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- noun Excessive
sentimentality .
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Examples
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In some ways worse, with a lot of absurd oversentimentality, pointless obscurity, and Matrix-y intrusions.
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Thinking of them dying in a Dickensian world is just ignorant oversentimentality.
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A lot of what he said–including his descriptions of the oversentimentality of the Left, and how that’ s not ultimately helpful–really did resonate.
God, Peace, and Other Unsolvable Problems - Danya Ruttenberg 2004
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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Sex Traffic and The Girl in the Cafe) keeps the subplots, the oversentimentality (most notably in a crucial death scene) and regular supporting cast (Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman) firmly in check. "
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