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

The plainness is deliberate; Fields conveys quiet comfort and adoring acceptance without ever slipping into sentimentality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

The Lakers allowed sentimentality toward Kobe Bryant to distort their vision, signing Bryant to a two-year, $48.5-million extension.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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