sentimentality

It made up for missed teenage rites of passage — the senior prom, the homecoming dance, the debutante ball — by doubling down on sentimentality.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Shorn of sentimentality, this gentle drama follows a quietly observant fifth-grader who feels the grim shadow of mortality all around her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Mr. Enrigue follows both groups on their hazardous journeys into the Sierra Madre, and the writing, translated by Natasha Wimmer, yields all the pleasures of a first-rate adventure with none of the sentimentality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

"I either continued along the sheep-farming route because of sentimentality or made bold decisions."

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Forward-facing as ever, Ferry does admit that organizing the book itself, and sitting with the wide range of lyrics he’d penned over the years, did provide him with small regrets and sentimentalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Leaders of these behemoths have long spoken in ambitious, gauzy sentimentalities about a broadly progressive future.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2016

Our own sentimentalities will be twice removed before long.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2016

There are two or three big sentimentalities here.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2013

In 1889, the enormous popularity in Britain of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused George Bernard Shaw to lampoon its Sunday-school sentimentalities and its Music-school ornamentalities’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall