Example Sentences

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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

Adaptations of Victor Hugo’s paean to human suffering are inevitably bushwhacked by the novel’s mounting sentimentalities and coincidences.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2019

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

In 1889, the enormous popularity in Britain of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused George Bernard Shaw to lampoon its Sunday-school sentimentalities and its Music-school ornamentalities’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall