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Meanings of sentimentality in English
Catalan
sensibleria Spanish
superficialidad Russian
сентиментальность Spanish
sentimentalidad Appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.
Usage of sentimentality in English
1
My grandmother was not given to sentiment, and certainly not shtetl sentimentality.
2
One might question a coda that teeters on the edge of sentimentality.
3
The next moment, the grave, shy countryman had smiled at his sentimentality.
4
She seemed displeased at being surprised in the very act of sentimentality.
5
A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality.
6
Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
7
Burns and sentimentality coming across you and Frank Floodgate in the office.
8
I half-yielded to the impulse of sentimentality and turned to him appealingly.
9
There isn't a football manager around who picks on sentimentality, he said.
10
Mr. Watling had the gift of expressing his feelings naturally, without sentimentality.
11
A wide-spread sentimentality, curiously mixed of love and letters, enveloped the peninsula.
12
He is a master of evoking personal memories with wit and sentimentality.
13
It is my duty to consider these points, and they override sentimentality.
14
But their spiritual love never rose above empty sentimentality and hysterical rapture.
15
Examples of this form of sentimentality are more numerous than we think.
16
Her parents complain about the sentimentality, and the commercialization of a myth.
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Translations for sentimentality
Catalan
Spanish
Russian
Sentimentality through the time
Sentimentality across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common