sentimentality

It was a coming-out story of sorts told with self-effacing un-sentimentality.

He once told me that he hated AIDS films because of the sentimentality.

Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.

“I have a horror of hysterics or sentimentality,” he explained.

But 30 years later the Civil Rights Movement smothered any remaining sentimentality under the banner of equality.

I should not allow inane sentimentality to influence me: it is beneath the revolutionist.

I startled a passing cabman into interest by laughing aloud at that magnificent and characteristic sentimentality.

He alone in French art inclines a little, in his tearful sentimentality, to the Romantic school of Dsseldorf.

And this, indeed, contrasted strangely with his former abandon, and with the customary gush of German sentimentality.

We can see how the indiscriminate preaching of such a formula would open the flood-gates of sentimentality and fraud.