sentimentality

How To Use sentimentality In A Sentence

• Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
• Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation.
• I think that I avoided self-pity and sentimentality about it because I didn't feel that way about it.
• The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes. From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
• Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
• Being incapable of theory, being indeed incapable of thought, he can only deal in two things: what he calls practicality and what I call sentimentality. The wheels of justice grind slow…
• The writers juggled a nice mix of comedy, drama and romance pretty well, only occasionally stumbling into gooey sentimentality.
• How does she avoid sentimentality? Times, Sunday Times
• The short Serenades are also quite pretty and Hanson makes the most out of their sugary sentimentality.
• It is an old-fashioned, admirably reticent film that succeeds not through daring but by avoiding the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama.