sentimentality
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But Sony’s CEO, Hiroki Totoki, is not given to sentimentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
But his sentimentality ends when it comes to the economics of programming in that time slot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
"I either continued along the sheep-farming route because of sentimentality or made bold decisions."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
You forget that she thrives on sentimentality almost as much as Les does.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
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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