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Harper's calls Purdy a "cornpone prophet" and blasts his "unctuous sentimentality" (Roger D. Hodge).
7) She reflects our empty sentimentality.
Entries mocking the soppy Harvard sentimentality of this exercise, or Chatterbox's low moral standing (as a cyberjournalist) to be fretting about this problem, are not welcome.
A puff of sentimentality is exhaled at the end of the book: Inman is reunited with Ada, only to be shot down at the last minute.
In a famous essay, George Orwell wrote that what makes Dickens so attractive, despite his failures in characterization and a tendency toward sentimentality, is his decency.