over-sentimental

Example Sentences

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And yet ... this race reminds me a bit of the year Anthony Hopkins won a second Oscar for his magnificent work in “The Father,” prevailing over sentimental favorite Chadwick Boseman.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

She’s also learned: “Parents cry a lot over sentimental or nostalgic things. Kids don’t have the capacity for nostalgia yet.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2017

Don't be over sentimental in this important phase of hygiene.

From Family Limitation by Sanger, Margaret

Life was quite gloomy enough as it was, without going out of one's way to cry one's eyes out over sentimental plays.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Is she over sentimental or ineffective—and is the pathos of her grief kept within the limits of the reader's pleasure?

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund