| The great cause why modern humor and modern sentimentalism repel us, is that they are unwarrantably familiar. |
| Representing croppers who aspired to the middle class was essential to the sentimentalism of the documentary form. |
| Because Nelson focuses on style and its relations to feeling, she is able to avoid the double binds of sentimentalism in her own analysis. |
| It is meant to act as a check on the problematic impulses of romance and sentimentalism. |
| The anarchic comedy of these performers effectively tempers Baxter's tendency towards deferential sentimentalism. |
| That sentimentalism still can be felt in the emotional landscape of America. |
