sentimentalism

How To Use sentimentalism In A Sentence

• The cynical sentimentalism only serves to make it more sickening.
• The note is not only not a declaration of war or the prelude to a declaration of war, but a species midway of humanitarian sentimentalism and lawyerlike arguments which can have, at least for the present, but one consequence, that of encouraging Germany in intransigentism -- that is, the maintenance of her point of view regarding naval warfare. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
• I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism.
• Shortly, thereafter, sentimentalism became prominent in other genres.
• The feeling that I would have you obey for your soul's sake and without which you are but half alive, is not the blind passion of an oversexed sentimentalism. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• The Waltons and their family-friendly, values-based sentimentalism led the charge for an entire brigade of sentimental sap.
• The anarchic comedy of these performers effectively tempers Baxter's tendency towards deferential sentimentalism.
• It is meant to act as a check on the problematic impulses of romance and sentimentalism.
• His vision of the landscape was subjected to dreamy sentimentalism and romantic anecdote, rather than being acknowledged for its experimentalism and social content.
• Representing croppers who aspired to the middle class (whether accurate or not) was essential to the sentimentalism of the documentary form.