How to Use sentimentality in a Sentence

sentimentality

noun

• There’s a sentimentality that comes out in a lot of shoots.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 31 May 2018
• But Chance didn’t so much bask in sentimentality as dance right over it.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• There wasn’t time, though, for sentimentality Monday, to think about his own Olympic dream, the one that never was.
  — Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Grealy writes without sentimentality and finds a way to fill the book with joy.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• The sentimentality behind the trip means that the cost is of less importance.
  — Jordy Fee-Platt, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
• This is one of the keys to the two movies’ appeal, how their worship of speed and noise gives them cover to wallow in macho sentimentality.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• Still, the soupy sentimentality of the picture does jar.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• Australia will have no time to bask in the sentimentality of the occasion.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2018
• Some of the lovey-dovey moments come close to pure sentimentality—but her sense of humor has a way of keeping them lively.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
• Just a nice ring to them, nice warmth, nice sentimentality.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
• Kara’s scenes are full of swelling strings and mawkish sentimentality that seem to be begging you to Feel Something Now.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
• But there’s no room for sentimentality with so much at stake.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• For perhaps the first time in her career, Ms. Wertmüller faced the charge of sentimentality.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Of course, sentimentality is what the restaurant aims for: Dear Inga aims to do what its name announces.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• The end-of-year sentimentality is steadily welling up (this year more than ever).
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2020
• The sentimentality of it all threatens to slip into treacle, but the directors and their cast walk the line with enough restraint to strike the right balance.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• One last season at Chelsea, for the sake of sentimentality.
  — SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The aughts, thanks to shows like Mad Men, also had an air of ’60s sentimentality, for example.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
• Loyalty looks like sentimentality when there’s little reason to think that a stretch of inspired play in May and June could put a team over the top.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 23 Aug. 2017
• To insist on reading it thus is to indulge in a sentimentality that weakens the stab of this music.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
• This sentimentality towards the past is more than a sign of resistance to progress.
  — Will Johnson, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• And the overt sentimentality of the ending is a minor letdown, too, for a movie that’s otherwise filmed with just enough restraint to stave off eye-rolls.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 1 June 2018
• The sentimentality of handwritten letters and handmade cards hasn’t gone the way of Blockbuster, at least for me.
  — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
• But Donoghue doesn’t just play it for laughs — or sentimentality.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• The idea began to form in his mind that something greater lay behind his sentimentality — a whole culture and heritage that might be thrown away.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• Hustle has some of the tension of his serious movies, and a little of the underdog sentimentality of his comedies, and the remix pays off.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
• Cry Macho is unabashed in its sentimentality, to the point of being almost too swift about it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Such devices, and the film as a whole, threaten to slip into sentimentality.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
• This closeness, shown without a smidgen of sentimentality, serves as the saving grace of these women’s lives.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
• Vanilla is nostalgia bottled—and there are many ways to spritz on sentimentality.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024