Rousseau's Confessions was the favourite book of both (as it was of Emerson), but George Eliot was never converted by the high priest of sentimentalism into a belief in human perfectibility and a return to nature.   anvd [Please select]

Rough, rude men as most of the Rangers are, little prone to delicate sentimentalism, they are, nevertheless, true to the ordinary instincts of humanity.   anvd [Please select]

It was impossible for Carlisle not to contrast her aunt's flabby sentimentalism with her own and her mother's sane, brilliant ambitiousness.   anvd [Please select]

Clavering, whose ancestors had fought in every war in American history, had enlisted in 1917 with neither sentimentalism, enthusiasm, nor resentment.   anvd [Please select]

I think that much of our literary impressionism and sentimentalism reveal the guessing habit.   anvd [Please select]

In whichever capacity the chopper plies his axe, he is pretty sure to bring no sentimentalism to his task.   anvd [Please select]

Would her friend Vivian have committed himself to the articles for only a foolish sentimentalism which the poor themselves repudiated.   anvd [Please select]