noun
definition
An act or state of being sentimental.
Examples of sentimentality in a Sentence
It was a very sentimental film, much along the lines of Whiskey Galore, with justified, and not misplaced, sentimentality.
It should avoid sentimentality, the awkward, gauche handling of emotion.
But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.
I know, a song about a young child that doesn't stick in the throat or drown in sickly sentimentality.
Much of the misconceptions surrounding this issued were due to misinformation and false sentimentality, she added.
While the film does keep adults and kids relatively entertained, it also drifts into both lame slapstick and sappy sentimentality.
Sentimentality about death has become a new ideology for justifying social inequality and exploitation.
The movie boasts some terrific special effects and a departure from the usual sentimentality associated with some of Spielberg 's recent cinematic adventures.
You will be aware of other people 's needs, but do n't let sentimentality pull you into being too generous.
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Book 's title is form of sentimentality in california has you know is.
Most men want to strike an appropriate balance between fun and sentimentality when it comes to emotional acts.
She values sentimentality and simplicity over grandeur.
The best matches for Pisces are comfortable with sentimentality and showers of love.
We had the horribly contrived sentimentality particularly in his references to children.
You will be aware of other people's needs, but don't let sentimentality pull you into being too generous.
The consequences of such sentimentality are beginning to make themselves known, notably in the problem of migration.
Aries doesn't have time for sentimentality, nostalgia, or the act of staring out windows and fostering a poetic sigh.
Despite the inherent sentimentality, they effectively display the realism of raising children in the late 1980s.
Although Eric lacks sentimentality, his concern for Sookie remains genuine and he avoids lying to her.
With the Slavophils he agreed in advocating the extension of Russian influence in south-eastern Europe, but he carefully kept aloof from them and condemned their archaeological and ecclesiastical sentimentality.
Playfully asserts female form of sentimentality noteworthy pieces in off your bro.
Emotional and uplifting, without ever indulging in trite sentimentality, Tim Pare writes bittersweet, confessional love songs.
That we are so ready to empathize with these comic caricatures is as much reflects of Roberts ' craft as the audience's sentimentality.
It can be played successfully for knockabout farce, sweet sentimentality or dark irony.
The film just lets us sit back and smile, never foisting any messages on us and avoiding the usual annoying sentimentality.
Boult conducts this with his customary care, presenting the long lines with a direct approach that avoids any hint of cloying sentimentality.
Though the tale looks somewhat dark and might seem like a scary movie, it is less horror and gore and more creepy with a hint of sentimentality.
While they are not actually the original ring, the style and design will be nearly indistinguishable and can preserve the sentimentality of the jewelry.
Choosing a unique alternative ring may at first be exciting and memorable, but couples should carefully consider the implications of nostalgia and sentimentality before they disregard the popularity of classic wedding rings.
Some women prefer colored stones, and using different gems allows the couple to customize a ring with personal symbolism and sentimentality, such as using birthstones or other favorite gems.
The indefensible indecency and overstrained sentimentality are on the surface; but after a time every repellent defect is forgotten in the enjoyment of the exquisite literary art.
She has all the abandon of an Italian improvisatore, the simplicity of a Bernardin de St Pierre without his mawkishness, the sentimentality of a Rousseau without his egotism, the rhythmic eloquence of a Chateaubriand without his grandiloquence.
Moroseness and dogmatism are as far from the Pantagruelism of Rabelais as maudlin sentimentality or dilettantism.
The sentimentality of her sentiment and the florid magniloquence of her style equally disgust the reader.
Zyrowski, Lamartine (1896); and perhaps best of all in the Preface to Emile Legouis' Clarendon Press edition of Jocelyn (1906), where a vigorous effort is made to combat the idea of Lamartine's sentimentality and femininity as a poet.