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
Shorn of sentimentality, this gentle drama follows a quietly observant fifth-grader who feels the grim shadow of mortality all around her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
"I either continued along the sheep-farming route because of sentimentality or made bold decisions."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
And while there’s definitely some sentimentality involved, it’s mostly that I’m stubborn.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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
Like the soldiers at the front, the children suffer through boredom and disappointment, and they’re alternately embarrassed and amused by their parents’ sudden fears and sentimentalities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2015
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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