sentimentality

Her brother might feel the same way, but his sadness and sentimentality may be manifesting in a different way.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

And sentimentality has never closed an achievement gap, reduced an infant mortality rate, or lifted anyone out of poverty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

His hand rests on his heart as he evangelizes her writing — a surprisingly tender moment of sentimentality from a comedian who has made a career out of stinging misanthropy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

Saccharine sentimentality isn’t going to stop me from feeling helpless and terrified.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

NOW Ensemble presented “City Boy,” an effusive new piece by Mr. Greenstein, and ably abetted Mr. Dargel’s deadpan sentimentalities.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 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