sentimentality
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We will continue to pay for those things, but I don’t think sentimentality drives enough economic activity to be the last hope of mankind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Rickles’ vocal turn as the sarcastic but devoted Mr. Potato Head along with John Ratzenberger’s wisecracking piggy bank Hamm gave the first three “Toy Story” movies a sharp edge that balanced their sentimentality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"I either continued along the sheep-farming route because of sentimentality or made bold decisions."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
And while there’s definitely some sentimentality involved, it’s mostly that I’m stubborn.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 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
You can’t be a modem woman and insist on the old sentimentalities.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing sentimentality
The Diary of a Young Girl
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