On the contrary, he had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds.
Horrified by the awful scenes of the Terror, they hastened to divest themselves of the principles which led to such results, and sank into a kind of optimistic conservatism that harmonised well with the virtuous sentimentalism in vogue.
All grades of speech and thought are made use of, and the sickening sentimentalism of some of them is disgusting.
The gentleman from Ohio refers in strong terms to what he calls the sentimentalism of the North.
In the United States a concomitant sentimentalism has concocted measures like the honor system which, naturally failing of their purpose, have undermined confidence in the idea of scientific diagnosis and treatment of crime.
Some contemporary clap-trap about sentimentalism will perhaps decry and ridicule the demand for an apotheosis of it.
It will, no doubt, also be said that a decided reaction in our popular literature against sentimentalism has already commenced.
Trained in thesentimentalism of the age, and to regard love as a feeling dependent on causes beyond our control, our young people marry, expecting from marriage what it has not, and cannot give.
You scold me for my hostility to the sentimentalism of the day, you scold me then for any act of common human sympathy, and now you take me to task because I foresee how you will address me in a letter.
Then came your opposition to my crusade against the sentimentalism of the day.
Sentimentalism approaches its subject through the feelings; romanticism through the imagination.
Your philosophic problems about the relation of “the universe to moral and spiritual good” exist only in the sentimentalism that generates them.
Stop: there is one evil, one pain, which the doctrine mitigates--the hystericsentimentalism which is troubled because the universe as a whole does not sustain good as a whole.
Modern sentimentalism is revolted at the frank naturalism of Aristotle in saying that some are slaves by nature and others free by nature.
Thus that sympathy with the small or the defeated as such, with which we Liberals and Nationalists have been often reproached, is not a useless sentimentalism at all, as Mr. Wells and his friends fancy.
Here we have a state of things which no man in his senses would ever dream of wishing to continue if he had not been bewitched by the sentimentalism of the mere word "union.
He was the foremost of English sentimentalists, and he had that taint of insincerity which distinguishessentimentalism from genuine sentiment, like Goldsmith's, for example.
In Richardson's novels appears, for the first time, thatsentimentalism which now began to infect European literature.
I look upon a great deal of the modern sentimentalism about Nature as a mark of disease.
His rehabilitation has come solely because of that element condemned by Lowell as a certain "modern sentimentalism about Nature.
But sentimentalism is essentially self-deception; and the Gospels make it clear that of all human sins and weaknesses none seems to have stirred the anger of Jesus as did self-deception.
It is only the sentimentalism of the church that supposes the flabby-minded to be at home in the Kingdom of God.
There was no sentimentalism in it; it was the spirit of Jesus spiritualizing and transforming and extending the natural instinct of brotherliness by making it theocentric.
The experience of the heroines of anti-slavery show that no finespun sentimentalism in regard to woman's position in the clouds ever exempt her from the duties or penalties of a citizen.
Diderot's attachment to Grimm seems like an exaggeration of the excesses of the epoch of sentimentalism in Germany.
Grimm, however, knew better than Diderot how to unite German sentimentalism with a steady selfishness.
This little burst of grotesque sentimentalism is one of the pieces that justify the description of Diderot as the most German of all the French.
As a matter of fact, Janet had no mean ideas of design; but they were vigorous and, for her living, she had to struggle against the overwhelming sentimentalism of the nouveau art.
Still more highly generalized is his Address to the Unco Guid, a plea for charity in judgment, kept from sentimentalism by its gleam of humor.
Similarly, most of the lyrics addressed to Clarinda in Edinburgh are marked by the sentimentalism and affectation of an affair that engaged only one side, and that among the least pleasing, of the many-sided temperament of the poet.
It is this sentimentalism that is abhorrent to us.
Women's Social and Political Union] that sentimentalism is now rampant.
There is much in his verses of that sentimentalism which, I have already said in speaking of Southwell, is rife in modern Catholic poetry.
There is also a good deal of sentimentalism in the poem, a fault from which I fear modern Catholic verse is rarely free.
I have left out just three stanzas, because of the sentimentalism of which I have spoken: I would have left out more if I could have done so without spoiling the symmetry of the poem.
He could only carry the picturesque sentimentalism of Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand a little farther, and clothe it in language and verse a little less antiquated than that of Chenedolle and Millevoye.
I do not think sentimentalism of any sort can be laid at my door.
Probably, however, the imputation of sentimentalism repels fewer readers from Sterne to-day than that of immorality.
That, I think, is how sentimentalismshould be conducted.
This escape from self-pity and individual sentimentalism is in line with Edison's advice to get busy at something useful if you would avoid temptation and foolishness.
I refer to what is only a different aspect of that sentimentalismor chronic emotionalism to which I have already called attention.
This is the sentimentalism of those "Who sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies.
Beauty is precisely as relevant to moral goodness as it is to truth; and if investigators were taught to devise the prettiest theory imaginable, the result would be no more fatal to knowledge than is aesthetic sentimentalism to life.
A second important case of sentimentalismis nationalism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentimentalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bathos; mush; nostalgia; romanticism; sentiment; sentimentality; slop; slush
