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Sentimentality is created through an excess of sentiment or feeling -- in excess of what is warranted by the situation from which it arises -- and It's a Wonderful Life is not excessive in any respect.
Film 2008
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Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing us of judgment and moral acuity, and it needs to be resisted.
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Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing us of judgment and moral acuity, and it needs to be resisted.
SeeLight: 2007
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"Sentimentality," wrote the lawyer-poet Wallace Stevens, "is failed feeling," and, if Stevens was right, it seems I am a man whose feelings fail a great deal . . . or else I simply prefer Emily Dickinson's sentiment that "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."
Archive 2009-12-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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"Sentimentality," wrote the lawyer-poet Wallace Stevens, "is failed feeling," and, if Stevens was right, it seems I am a man whose feelings fail a great deal . . . or else I simply prefer Emily Dickinson's sentiment that "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."
News at Eleven: But whatever Darwinian evolution my tear ducts Rus Bowden 2009
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See also Thomas Winter, "Sentimentality" in Bret E. Carroll, ed.,
SharperIron 2009
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3 A brief but helpful discussion of sentimentalism can be found under the heading "Sentimentality" in Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz,
SharperIron 2009
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Sentimentality works against common sense when it involves “mental exaggeration” that “transforms true pity into a false sensibility, the exaggeration of which deteriorates the true value of things.”
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Sentimentality works against common sense when it involves “mental exaggeration” that “transforms true pity into a false sensibility, the exaggeration of which deteriorates the true value of things.”
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Sentimentality, nostalgia, and any more thoughts of "what just happened?" are about as useful as a horse kicking me in the teeth.
Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce Sally Fay 2011
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