sentimental

A good commercial Christmas song must avoid being too sentimental or too cutesy.

Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.

While Kalman tends to mine the past for material, she is as irreverent as she is sentimental.

The simultaneously upbeat and sentimental ode to friendship is equal parts funk, trance, pop, and R&B.

In another series, drafting a fantasy football team by the side of a fallen comrade could be sentimental, even borderline maudlin.

Frulein Fichtner is more in the bravura than in the sentimental line, and she has a certain breadth, grasp, and freshness.

There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.

She resented his sudden drop from his pedestal, for he looked sentimental and somewhat sheepish.

I see no infinite goodness here, but only the infinite foolishness of sentimental superstition.

These worthy men really made too much of his sentimental journey.