sentimentality

Example Sentences

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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

And while there’s definitely some sentimentality involved, it’s mostly that I’m stubborn.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

When he spoke from conviction — most famously about Vietnam — it was grounded in fact-based reporting, not sentimentality.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026

Connection, viewed without sentimentality, is Squibb’s calling card.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

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