Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair. |
The keyboard warriors should learn to distinguish between morale and sentimentality. |
Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation. |
Life today is guided not by logic and reason but rather by emotion, fear and sentimentality. |
Umberto D appears as a remarkable accomplishment today, a film that evokes our sympathy for its protagonist without sentimentality. |
And if practicality is your wont rather than sentimentality, you should still go. |