Sentimentalism

All of which you characterize as sentimentalism -- so says ❋ Franklin Knight Lane (1892)

On the other hand, what replaced it was far worse, and I tend to reject claims that the old sentimentalism is aesthetically equal to Glory & Praise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tagore was a major world poet and artist, whose sentimentalism is sometimes misunderstood, no doubt. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One thing for sure, there was no sentimentalism from the five-time NHL leading scorer as he took off his Pittsburgh jersey for the last time. ❋ Unknown (2001)

What they call sentimentalism is greater sensibility, greater sympathy, a keener sense of justice. ❋ Unknown (1911)

There was need of such a sentiment to be somehow kindled, to counteract the ascendancy of a certain sentimentalism that prevails too much in our days. ❋ Pastor O. E. Daggett (1865)

The gentleman from Ohio refers in strong terms to what he calls the sentimentalism of the North. ❋ Unknown (1862)

But "sentimentalism" -- projecting a value, often an aesthetic one, onto some aspect of the natural world, and then intervening to maintain that aspect of the world from any changes that other natural processes might otherwise bring about -- is what environmentalism is all about. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic. ❋ REN (1968)

Part of what complicates Wordsworth’s regendering of Della Cruscan sentimentalism is the confrontation between the real pain of rustic life — an emasculating pain, as evinced in the 1798 lyrical ballads — and the pain of romance so celebrated in the metrical ballads of Percy. ❋ Unknown (1999)

That which pedants of that time and this time would have called the sentimentalism of Dickens was really simply the detached sanity of Dickens. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Mr. Leslie Stephen [3] points out the connection between the three currents of tendency known as sentimentalism, romanticism, and naturalism. ❋ Unknown (1886)

"sentimentalism" -- Agatha's little infatuation being included therein; but the frequency of such infatuations existing in the world around us argues some truth at their origin. ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

Now I think it has become conflated with "sentimentalism" which I think means false or manufactured sentiment and thus only has a derisive meaning. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Quite the contrary, it represents modern society's overcoming its impulses, such as sentimentalism, squeamishness and, most of all, the restful flight from being "" judgmental. '' ❋ Unknown (2008)

A leader of an emerging generation of up-and-coming "new Europe" pragmatists, he prizes fiscal and economic reform over the "sentimentalism" of Europe's idealistic postwar architects. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He is master of an overblown sentimentalism which is difficult to appreciate today, but he also commands an angry satire and humour on many levels. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

Rather than "sentimentalism," Ann says that the better value here should be "ecological balance" and "protecting the environment." ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

I almost [cried] when I had to throw out my favorite [teddy bear]; I was acting [sentimental]. ❋ Fluffypanda39 (2017)

I can't [throw] out this [junk], i'm too sentimental. I'm so sentimental, I'm [emo]. ❋ Nikora (2006)

She said I could cum anywhere I wanted so I busted "The Sentimental" inside the [antique] [jewelry box] her [dead grandmother] gave her. ❋ Mo Jondles (2006)

❋ Chris (2003)

Man, [Sentiment's] [Art Show] last night was [Derp] ❋ MikeIsDerp (2010)

"drink [the sentimental], [dick height] [incremental]." ❋ Lord Mzok (2004)

[Humanity] is [wracked] with a perverted sentimentality. ❋ Bud E. (2018)

When Jane moved out of her house, she needed to [rent] 3 [storage] [lockers] to store all of the things she couldn't part with. She suffered from Sentimental Retardation. ❋ Jcbailaz (2011)

[Joanne] loved to [ski], however at night she experienced sentimentalized eroticism with her partner which helped her [cope with] her everyday life of skiing. John instead of having a very joyful erotic experience with his partner he decided he didn’t feel to happy that day so he participated in sentimentalized eroticism that day. ❋ RileyNoctus407 (2023)

John is a real [mess]. [Everytime] his life gets tough he calls his ex-girlfriends and feels like he [is right] back with them even when that chick hasn't heard from him in years. I think he has gross sentimentality. ❋ John Laurich (2007)