Examples of 'sentimentalism' in a sentence

Meaning of "sentimentalism"

Sentimentalism is an excessive or indulgent sentimentality or emotionality, often depicted in literature and art
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  • A liking for sentimental things
  • An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality
  • A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.

How to use "sentimentalism" in a sentence

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I advise you to get rid of cheap sentimentalism.
Sentimentalism does not have its place.
I do not want to hear more patriotic sentimentalism.
Sentimentalism is a bourgeois attitude unworthy of the proletarian spirit.
It let a criminal escape for pure sentimentalism.
I do not want any sentimentalism in our double suicide.
This feeling became the hallmark of sentimentalism.
Nor does sentimentalism carry the day.
This is not the time for sentimentalism.
There was no sentimentalism in their courtship and marriage.
This question is to be regarded without sentimentalism.
Sentimentalism will not help us.
Let there be no phony sentimentalism about it.
Sentimentalism works well on villains.
These images are filled with beauty and sentimentalism.

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The time of sentimentalism is over.
Sakai has defined it as childish sentimentalism.
Call it sentimentalism.
Later works would be characterized by sentimentalism.
Charity is not the trivial sentimentalism to which some people would like to reduce it.
Defending the oppressed is mere sentimentalism.
Only a shallow sentimentalism exists where the truth is not the foundation of unity.
There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it.
This sentimentalism is unworthy of an old comrade!
We have no place for bourgeois sentimentalism.
Is there a lot of sentimentalism in this world today?
Charity without truth becomes sentimentalism.
Chamber realism, sentimentalism and cliches all around.
Dickens suffers from an excess of sentimentalism.
This is no romantic sentimentalism I am speaking of.
They throw down their lives for foolish sentimentalism.
But I think sensitivity and sentimentalism are not the same thing.
Neither his life nor deeds invite any form of sentimentalism.
The time of sentimentalism.
His benevolence never savored of weakness nor His sympathy of sentimentalism.
You fall into sentimentalism.
Is sentimentalism getting the better of you?
It has nothing to do with sentimentalism.
Philosophically, sentimentalism was often contrasted to rationalism.
But there is a lot of sentimentalism.
Sentimentalism in literature, its main features and representatives.
Nor is it a desire to indulge in sentimentalism.
As a literary mode, sentimentalism has been a recurring aspect of world literature.
Their minds will not turn to a religion of sentimentalism and excitement.
Prinz also defends sentimentalism in ethics, and ethical relativism.
It is the tyranny of sentimentalism.
It is not the facile sentimentalism of tear-jerkers, which manipulate our affect!
Zaleski was associated with Romanticism and sentimentalism.
In politics, he was an enemy of both sentimentalism and loose theories in government.
He 's the best at destroying any traces of sentimentalism.

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