sentimentality
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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
This is a film that serves a purpose, and Jones’ amiable writing and Aramayo’s engaging performance dredge up just enough sentimentality while keeping the movie from seeming overly instructive.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Amrum” avoids the sentimentality baked into so many childhood-during-wartime stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
"I either continued along the sheep-farming route because of sentimentality or made bold decisions."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
She had Johnny’s sentimentality without his good looks.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
The band’s sound, switching up between rock beats and reductions of Afro-Brazilian funk, challenges Mr. Veloso, pushing him to escape old sentimentalities and perhaps invent new ones.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2014
There are two or three big sentimentalities here.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2013
In 1889, the enormous popularity in Britain of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused George Bernard Shaw to lampoon its Sunday-school sentimentalities and its Music-school ornamentalities’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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