sentimentalism

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Dr Stevenson, the medical officer of health for Paddington, asserted women had "the same physical necessities" as men and the call for female toilets was "no imaginary want created by sentimentalism".

From BBC

Certainly not the critics — I was one of them — who greeted the almost 150 minutes of extravagant action, baroque plotting and high-octane sentimentalism of “F9” with gentle sighs of gratitude.

From New York Times

But if the film avoids the typical sentimentalism of dramas about terminal illness, it indulges heavily in dourness.

From New York Times

Much sentimentalism has attached itself to Ashley’s sack and the poetry of Ruth’s embroidered inscription, but the sack was originally an emergency kit, born out of despairing necessity.

From New York Times

“That is how these people are, their overflowing sentimentalism. Their motion picture style of exaggerated feeling.”

From Los Angeles Times