sentimentality

Example Sentences

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“We have come to Drew Timme for sentimentality and melancholy, hoping to strum his heartstrings as he prepares for his last March ride,” Dana O’Neil writes in The Athletic.

From New York Times

This balancing act between sentimentality and cynicism often feels wobbly.

From New York Times

The pianist Howard Watkins, dignified and unshowy, resisted moroseness as well as sentimentality, locating the power of the piece in its observational lens.

From New York Times

Here, it is Nighy who gently guides a similar story of inertia, without sentimentality, ultimately delivering a message about what lasts, and what one loses when one waits too long to wake up.

From Washington Post

But she was always a heartfelt champion of the theater, and every so often she melted into something like sentimentality.

From New York Times