How to Use sentimentality in a Sentence

sentimentality

noun

• Grealy writes without sentimentality and finds a way to fill the book with joy.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• The sentimentality behind the trip means that the cost is of less importance.
  — Jordy Fee-Platt, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
• This is one of the keys to the two movies’ appeal, how their worship of speed and noise gives them cover to wallow in macho sentimentality.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• Still, the soupy sentimentality of the picture does jar.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• Some of the lovey-dovey moments come close to pure sentimentality—but her sense of humor has a way of keeping them lively.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
• For perhaps the first time in her career, Ms. Wertmüller faced the charge of sentimentality.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• The aughts, thanks to shows like Mad Men, also had an air of ’60s sentimentality, for example.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 16 Jan. 2022
• This sentimentality towards the past is more than a sign of resistance to progress.
  — Will Johnson, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• The sentimentality of handwritten letters and handmade cards hasn’t gone the way of Blockbuster, at least for me.
  — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The idea began to form in his mind that something greater lay behind his sentimentality — a whole culture and heritage that might be thrown away.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• Hustle has some of the tension of his serious movies, and a little of the underdog sentimentality of his comedies, and the remix pays off.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
• Cry Macho is unabashed in its sentimentality, to the point of being almost too swift about it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• This closeness, shown without a smidgen of sentimentality, serves as the saving grace of these women’s lives.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
• Lyn doesn’t skimp on the sentimentality, with swelling music and whatnot.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2021
• When Andy finally says goodbye to his box of trusty toys, namely his cowboy Woody, the sentimentality charts through the roof, and most of us are left broken men and women.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2022
• The film combines sentimentality and science in a way that gives it the potential to connect with a broad audience.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• The air is getting colder, the leaves are getting crisp, and our hearts are overloading with sentimentality.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• Lane wrestles with the sentimentality of Branagh’s coming-of-age film, which is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
• Cropped black-and-white photographs of a naked infant lack all sentimentality, abstracting the child to sections of rolling flesh.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• The sentimentality of loss can have a joltingly short half-life; that feels like something Lennon would have understood.
  — Mark Harris, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• As in Richard Wright’s work, the cruelty of Jones’s novels is sometimes flaked with sentimentality.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The lyrics, full of sentimentality and self-doubt, have a hopefulness beneath the cynicism.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• But there was a formal coldness to his art that saved it from sentimentality, a refusal of closure that threw you back on your own life with unanswerable questions.
  — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• Gessen, who is not prone to sentimentality, yet this book, whose plot unfolds through the lives of varied protagonists, is a story of heartbreak.
  — Marci Shore, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• That sentimentality can be preserved in many ways while still letting go of that old or unrealistic idea of what your body ‘should’ look like.
  — Sophie Hanson, Vogue, 24 June 2022
• Even though Schloss writes much of the book from memory in old age, her style celebrates the audacity of the young without sentimentality.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• There’s that real connection to character, that touching connection through the mother and the son … There’s a sentimentality to it that’s just kind of right.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The work — which, according to Bercaw, now hangs at their beach home in Rehoboth, Del. — seems to prioritize sentimentality over posh tastes.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
• Yet the feel-good sentimentality that ultimately, of course, triumphs can’t dispel the threats of failure, even tragedy, that shadow the action.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• Of Women and Salt defies convention and sentimentality and chips away at all manner of myths.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024