sentimentality
Example Sentences
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Alexia has been volunteering at the Mayer for the last two years, and says that sentimentality played a big part in her signing up.
From Salon
Most weeks, this column labors to avoid sentimentality.
The film honors maturity and all its weighty deliberations without putting a sheen of sentimentality on the condition.
Burns says that was all part of figuring out “how to loosen the barnacles of sentimentality that have encrusted themselves” on the war.
From Los Angeles Times
“And a little bit of sentimentality. I didn’t go out of my way, but I would think, maybe I should buy a few of these.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
