sentimental

sentimentality | American Dictionary

sentimentality
noun[ U ]
us/ˌsen·təˌmenˈtæl·ɪ·t̬i, -mən-/
expression of gentle emotions such as love, sympathy, or caring:
She had never liked that song’s sentimentality.

Examples of sentimentality

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But, as an essentially modernist philosophy, postmodern aesthetic still refrains from sentimentality.
This develops as negotiations between historical sentimentality and radical memorialization, and between pantomimic burlesque and morally driven satire.
These images turn adults into kids with a sentimentality that erases the years and transports each back to childhood outings at the park.
This humanistic sentimentality is one of the hallmarks of the poetess tradition, or at least of its nineteenthcentury theoretical basis.
Philosophical disapproval of sentimentality in this century follows centuries of popular approval.
There can be no appeal to sentimentality on this matter.
This present quality makes memory material relevant now and does not justify a marginalisation of its sentimentality.
The choice we can exercise over our beliefs and emotions should employ truth-orienting reflection; sentimentality eschews them.
The sense of scholars working in cautious and acknowledging dialogue with key commentators on masculinity and sentimentality is very strong indeed.
In daydreams and fantasies we seek comfort inside our own minds; in sentimentality, however, we seek it in the real world.
To the extent that emotion is a product of belief, we are responsible for our sentimentality.
We no longer think of sentimentality in terms of a robust capacity to feel; we tend to think of it in terms of emotional falseness.
The book is written in a fine and straightforward style, with touches of humour and no sentimentality.
Too often polemics against the times are polemics from an uninformed sentimentality or an uncritical nostalgia.
Traditional details and materials are used without sentimentality.
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