hated and ridiculed by the press and the pulpit, whose grand utterances and spicy debates were stigmatized as "the maudlin sentimentalisms of unsexed men and women."

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady