sentimentality
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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
We will continue to pay for those things, but I don’t think sentimentality drives enough economic activity to be the last hope of mankind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
But I don’t think such sentimentality can drive a sufficient amount of economic activity to employ most of us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Amrum” avoids the sentimentality baked into so many childhood-during-wartime stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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
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
This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2011
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
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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