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sentimentality
1. The topic of sexuality and aging is often treated with tremendous sentimentality or with derisive humor, and it is hard for some people to conceive of sexual desire and passion among the elderly except in terms of lechery
2. I don‘t believe in the ―Age of Innocence‖, although I believe that recent generations have witnessed a rescission of innocence in proportion to mitigating sentiment in contrast with sentimentality
3. Sentimentality is the childish offspring of Sentiment and soft sensuality!
4. He then composed a letter to Elizabeth, deliberately avoiding sentimentality
5. ” Ken began self-consciously as Colonel Geist studied him carefully, “Call it insanity, madness, sentimentality or whatever you will
6. He pleaded for sympathy without sentimentality, piety without sanctimoniousness
7. love for parents, feelings, friendship, doing things for friendship and everything else all related to this sentimentality
8. And if this sentimentality is not relinquished, you will be unable to practise cultivation
9. affection and plagued by them throughout their lives, they will find it too late to regret at the end of their lives," and "If this sentimentality is not relinquished, you will be unable to practice cultivation
10. pathetic sentimentality that the Saxon majority was somehow in-
11. One reason was sentimentality, as she still loved Montreal
12. this "naïvete" and tells him he is "wallowing in sentimentality"
13. Ingrid had chosen the female helicopter group of her helicopter wing for the assault on Karlsruhe, along with a female heavy transport group of her Ninth Tactical Air Command, for a number of reasons that had little to do with feminism or sentimentality
14. This is what a Legalist would refer to as "good results versus moral sentimentality
15. ‘Man would nurse animosity lacking perceptivity, burdens himself with sentimentality, courts trouble thoughtlessly and then turns to god-men for deliverance
16. As she wondered whether man-woman attraction could be bound by sentimentality, she ventured on the path of adultery, ‘should Roopa itch for a romantic escapade, then Raja could easily out-tempt every other suitor of hers, given his personality as well as proximity to her
17. Though he grew up in an environment of sentimentality, he imbibed a balanced outlook that his stint as the Czar of Medina turned into statesmanship
18. Sentimentality is only feelings describing a state of mind enclosed with pain, emerging from an abusing unconsicous system
19. So, what is it to have Life as the foundation of value, not as theoretical sentimentality, but in the daily practice of eating, working, self-entertainment and the endless voting habits of your dollar spending and gift giving?
20. Learn this – sentimentality is not spirituality
21. of sentimentality as Sue stepped over to Zem and Bev and held the plate
22. Then Sue said with happy sentimentality in her voice, “You’re both so
23. the same time with a bit of sentimentality to their thoughts, “Thank you
24. Ahndray would love these people,” she said with more sentimentality than she expected
25. The stereo-soundtrack was excellent, he loved the music, a grand orchestration of sentimentality
26. He was full of sentimentality at this moment
27. In it I describe our not invariably smooth relations, which I came to regret later not only out of a sentimentality that comes with the nostalgia of carefree days and the passage of time but also out of self-interest
28. We embraced emotionally and sadly, but, thankfully, without sentimentality and declarations of love and eternal fidelity
29. avoiding sentimentality and mawkishness
30. He was not one for sentimentality
31. way and in our own time,' she said intently, and I liked that sentimentality of her remark
32. If he had had more penetration he would have seen that there was no trace of sentimentality in him, but something indeed quite the opposite
33. What superlatives! What adjectives! How acquit Bonamy of sentimentality of the grossest sort; of being tossed like a cork on the waves; of having no steady insight into character; of being unsupported by reason, and of drawing no comfort whatever from the works of the classics?
34. The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came
35. Waking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and immediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was positively amazed at my last night's sentimentality with Liza, at all those
36. He thought he was too sane for such sentimentality, and she thought herself too lofty
37. He would never have got so far in the direction of sentimentality as to read poetry to his own family
38. I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!"
39. Bigwig's spirit was as tough as his body and quite without sentimentality, but,
40. Even though they were ostensibly meeting as two old friends, there was no doubt that Armansky only wanted to talk about Salander and, with the help of a few drinks, indulge in a spot of sentimentality
41. And to avoid condemning the father with whom he lived and on whom he was dependent, and, above all, to avoid giving way to sentimentality, which he considered so degrading, Seryozha tried not to look at his uncle who had come to disturb his peace of mind, and not to think of what he recalled to him
42. No one who’d ever had the misfortune to deal with the Earl of Thirsk’s irascible valet would have accused Sahbrahan of sensitivity or anything remotely approaching sentimentality
43. My Dad never spoke of his father’s harder times with any self-pity or sentimentality, but my Nana had bitter memories about the stigma of the Means Test
44. The caretaker was so struck with their innocent appearance, and with the elegance of Tess's gown hanging across a chair, her silk stockings beside it, the pretty parasol, and the other habits in which she had arrived because she had none else, that her first indignation at the effrontery of tramps and vagabonds gave way to a momentary sentimentality over this genteel elopement, as it seemed
45. Waking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and immediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was positively amazed at my last night's SENTIMENTALITY with Liza, at all those "outcries of horror and pity
46. Enough of this sentimentality crap
47. At first, it was merely sentimentality that led people to conceal books in their homes; perhaps it had been an ancestor’s gift, or a favourite and well-loved volume
48. Such sentimentality, ever since that documentary! I signed off for the evening
49. ‘Is it just sentimentality, old wives’ tales, or is she right?’ he asked himself
50. “Mac,” he said, “you’re the craziest mess of cruelty and haus-frau sentimentality, of clear vision and rose-colored glasses I ever saw