It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
Carl Jung said that sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Lovecraft Paragraphs : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
The great Irish writer James Joyce said that sentimentality is unearned emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Lovecraft Paragraphs : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
But scientists live to reduce the seemingly irreducible, and sentimentality is off-limits in the lab. From Wordnik.com. [Getting the Questions Right] Reference
At the center of this code, or deeply embedded within the logic of sentimentality, is the work it does in building and maintaining the boundaries defining of gender. From Wordnik.com. [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference
So that kind of sentimentality, which is perhaps understandable, didn't seem to be reflected in the people that were polled. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
The finale is pretty sickly stuff but then Barbery's entire tale is soaked in sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Summary and book reviews of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.] Reference
And just as you'd imagine with a family-targeted movie about a horse, Randall Wallace's Secretariat is awash in sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Secretariat] Reference
There is in this group a sentimentality, which is nauseating and a kind of eye-for-eye morality, which Moses himself would applaud. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and Violence on the Bookstalls] Reference
What is "sentimentality" and what is "justice" in dealing with the prodigal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
I hardly suspected him of that kind of sentimentality, or honor, or whatever it was that motivated him. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
Perhaps he was getting old, slipping into the kind of sentimentality he had seen in his father and had despised. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Shakespeare is commenting on the sentimentality which is generally pleasing to Quince, Snug, Bottom, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Those who disapprove of it are commonly accused of 'sentimentality', and very often their arguments justify the accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
The thought twisted his stomach ... but he was damned if he was going to show that kind of sentimentality in front of Reese. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
But this does sometimes come off for me, at least as an easy kind of sentimentality as opposed to an honest declaration of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE] Reference
One touch of "sentimentality," and I should be lost. From Wordnik.com. [A Relic] Reference
I'll always have a weird kind of sentimentality about his work. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
He may have no use for that kind of sentimentality, but so what?. From Wordnik.com. [Phillies Zone] Reference
But that kind of sentimentality didn't impress his boss, Jerry Roberts. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Carol itself adapted of late by Robert Zemeckis, but its "sentimentality" is edged with urgency. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Their form, however, is not hard, but softened by the sentimentality which is suffused over them like a veil of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
She found herself rapidly developing that latent "sentimentality" which her grandmother had so often rebuked and warned her against. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
We retorted by the word "sentimentality" which, along with "declamation" and "vague generalities," served us as common terms of opprobrium. From Wordnik.com. [The autobiography of John Stuart Mill] Reference
"It is precisely his sentimentality which is at the bottom of the whole trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories] Reference
But we should not let good will slip into sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Limits Of Immigration] Reference
There is not much room today for sentimentality in the NFL or in any pro sport. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Next Quarterback Controversy] Reference
Urgently, without sentimentality, "La Promesse" shows us the birth of a conscience, and its cost. From Wordnik.com. [An Awakening] Reference
Much misty-eyed sentimentality gets spent on the subject of dads passing their love of sports on to sons. From Wordnik.com. [My Farewell To Fandom] Reference
But the book it was based on, long suppressed in Poland, is notable for its lucidity and lack of sentimentality. 6. From Wordnik.com. [Books Of War] Reference
A natural storyteller and wit, McCourt sidesteps sentimentality with a litany of hardship that would make a cynic flinch. From Wordnik.com. [From 'Ashes' To Stardom] Reference
"In choosing heroic sentimentality over complex, unpopular political issues, he shows what happened, but not why," another wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Magazine] Reference
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