It was a sludgy, mawkish outlet that dripped with breathtaking emotional manipulation, and it would stop at nothing to reach a baseline of sheer lowest common denominator sentimentality.
Mary's self-centredness undercuts the sentimentality common in Victorian-era portrayals of children.
The shorts are pitiless parodies of the sentimentality common in animation and British television series, here juxtaposed with a cracked family dynamic.
Newman's reckless deployment of some big plot guns (cancer, suicide, murder, visions - oh, and aliens) can lead to florid phrases, and there's the strain of outrageous sentimentality common to those who have spent time in the Unhappy Childhood Museum, but her themes (sibling affection and rivalry, loneliness, the mistrust in one's own capacity to love) resonate with emotional truth.
His work is marked by a lack of the sentimentality common to ukiyo-e, and a focus on formalism influenced by Western art.
Solomon remarks, "The most common charge against sentimentality is that it involves false emotion" and displacement we are moved not because of the movie before us, but for our own lost youth, lost connection, lost familial love.
You want sentiment, not sentimentality.
Sentimentality is their common feature, a quality that was to characterize Rockwell's magazine illustrations throughout his career.
It turns out this bass note of sentimentality is a common club channel theme, perhaps a natural flipside to the dominant parping triumphalism.
Her 80th birthday this year brought forth a slew of publications designed for those who prefer their reading matter big on photos, long on sentimentality and short on common sense.
