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
Fortunately Ms. Anderson avoids the pitfall of tipping into gooey sentimentality while allowing for the possibility of spiritual rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But Sony’s CEO, Hiroki Totoki, is not given to sentimentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
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
The band’s sound, switching up between rock beats and reductions of Afro-Brazilian funk, challenges Mr. Veloso, pushing him to escape old sentimentalities and perhaps invent new ones.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2014
There are two or three big sentimentalities here.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2013
You can’t be a modem woman and insist on the old sentimentalities.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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