All of which you characterize as sentimentalism -- so says. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
The gentleman from Ohio refers in strong terms to what he calls the sentimentalism of the North. From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
What they call sentimentalism is greater sensibility, greater sympathy, a keener sense of justice. From Wordnik.com. [The New Theology] Reference
Tagore was a major world poet and artist, whose sentimentalism is sometimes misunderstood, no doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
One thing for sure, there was no sentimentalism from the five-time NHL leading scorer as he took off his Pittsburgh jersey for the last time. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Penguins face offseason makeover] Reference
On the other hand, what replaced it was far worse, and I tend to reject claims that the old sentimentalism is aesthetically equal to Glory & Praise. From Wordnik.com. [What is going on at Mount St. Mary's?] Reference
There was need of such a sentiment to be somehow kindled, to counteract the ascendancy of a certain sentimentalism that prevails too much in our days. From Wordnik.com. [A Sermon on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th, 1865.] Reference
That which pedants of that time and this time would have called the sentimentalism of Dickens was really simply the detached sanity of Dickens. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
"sentimentalism" -- Agatha's little infatuation being included therein; but the frequency of such infatuations existing in the world around us argues some truth at their origin. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference
Rather than "sentimentalism," Ann says that the better value here should be "ecological balance" and "protecting the environment.". From Wordnik.com. [A man shoots a feral cat that was stalking endangered shore birds.] Reference
I heard one day the good dean remonstrating with her on the "sentimentalism" of her mode of treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
In vain Boland scoffed at Grogan's sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Absurdity is a deadly shower-bath to sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Another contributing factor was union sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [How Government Unions Became So Powerful] Reference
Enthusiasm does not necessarily connote hysteria or sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Let who will call this sentimentalism, it is none the less hard fact. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
Thus was born the politics of sentimentalism and the cult of compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Moisture] Reference
"Rank sentimentalism, Nan," he said coolly, as he dropped his hands from the keys. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Anything differing from this is worthless sentimentalism, undeserving of sober regard. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
So, after all, his act had been one, not of sentimentalism, but of just plain gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
It is disgraced by none of the flippant and irreverent sentimentalism which characterizes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It is a false sentimentalism which lives in the past, and lavishes its tenderness on memory. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Wilhelmine Arend is one of those whom sentimentalism seized like a maddening pestiferous disease. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
I mean, a father dying of cancer - that sounds like its rife with opportunities for sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Ruben Blades: In 'Spoken Word,' A Certain Wisdom] Reference
America are sometimes inclined, and not unnaturally, to disapprove of this pleasing sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
We do not preach that all is disappointment -- the dreary creed of sentimentalism; but we preach that. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Ordinarily, few people on earth -- least of all the French -- would tolerate such sloppy sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Picnics With Puccini] Reference
Cheapside, and, apart from a lingering sentimentalism, there is no reason why the fact should not be owned. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Gellert had spread his own sort of religious and ethical sentimentalism among the multitudes of his devotees. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
It was a challenge to play this role without submerging yourself into sentimentalism, so it was very interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Ruben Blades: In 'Spoken Word,' A Certain Wisdom] Reference
Why that reality should be obscured by mere sentimentalism, with all its train of absurdities is incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
He felt a profound revulsion from his own nature, which was flawed with this sentimentalism, this jejune expectancy. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Admit all its high-flown sentimentalism to be half-unconscious affectation, such as we pardon in writers of the Great. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
That's when the sentimentalism gushes out, at the end of long journeys, at the novelty of elegance and sophistication. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
It results in the hysteria or sentimentalism which adds to the real evils and difficulties of life fancied grievances and disasters. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The one is to treat our differences with childish sentimentalism, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is or ought not to be any peace. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
This rhetoric of pathos reflects the de-intellectualization of public life — the substitution of sentimentalism for reasoned persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Sleepwalking Toward DD-Day] Reference
Teutonic way to adopt his whimsicality, shorn now of sentimentalism, and to build success for their wares on remembrance of a defaced idol. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
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