Definition of Sentimentality

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Definition of Sentimentality
	Sentimentality The quality or state of being sentimental. Related Definitions: Being, Of, Or, Quality, Sentimental, State, The

Sentimentality Quotations

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Norman Mailer

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Robert Frank

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
Lionel Blue

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
John Barton

Sentimentality Translations

sentimentality in Spanish is sentimentalismo

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