Sentence examples for artificial sentimentality from inspiring English sources

Keith's standard phrase for his estranged sons - "my little smashers" - is perfect in its artificial sentimentality because the relationship it describes is essentially a fantasy.

The films that he makes on the basis of personal experience (I'm thinking especially of "Dazed and Confused," "Boyhood," and the "Before" trilogy) tend toward sentimentality, artificial sweetness, and moralism.

You want sentiment, not sentimentality.

For all its sentimentality, Steven Spielberg's film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (a project once nursed by Kubrick) is nearer in spirit to 2001 than Interstellar.

In the room's artificial but passionate paradise, East is West, and vice-versa, without the slightest whiff of either sentimentality or condescension.

The settings and character types were related to the audience's milieu; hence the plays were considered to be realistic at the time, although their sentimentality, black-and-white morality, and melodramatic turns of plot make them seem highly artificial in modern terms.

So much for sentimentality.

It wasn't sentimentality.

It also veers toward sentimentality.

And sentimentality can be pernicious.

She recalls that era without sentimentality.