Definition of Sentimentality

Sentimentality

The quality or state of being sentimental.

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Being, Of, Or, Quality, Sentimental, State, The

Sentimentality Quotations

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
Lionel Blue

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
John Barton

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Alice Hamilton

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Max Beckmann

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Lasse Hallstrom

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Max Beckmann

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
Michael Lewis

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Robert Frank

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
Toots Thielemans

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
Leonora Carrington

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Sentimentality Translations

sentimentality in Spanish is sentimentalismo

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