How to Use sentimentalism in a Sentence

sentimentalism

noun

• But strip away the easy sentimentalism of the moment and you’re left with little else.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• There can be something pitiless about Mr. Shults’s gaze, but the steadiness of his look is that of the artist who refuses to sell the truth out for sentimentalism.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
• The melodies relate to Celtic music, and the people who live there share a love for sentimentalism and suffering in silence.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• But the inclusion of the sweet little blond girl struck me as a step in the direction of interspecies sentimentalism.
  — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
• Well, not too much treacle; anything that starts with James Earl Jones' narration is bound to have its own blend of gravitas and sentimentalism.
  — A.d. Amorosi, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• Stopping just short of sentimentalism, Rosner suggests that one way to reach a happier, more settled future is to confront the past.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• The sentimentalism was mitigated by regular doses of bawdy humor, the targets of which were no doubt the envy of quite a number of spectators of both sexes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• That, too, informs the series’ pulsating sense of sentimentalism, says Brodesser-Akner.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 5 Mar. 2023
• With the rise of the middle class in the 17th and 18th centuries, sentimentalism became a movement that emphasized compassion as a desirable character trait, causing an increase in the expressions of sentiment.
  — cleveland, 10 Feb. 2020
• The whole effectively functions as a scrapbook, but without the nostalgia or sentimentalism.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
• The trouble is that, mixed up in all this, there is a heartfelt sentimentalism (understandable, given the circumstances) and political opportunism.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Apr. 2020
• This is no sentimentalism: Americans have long defined themselves as a family.
  — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2021
• Any other view of human nature is an exercise in magical thinking or sentimentalism.
  — James Ryerson, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
• Now, the difficulty is compassion can often lead a biographer or a historian into a sloppy sentimentalism, sometimes even into maybe what is worse, and that is a kind of guilty empathy and sympathy with your subject.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• Much sentimentalism has attached itself to Ashley’s sack and the poetry of Ruth’s embroidered inscription, but the sack was originally an emergency kit, born out of despairing necessity.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Enriquez’s stories are historically aware and class-conscious, but her characters never avail themselves of sentimentalism or comfort.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2017
• Two new books offer important corrections to such sentimentalism.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• The industry touches on ethics and economics, environmentalism and sentimentalism, science and sensationalism, often in surprising ways.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024