sentimentality

IPA: sɛntʌmɛntˈæɫɪti

Examples of "sentimentality" in Sentences

Carl Jung said that sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
The great Irish writer James Joyce said that sentimentality is unearned emotion.
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
I like it when old farts like Kristof remind people that wallowing in sentimentality with Little Lord Fauntleroy is just as fun today as it was back when it was written.
There were ballads to make the heart beat fast, and one little tragedy, _The Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, which, though not over-disposed to what he called sentimentality, I could not read without tears.
This my swashbuckler misnames sentimentality -- and thus I feel that he always tends to admire the wrong qualities, because he condones even what he calls sentimentality in one whom he chooses to admire.
In the postwar years, that combination of pathos, a certain sentimentality and a spirit of resilience endeared him to the British public and probably went a long way to explaining his popularity in Albania.