sentimentality

You may call it sentimentality or any other nickname you like.

With her meals her sentimentality was upon the friendliest terms.

Madame liked flowers—as ornaments—and was sentimental herself, after a fashion, a sentimentality of appearances.

Mr. Mosby was sent on his way with all due convention and dispatch with a little of sentimentality thrown in for good measure.

Her sentimentality gradually waned as the prices offered steadily mounted.

She was self-absorbed and self-approving because she had attained that quality of sentimentality.

It is the half-unconscious way in which we hide our sentimentality when the latter collides with reality.

His philosophy had, therefore, no place for "sentimentality" in international relations.

Ten children, with the necessary adults, make a community in which an excess of sentimentality is impossible.

Then, abruptly his manner changed, for he felt himself perilously close to the maudlin in this new yielding to sentimentality.