Example sentences for: sentimentality

How can you use “sentimentality” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.

  • It's no coincidence that Golin had his apprenticeships at both Men's Health and Cosmo, two magazines unlikely ever to be accused of sentimentality or pretension.

  • Edokko are suckers for sentimentality and for ninjo: the web of small favors and kindnesses that bind them together.

  • But Goodman makes them believable, at least, despite bits of soggy sentimentality; she makes you care.

  • Few films have ever offered so inspired a blend of sentimentality, Grand Guignol horror, and sophisticated camp, or such deliriously inventive laboratory bric-a-brac.


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