Sentence examples for cheap emotions from inspiring English sources

They think they're beyond cheap emotions, false hopes, self-indulgent despair, easy answers.

He shamelessly seduced juries with his common man routine — the rumpled suits and suspenders, the gentle country drawl — and his extraordinary closing statements, which he packed with philosophy, poetry and cheap emotions meant to make men cry.

"One thinks what a writer with a great eye for poetical effect like Mr Meredith would have made of such an idea; whereas Mr Wells is content with describing the cheap emotions of a few bank clerks and newspaper touts".

"There's not a cheap emotion or a predictable conclusion to be found," Maria Russo wrote here in 2000.

There's not a cheap emotion or a predictable conclusion to be found in "Assorted Fire Events".

Was his sense of structure a noble refusal to wallow in cheap emotion, or evidence of repression, an inability to let himself go?

While those facts seems to shriek of movie-of-the-week sappiness, the film has barely a trace of cheap emotion.

This wasn't cheap emotion: it represents a massive and irreversible climbdown from the belief that Sweden alone in Europe, almost alone in the world, could offer refuge to anyone who truly deserved it.

Kitsch is a means to cheap emotion.

One of the playwright Dennis Potter's most memorable sayings was that he thought nostalgia was a "second order emotion" – cheap, deceitful and misleading.

To engineer synthetic emotions for cheap effect is bad enough; even worse, Baldwin says, is the sentimentalist who believes her own schlock, confusing the imitation of emotion for emotion itself.