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sentimentalism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| Derivation | sentimentalist |
sentimentalism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | expression, formulation |
| Has types | slop, glop, treacle, mush |
Examples of sentimentalism
sentimentalism
Flip him open to find a sappy sentimentalism that connects with the humanity inside us.
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The result is a deep sympathy for Mary without over-sentimentalism.
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It seeps into untold media reports and untold media sentimentalism.
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Not nostalgic sentimentalism, but reality supported by the surveys.
From the guardian.co.uk
Such a brusque dismissal also expressed the artist's distancing himself from sentimentalism.
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Philosophically, sentimentalism was often contrasted to rationalism.
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I have never understood the Modernist prohibition against sentimentalism and emotional appeals.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fair Ball reveals none of the weepy sentimentalism of a purist disappointed in the modern game.
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Sentimentalism in philosophy and sentimentalism in literature are sometimes hard to distinguish.
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- The excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
- A predilection for sentimentality
- Sentimentalism (literally, appealing to the sentiments, also called maudlinism), as a literary and political discourse, has occurred much in the literary traditions of all regions in the world, and is central to the traditions of Indian literature, Chinese literature, and Vietnamese literature ( ...
- (Sentimentalist) Sentimentality is both a literary device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation at hand, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and a heightened reader response ...
- Is one of the important trends in English literature of the middle and later decades of the 18^th century. It justly criticized the cruelty of the capitalist relations and the gross social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions. ...
