sentimentality
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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
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
I have to keep my sentimentality in check or I won’t be able to go on—I’d be crushed by the weight of memory.
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
Adaptations of Victor Hugo’s paean to human suffering are inevitably bushwhacked by the novel’s mounting sentimentalities and coincidences.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
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
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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