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  • It is the Irrationality edged with Sentimentalism which rails and rants against Reason and Logic.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But a recent David Brooks commentary on Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentimentalism" suggests that the conclusion is not so obvious.

    The L-Word 2006

  • But a recent David Brooks commentary on Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentimentalism" suggests that the conclusion is not so obvious.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Largely made up of Emotion are: (1) true Sentiment, which is fine feeling of any sort, and which should not degenerate into Sentimentalism

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • Sentimentalism in the development of the novel, of both of which we shall speak hereafter; but its fullest and most steadily progressive manifestation was in non-dramatic poetry.

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • The Della Crusca of Sentimentalism perished under the

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • Sentimentalism takes the place of religion; filthy literature and fashionable cards shove the Family Bible in some obscure nook of their parlor and their hearts.

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • Sentimentalism does not believe that prevention is better than cure, and practical politicians know too well that a scientific treatment of social maladies is out of the question in this country.

    Cambridge Essays on Education Various

  • Sentimentalism spread a rosy veil over the ugliness, draping it decently.

    Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

  • Sentimentalism is perfectly compatible with a certain strain of egotism, and the sentimental traveler is at bottom much more his own master than is thought.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Edmond Scherer 1917

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