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Forward-facing as ever, Ferry does admit that organizing the book itself, and sitting with the wide range of lyrics he’d penned over the years, did provide him with small regrets and sentimentalities.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Our own sentimentalities will be twice removed before long.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2016

There are two or three big sentimentalities here.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013

This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2011

You can’t be a modem woman and insist on the old sentimentalities.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez