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"sentimentality" Definitions
  1. the fact of being too sentimental

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Often on this album, when Mr. Skiba is singing with sentimentality — punk sentimentality, but felt all the same — Mr. Hoppus stays out of the way.
Sentimentality on a visual level is very satisfying to me.
Barón Biza prefers to forgo decorum rather than risk sentimentality.
Sentimentality is indeed a good reason to do things sometimes.
I live by the creed that sentimentality is for suckers.
Klimple's sentimentality ebbed into resignation as the afternoon wore on.
Rescuing the station was deeper than just nostalgia and sentimentality.
From sentimentality and from dustiness Hockney's works are entirely free.
There is not an ounce of sentimentality in this show.
Putting sentimentality aside, clearly the Rio 2016 Games must not proceed.
They're embracing its sentimentality, its innocence, and above all, its romance.
I am not big on sentimentality when it comes to clothing.
Sentimentality "is an indulgence in emotion," he said in an interview.
Every catastrophe is educational, even if such an assertion risks sentimentality.
There's a bit of sentimentality as he shows off his domain.
But she is no less truculent in the face of sentimentality.
" Then without a hint of sentimentality, "That world is long gone.
Trump and many of his backers have little time for such sentimentality.
But he was always interested in musical sentimentality and nostalgia as themes.
He thinks his occasional internet searches of former friends stems from sentimentality.
Justin has darker memories, and Aaron's sentimentality about the group unnerves him.
Mr Cuarón's film is thus a Mexican "Upstairs, Downstairs", shorn of sentimentality.
Manifest has officially shed any delusions of This Is Us-ian sentimentality.
The result was coverage saturated by sentimentality, expressing nothing but dull earnestness.
But what did surprise me about Todd was his lack of sentimentality.
"Father Principe detested Christian sentimentality or comic-book religious aspects," Scorsese said.
Ms. Mao, who usually declines interviews, reflected on her past without sentimentality.
To care too much is to succumb to sentimentality and dreaded groupthink.
"Don't Call Me Son" is notable for its utter lack of sentimentality.
No sentimentality: only an honest examination of language, gravities, crosscurrents of wind.
The sentimentality between him and his guitar is very powerful for me.
He writes like a scientist, utterly shorn of sentimentality, patient and cleareyed.
It's the one moment where we put some sentimentality and feeling into it.
"I was just awash with sentimentality and more appreciative of it," adds Goodman.
But Adrian Pearce of Edmonton, Canada is taking sentimentality to the next level.
"Sunset Song" is the story of one woman's true grit, told without sentimentality.
Her story-lines are predictable, the suspense minimal, the sentimentality cloying every page.
Like every kind of love, the love of bars is bathed in sentimentality.
What we needed in Brussels was sobriety and what we got was sentimentality.
That's the shift from 'ties-that-bind' and community sentimentality to modernist thinking.
The comparison illustrates the degree to which this material risks cliché and sentimentality.
There is no clash of cultures that can't be mitigated through pure sentimentality.
"How we deliver defense cannot be dominated by sentimentality," he told the newspaper.
Their urgency, though, was tempered by a degree of sentimentality, verging on nostalgia.
I was glad to discover that Mr. Coburn mostly resists any such patronizing sentimentality.
With its choreographed sentimentality and the promise of emotional sabotage, Are You The One?
Mr. Payne makes it clear that science and sentimentality need not be mutually exclusive.
There are lots of reasons you hear, and no shortage of sentimentality behind them.
I think this, mixed with a sappy sentimentality, gives the work a nostalgic feel.
This sonorous lower register gives voice to her bracing impatience with sentimentality and disingenuousness.
This argument is an appeal more to emotion and sentimentality than to legal reasoning.
His telling is devoid of silliness (even when articulating various barnyard animals) or sentimentality.
Well, luckily I'm from New Zealand, and we have an allergic reaction to sentimentality.
Her bravado is on the verge of barreling into the thickets of saccharine sentimentality.
Human/Dog social structures are RIDDLED with novelty and sentimentality, and ripe for exploiting.
This project challenges the sentimentality and conquest of space, but it's not without romanticism.
His version of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" crackles more than enough to skirt sentimentality.
The Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, and Hollywood at large traffic in this very subject and sentimentality.
But in my state of mind, I had no sentimentality, because I had no memory.
To balance that sentimentality, I found myself wishing the chapter on sex was slightly juicier.
He was a man comfortable with his situation and there was no need for sentimentality.
There's the Radio 2 friendly pristine pop of Yes and the synthpop sentimentality of Release.
As in much of Laurents's work, the tone of "Waltz" wobbles between sentimentality and cynicism.
At this point, you may be wondering if my sentimentality got the better of me.
In a way, Afro's sentimentality was too intense: It froze her into fear and stasis.
"White Bird" is otherwise full of neat coincidences, grown-up clichés, sentimentality and stock portraiture.
This damp sentimentality, so brutally satirized by Jackson, is the guiding principle of Flanagan's series.
It's that sentimentality, that love for clothes, that I try to express with my designs.
Newly out on Blu-ray, "Hana-Bi" alternates brutal violence with no less shocking sentimentality.
The younger women are at each other's throats, though eventually acrimony gives way to sentimentality.
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But Ms. Masciotti's brand of sentimentality has a rough honesty that often transforms the formulaic.
The relationship between Kit and Sunny anchors the novel with an admirable lack of sentimentality.
Do I finally give up on my sentimentality around physical books and buy a Kindle?
Bennani manages to portray this oscillation between developing-world drabness and virtual fantasy without sentimentality.
Mercury is retrograde in Capricorn, encouraging you to be nostalgic, but don't overdo the sentimentality.
And yet Mangold invites this projection, with its suggestion of tenderness, without devolving into sentimentality.
As we started filming, sentimentality got the best of me: Would this be our final update?
Their sentimentality, emotionality, and potential corniness are also — perhaps in the pejorative — in the feminine category.
The senator "doesn't like overt sentimentality," his friend, the former chief of staff Grant Woods, said.
Otherwise, if I say, "I understand," the person will sniff out my sentimentality and my insincerity.
Perhaps best, both shows mix comedy and sentimentality without falling into the trap of feeling cloying.
Some answers are obvious, but for the most part this musical avoids the trap of sentimentality.
But I don't think I'm imbuing "All the Things She Said" with an undeserved sentimentality here.
If Shifa thought it was a mother's sentimentality that kept it that way, well, what else?
Full of kind sentimentality, this comic is classic family drama and a good culinary lesson, too.
Their own attitude, as far as it can be divined, appears to be a credulous sentimentality.
Ms. Backhaus's stories, vivid with the colors of human experience, are a vital defense against sentimentality.
Where ABC's smash hit "The Good Doctor" opts for sentimentality, "The Resident" instead leans toward cynicism.
This loud dispute is necessary for the reconciliation that follows, one that tips over into sentimentality.
There is no "Tears in Heaven" sentimentality here but instead the enormous, crushing physicality of grief.
Ferrante's women are inscrutable, their minds deep and disordered and disinclined to sentimentality, to easy morals.
But recent events have induced sentimentality, and that book makes me more sentimental than any other.
Especially in the prickly relationship of Ani and Eddie, it suppresses sentimentality like a lead apron.
But it's because I'm not cynical that I don't like being pushed around by unearned sentimentality.
After the accident, the portrayal deepens, and delivers substantial emotional dividends without yielding to facile sentimentality.
Here Mr. Droege dips his toe into the pool of sentimentality but quickly draws it back.
In part, of course, that is soccer, and sports generally: unforgiving, relentless, pathologically averse to sentimentality.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Whitaker didn't eschew sentimentality; in fact, he often hid behind it.
But Matt Goolding, founder of a digital marketing collective, says he feels "no sentimentality" about past messages.
Just when the prose teeters on the edge of sentimentality, though, he pulls it back with humor.
And for her surviving mother and sisters, saying Sandra's name is about so much more than sentimentality.
Loving has no patience for sweeping sentimentality or feel-good liberalism, but his storytelling is almost undernourished.
Kondo gives you mental space for sentimentality but does not allow for a lot of actual space.
But romanticism is not always the happiest bedfellow to essay-writing, particularly when it veers into sentimentality.
In the spirit of Andre Kertesz, Mr. Sammallahti's photographs manage to be lyrical without dissolving into sentimentality.
Mr. Brokaw was struck right away by Mr. Arndt's "total lack of sentimentality," he said by telephone.
As an actor, Letts is often cast as bureaucrats and fathers, and, like Coon, he eschews sentimentality.
Returning to sentimentality, extending content, and broadening references, and adding visual richness verges on art as seduction.
The fast pace spares no time for sentimentality and the ending, while satisfying, is not without bloodshed.
Life is finite and, current and ancient impulses towards sentimentality and religiosity aside, that's all it is.
That market is not coming back someday, so there's no reason to preserve their traditions beyond sentimentality.
In an age of desiccated puzzle-stories, "Maniac" puts emotion first, even at the risk of sentimentality.
I wanted earplugs for the soft sections, protection from sentimentality and the dull thudding of chic cliché.
There's warmth and feeling here, particularly in the younger Bell's flashbacks with Chris, and some sentimentality, too.
The third episode finally brings a crisis, addressed with sparse humor and a surprising cargo of sentimentality.
Part of his point, though, is that underneath the sentimentality, fueling it, are darker feelings and desires.
Without a whiff of sentimentality, Messner shows how the violation has systematically eroded Mia's sense of herself.
