sentimentalities

BUT these sentiments, even if anybody could have been found patient enough to listen to them, would have been called sentimentalities, or worse, in the spring of 1861, by the inhabitants of any of those States lying between Maryland and Mexico.

Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

And it whams straight into salt-of-the-earth sentimentalities: the less heart the better is a general rule here.

Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married Susannah Clapp 2010

For the most part, it would be easy to diagram the cause of these connections with the guidance of some psychiatric counsel, to label each of us with some short list of disorders and to blame everything on bad chemicals, but being forced apart from anyone for legitimate reason makes even the most well-intended insights arbitrary and the random sentimentalities strangely unbearable.

Autumn in the Afterward Casey McGrath 2011

You have recently shown a tendency to humanitarian scruples and other sentimentalities of that sort.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

Thanks to John and Sara Powell for your friendship and encouragement, and for staying and standing with me and my family while reminiscing with me about the precious memories of our COGIC roots sentimentalities.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

Thanks to John and Sara Powell for your friendship and encouragement, and for staying and standing with me and my family while reminiscing with me about the precious memories of our COGIC roots sentimentalities.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

Thanks to John and Sara Powell for your friendship and encouragement, and for staying and standing with me and my family while reminiscing with me about the precious memories of our COGIC roots sentimentalities.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

This movement was informed by an evangelical fervor which some of us may be pardoned for preferring to the sentimentalities of the Oxford groups.

Obama and Niebuhr 2010

Thanks to John and Sara Powell for your friendship and encouragement, and for staying and standing with me and my family while reminiscing with me about the precious memories of our COGIC roots sentimentalities.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

PATRICK KENNEDY, (D) RHODE ISLAND: Well, my dad, as I've always said, is kind of old Irish, didn't like to talk about feelings and sentimentalities.

CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009 2009