Sentimentality \Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. sentimentalit['e].] The quality or state of being sentimental.
"We agreed that when we watched the speech, we would drink a toast to Gorbachev's health." The disapproval of the Russian government goes deeper than nostalgia and sentimentality.
Most of his works are vitiated by a fatal sentimentality, a refusal either to discard or to confront the subjects that have called them into being in the first place.
Sir, In the great energy debate the FT will wish to make the case that sound economics must not be swamped by latter-day sentimentality about British coal mining.
I don't think there's any sentimentality in it.
The show is very American. The principal influences come from California and New York City; so does the tinge of sentimentality.
Only with a needless sub-plot involving tomboy Thora Birch and her wayward father does the film go over the top. A very different form of sentimentality is at work in Autobus, a witty and anarchic look at youthful alienation, French style.
The occasional difficulties - a scrap between Bates and her eldest son, an attempted rape - are all quickly swept away by copious waves of sentimentality.
His confession leads to counterconfessions, many jokes and some sentimentality.
Cicekoglu, who also wrote the screenplay, and Basaran have avoided cheap sentimentality and ideological messages.
Once he starts blowing, even the threat of renewed sentimentality is turned to matchwood.
Even the more acerbic Mr. Nott was described on his appointment to the Ministry of Defense by a Tory colleague as "a nineteenth century liberal with a touch of rural sentimentality."
Helena Jones, 86, who has lived next door to the Ford house for 20 years, said sentimentality aside, she hopes the house gets sold.
It excludes the element of fear and tragedy, essential to any myth and to any mature vision of life, in favour of sentimentality and cheap glamour. The mythical content gives such fiction a certain power.
"Courageous changes, without sentimentality or illusions, are imperative, and any delay would be fatal," Krunic said in his speech.
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee'. The people of Ireland know a winner when they see one, having watched this annual display of sentimentality for more than three decades.
His reading, underpinned by a cleanly purposeful rhythmic tread, lightly floated in its melodic lines, entirely free of both churchy sentimentality and musicological piety, was a marvellous example of this conductor's interpretative art.
Many people will admire Barry James as the jewish book-keeper who ends a happy man, though for my part sentimentality is never far away from the whole show.
Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times bureau chief in London, still visits Glyndebourne every year and remits to his readers paeans to the British Way of Life of a sentimentality unrivaled since Rupert Brooke's World War I poem "Grantchester."