Sentimentality of any kind is alien to the author's nature, but not tenderness, especially that sparing sort which gives his life to the man who is down.
Sentimentality is the bane of religion in our day; subservience to popularity degrades the pulpit as it degrades the press.
But its protest on the one hand against the "proper" sentimentality of such English guides of female youth as Drs.
Fordyce and Gregory, on the other against the "improper" sentimentality of Rousseau, is genuine and generous.
This is very just; are we yet sure, however, that the simplicity of this old favourite of Europe might not have been as much a theatrical gesture as the sentimentality of Sterne?
His sentimentality is also dear to the heart of youth, and the boy who is dazzled by his satire is melted by his easy pathos.
He was quixotic, generous and impulsive, but like many men who do extremely romantic things, he thought himself quite above sentimentality and entirely master of his heart.
But he forgot his remorse as speedily as he dissipated his money, and sentimentality neither damped his enjoyment nor restrained his energy.
Compare Sassoferrato's Madonnas with the earlier models, and the distinction between sentimentality and sentiment becomes plain.
There is a certain "sweetness" and sentimentality about them which often makes them immensely popular.
There is no resemblance whatever between the affected sentimentality of Dolci and the sincere pathos of this picture.
Their sentimentality made them popular for a while, but it could not save them from the condemnation due to their commonness of thought and poverty of colour.
At first he seemed inclined to follow the bent of his master, but he deserted the study of nature for the pursuit of the ideal, and in doing so he fell into cold sentimentality and tasteless affectation.
I am an American, after all, he often told himself, therefore sentimental, and sentimentality and sensuality are never far asunder.
But sentimentality always ends by wrecking a religion, or a nation, and Christianity is first sentimental, the romantic as opposed to the classic faiths of the Greeks and Romans.
She succumbed because she was too sentimental, and sentimentality breeds altruism, and altruism breeds busybodies, and busy bodies breed war.
His vein is distinctly satiric, ironic; he has the gift of the caricaturist, and that is why so often his tales run either into sentimentality or into the macabrous.
This is, perhaps, an example of that very sentimentality of which this engaging critic has been speaking, for the folk lore of most nations reveals precisely these same qualities.
But, at the same time, it was not fair to circumstances or to people to have a falsesentimentality woven into what was written.
This romantic tendency resulted in fostering sentimentality and in infamous marriages which were contracted and dissolved at pleasure.
Joel Jacoby, the son of a strictly orthodox father, introduced into his "Plaints of a Jew" many untrue outpourings of fantastic sentimentality and a feigned sense of pain; but some of his elegies are ardent and beautifully constructed.
I demonstrated to him the evident contradiction of his instinctive cruelty to the sentimentality that it pleased him to make public.
Sentimentality is in reality only a conception of egotism, under the different forms which it adopts.
In spite of the glitter in which it parades itself, sentimentality will never be anything but the dross of true sentiment.
Men who are often deceived in allowing themselves to feel a sorrow which is only based on the longings of sentimentality become pessimists quickly and deny the existence of deep and enduring affection judged from its superior expression.
Sentimentality and its derivatives, puerile pity and false sensitiveness, can create illusion for those who do not practise the art of reasoning, but the friends of common sense do not hesitate to condemn them for it.
Every excursion into the domain of sentimentality is particularly dangerous, for tourists always fail to carry with them the necessary coinage which one calls common sense.
Now the Shogun speaks to us with that subtlety of analysis which is characteristic and refers to a kind of sentimentality the most frequent and the least excusable.
The impulse reigns supreme there when sentimentality establishes itself, and the desire of judgment, if it makes itself apparent, is quickly shunned, to the profit of illusory reasons, in which pure reason does not intervene.
The myth of the child's kingdom of heaven holds good, in some way or other, wherever in the modern world some sentimentality exists.
He would have accepted all that stupid sentimentality about your grandmother as refined feeling, and you 'd have been blubbering over each other this half-hour.
The sentimentality of this pioneer novel which now seems old-fashioned and even absurd, expressed Queen Anne's day.
The strong streak of Anglo-Saxon in you which gives you a horror of pulling down the fourth wall behind which you hide your sentimentality puts one off.
These facts are simply stated, and yet there is not the least hint of sentimentality or of bathos.
Our modern sentimentalityis a corruption, a softening of genuine humanity.
But his intellectuality and anti-sentimentality are distinguished and serene.
This simple scene in the damp village church, filled with a tender gloom, is rendered with a winning homely plainness, and with that touch of compassionate sentimentality which is the peculiar note of Dagnan-Bouveret.
The representation of vigorous manhood and tempestuous heroism has been here attempted without sentimentality or theatrical heroics.
There is no pandering tosentimentality or the curiosity excited by genre painting.
He would admit Sam's sentimentality and urge putting the matter before his father.
Yet below her discomfort at Sam's sentimentality and his grandfather's strange manner lay a deeper discomfort--a disturbance at the very centres of her life.
