Sentence examples similar to nearing sentimentality from inspiring English sources

Meadows presents a startlingly odd mix of near-treacly sentimentality and looming menace of extreme violence.

You want sentiment, not sentimentality.

Sentiment without sentimentality was always my goal".

The lyrics of Parvīn Eʿteṣāmī (died 1940) are regarded as near classics, despite a trace of sentimentality in their sympathetic treatment of the poor.

Indeed, Belichick has, over the years, famously eschewed sentimentality, cutting big-name, expensive players to make room for cheaper near-replacements and getting rid of fan favorites with what can appear to be a cold lack of ceremony.

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.

He may be the only person ever to emerge from a near-death experience wryer than ever, his already acute sensibility sharpened, and not a smidgen of sentimentality added.

The simple narrative, built around the near-mythical Christmas truce between the trenches of 1914, has just the right blend of poignancy and sentimentality to bring a tear to the most cynical eye.

So much for sentimentality.

It wasn't sentimentality.

It also veers toward sentimentality.