sentimentality
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Fortunately Ms. Anderson avoids the pitfall of tipping into gooey sentimentality while allowing for the possibility of spiritual rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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 I don’t think such sentimentality can drive a sufficient amount of economic activity to employ most of us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Amrum” avoids the sentimentality baked into so many childhood-during-wartime stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The Greek mythologists are not rhetoricians and are notably free from sentimentality.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
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
NOW Ensemble presented “City Boy,” an effusive new piece by Mr. Greenstein, and ably abetted Mr. Dargel’s deadpan sentimentalities.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2011
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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The Diary of a Young Girl
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