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Example sentences for "sentimentalities"

Lexicographically close words:
sentimental; sentimentalise; sentimentalism; sentimentalist; sentimentalists; sentimentality; sentimentalize; sentimentalized; sentimentalizing; sentimentally
  1. Now he began to curse anew his fate, for now he began to see that after all he had been finely juggling with himself, and postponing with himself, and in meditative sentimentalities wasting the moments consecrated to instant action.

  2. Whilst these sentimentalities were going on, it is to be presumed that Mr. Warrington kept his own counsel about his affairs out-of-doors, which we have seen were in the very worst condition.

  3. Sentiments were not lacking, though they lay out of sight, but sentimentalities he altogether denied.

  4. It was illustrative of the man's character that sentimentalities found no place in his nature.

  5. No answer to the question, "How shall sickly sentimentalities solace your shame if in the blood of your mulatto grandchild the vigorous red jungle corpuscles of some savage ancestor shall overmatch your more gentle endowment.

  6. No more sentimentalities for me, thank you.

  7. Who would connect this woman of iron and toil and sweat, of noise and motion, with the sentimentalities of two children?

  8. Of course, I am not talking sentimentalities to you; we are not David and Elizabeth!

  9. Now, the idea of a divorce so easy and wilful as Mr. Shaw proposes arises naturally out of an exclusive consideration of what I may call the amorous sentimentalities of marriage.

  10. Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitious sentimentalities and genteel skilfulness that find their fitting mausoleum in the Tate Gallery?

  11. But these were sentimentalities of which the Spartan traditions of the underground movement had taught him to be ashamed.

  12. You had better save your sentimentalities for novices," Pavel said.

  13. They lift themselves above the barren utilitarianism of everyday life, and no less above the maudlin sentimentalities that men seek pleasure in.

  14. Nor is she, susceptible to the stock sentimentalities upon which the whole democratic process is based.

  15. And once a bottle of Cte Rtie or Scharlachberger is in her, even the least emotional woman shows the same complex of sentimentalities that a man shows, and is as maudlin and idiotic as he is.

  16. The world has kept sentimentalities simply because they are the most practical things in the world.

  17. He came to stare at our general elections as a Red Indian might stare at the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, blind to all its irrelevant sentimentalities and to some of its legitimate sentiments.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentimentalities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.