sentimentality
US /ˌsɛntəmɛnˈtælɪti/
・UK /ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti/
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n. (u.)Uncountable NounQuality of producing emotion to easily or strongly
Some readers disliked the author's extreme sentimentality about his childhood
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Why You Need to Have a Proper Adolescence
- and see all their incompetence and stupidity without a filter of sentimentality or fear:
and see all their incompetence and stupidity without a filter of sentimentality or fear:
How to Work Out the Emotional Maturity of Prospective Partners
- Could they have the strength of mind and faith in dialogue to be able to tell you the difficult things about themselves, could they avoid sentimentality and obfuscation, lies and prevarications?
Could they have the strength of mind and faith in dialogue to be able to tell you the difficult things about themselves, could they avoid sentimentality and obfuscation, lies and prevarications?
- Could they avoid sentimentality and obfuscation, lies and prevarications?
Could they avoid sentimentality and obfuscation, lies and prevarications?
David Foster Wallace - The Problem with Irony
- and the irony in the show is balanced with earnest sentimentality.
and the irony in the show is balanced with earnest sentimentality.
- sentimentality
sentimentality
President Obama and Jimmy Had an Awkward First Meeting
- You're talking about sentimentality.
You're talking about sentimentality.
- You're talking about sentimentality.
You're talking about sentimentality.
HBO's "Silicon Valley" | Talks at Google
- It still is Mike Judge's sentimentality level, which is small.
It still is Mike Judge's sentimentality level, which is small.
- It still is Mike Judge's sentimentality level
It still is Mike Judge's sentimentality level
50 AMAZING Facts About Star Wars!
- but there is a popular theory that Vader is actually protecting C-3PO out of sentimentality for having been C-3PO's creator.
but there is a popular theory that Vader is actually protecting C-3PO out of sentimentality for having been C-3PO's creator.
- out of sentimentality for having been C-3PO's creator.
out of sentimentality for having been C-3PO's creator.
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Manners
- Poitiers, France, 1152. French Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry II of England at her court in the south of France. She employs a poet, the troubadour Bernard de Ventadon, to compose songs of love for her and her husband. This sounds merely romantic, but the songs are not simple sentimentality. They are part of Eleanor's subtle attempt to civilise her husband and the men around him by putting into verse how a good man should treat his lady. She and her ladies-in-waiting learn to use poetry to set expectations of how military men should act around women. Slowly, thanks in part to Eleanor, an attitude known as chivalry develops in the courts of Europe, an idea that men need to moderate their force and sexual impulses to protect what is termed the honour and dignity of women. Eleanor of
Poitiers, France, 1152. French Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry II of England at her court in the south of France. She employs a poet, the troubadour Bernard de Ventadon, to compose songs of love for her and her husband. This sounds merely romantic, but the songs are not simple sentimentality. They are part of Eleanor's subtle attempt to civilise her husband and the men around him by putting into verse how a good man should treat his lady. She and her ladies-in-waiting learn to use poetry to set expectations of how military men should act around women. Slowly, thanks in part to Eleanor, an attitude known as chivalry develops in the courts of Europe, an idea that men need to moderate their force and sexual impulses to protect what is termed the honour and dignity of women. Eleanor of
- This sounds merely romantic, but the songs are not simple sentimentality.
This sounds merely romantic, but the songs are not simple sentimentality.
Young Dracula - BBC Series - Season 4 Ep 11 "Bootiful Breathers"
- -Because breathers have an unfathomable sentimentality
-Because breathers have an unfathomable sentimentality
The Legend of Korra Analysis: Elemental Errors? | Beyond Pictures
- draws on skewed sentimentality and world building rather than concentrating on the sincerity
draws on skewed sentimentality and world building rather than concentrating on the sincerity
Conversation between JK Rowling and Steve Kloves (2011)
- And you and I, who are violently allergic to sentimentality in any form.
And you and I, who are violently allergic to sentimentality in any form.
- allergic to sentimentality in your form
allergic to sentimentality in your form