Sentence example with the word 'sentimentality'

sentimentality

affection, bleeding heart, ecstasy, gushiness, maudlinness, namby-pambyism, oversentimentality, sentimentalism, slushiness, susceptibility, tearjerker

Definition n. falsely emotional in a maudlin way

Last update: September 5, 2015


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" Tenderness " she had abundantly, and it revealed itself not only in effusive sentimentality, as with Rousseau and Chateaubriand, but in active benevolence; " justice " too she had in so far as she sincerely wished that all men should share alike her happiness; but of " holiness," that sense of awe and reverence that was felt in divers kinds and degrees by Isaiah, Sophocles, Virgil and St Paul, she had not a rudimenatry conception.   [Please select]

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"Is it just sentimentality, old wives' tales, or is she right."   [Please select]

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Something--the beauty of the night, perhaps, or some faint aftermath of sentimentality born of Sonia's emotion--tempted him during those few moments to relax.   [Please select]

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And suddenly the thought came that Zora would have worn the chaplets heedlessly; there would have been no sentimentality over withered flowers on her part.   [Please select]

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His philosophy had, therefore, no place for "sentimentality" in international relations.   [Please select]

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We retorted by the word "sentimentality," which, along with "declamation" and "vague generalities," served us as common terms of opprobrium.   [Please select]

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Long ago I touched lightly on the anomaly of Althea's character--her mid-Victorian sentimentality and softness, combined with her modern spirit of independence.   [Please select]

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