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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.
Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business. You have to embrace the future.
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
The Conservatives have never been a party burdened by needless sentimentality; some MPs only keep their children's photos in their wallet to make sure that at the end of term they don't bring the wrong one home.