But he treats it not with sentimentality or exaggeration, but with uncompromising lucidity; hence its, well, bleakness.
By the final monologue, in which Ken Marks plays Fryer's father, Ercel, Mr. Gordon risks even sentimentality.
He barks orders, sings a shanty, indulges in sentimentality and turns his yowling mouth into an abyss.
The comedy comes from the juxtaposition of the outrageous and vulgar physicality with jarring notes of sentimentality.
Sensationalism, self-righteousness, sentimentality — there are plenty of traps lying in wait for playwrights examining gun violence.
What emerges is a story that searchingly inhabits the lives of women without sentimentality or self-pity.
The books keep any possibility of saccharine sentimentality in check by offering up healthy doses of melancholy, too.
Inside Mr Bewkes's office, as well as outside on its balcony, there is no room for syrupy sentimentality.
Part of the film's sentimentality is Baker's ability to generate sympathy for Halley and Moonee, despite their behavior.
The book has a tinge of the confessional, but none of the sentimentality one may associate with memoir.
For all the unabashed sentimentality of their lyrics, they were hard-nosed about their work behind the scenes.
Still, for Quentin, there's a bit of sentimentality to SXSW: it's the event that brought him to Austin.
" Solomon advised, "Resist the flattery of being an 'old friend' or the sentimentality that Chinese hospitality readily evokes.
It is not mere sentimentality to find something amiss in this analysis, however, as some economists have recognised.
She avoids sentimentality the way a runner on the beach zigs to avoid the foamy lips of waves.
"Popular culture relies on keeping sacrosanct this aspect of sentimentality—that 'underneath' we are all alike," she observed.
Tork's sentimentality did come out a bit when we discussed a track he sang for the new album.
Perhaps the lack of sentimentality from the organization following the trade is because Griffin predates almost everyone here.
Moreover, there is a correlation between sentimentality and bad taste—to respond emotionally is to exhibit bad taste.
Suffused with a sentimentality that Wilde himself would have deplored, "The Happy Prince" is narratively mushy and meandering.
Given the brutal subject matter, the opera stays remarkably agile, avoiding sentimentality even as it embraces frank sentiment.
Mr. Murray rendered Billy Strayhorn's ballad "Chelsea Bridge" without any undue sentimentality, checking his tremolo just a bit.
I also liked SMOLDERS next to AIR KISS, and GREW UP ON for the sentimentality of the phrase.
In the sublime slow movement, the pensive Adagietto, Mr. van Zweden did not allow a trace of sentimentality.
You may endorse the artist's terms for this flustering tension, at a risk of tipping sensation into sentimentality.
Nor does it save you from a sentimentality that seems almost willfully impervious to the facts at hand.
The memoir was praised for offering a sympathetic account of race and class without naïveté or excessive sentimentality.
Thank heavens for Bob, whose steady gaze and cool composure are a welcome tonic to the surrounding sentimentality.
James Joyce wrote that sentimentality is "unearned emotion," and The Mountain Between Us is nothing if not sentimental.
The pioneering band walked the line between brusque sentimentality and uplifting hooks, making them emo's first pop emissaries.
John Yau, for example, skillfully made the case for the honesty of the work and its lack of sentimentality.
Plan an entire day for the two of you that hits all the high points — sentimentality, relaxation, and togetherness.
She often painted them out in the open, alone with the birch trees of Worpswede, at liberty, without sentimentality.
The actor's statement is melodramatic and evasive, but hides a nugget of truth amid all the "Poor me" sentimentality.
While this image is undeniably adorable, lingering moments of sentimentality rarely bode well for the Thrones characters in them.
For the audience that stayed faithful, there was surely some sentimentality in this last plunge into "Gotham's" dark recesses.
Their dialogue is full of misunderstandings, bickering, affection and humour, while the comforts of religion and sentimentality are resisted.
There's ways in which the sensible voice can be bracing and refreshing and energizing after a dose of sentimentality.
And in the end, you get an overpriced cookie-cutter dress, all because the industry exploits sentimentality and tradition.
Neel had radical left-wing beliefs and an engaged social conscience, but her portraits deliver neither sermons nor sentimentality.
I don't want to make sentimental work, that's what I hate most — sentimentality is the flip side of cynicism.
In Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus, they gather that the film "lacks dramatic fireworks" and "falls into TV-movie sentimentality." 
Understand that the Yankees are great at selling history but are not exactly in the business of overdoing sentimentality.
Kelly McDonald, 19, redeemed the sentimentality of the cabaret staple "Taylor the Latte Boy," with a humorous lighthearted interpretation.
Every troll has a moral rationale, after all—even shit-posters harassing grieving families believe that they're exposing sentimentality.
The book is a classic, in large part because of how rudely it dealt with baseball's sentimentality about itself.
A nervous child prone to bouts of sentimentality, Christmas felt custom-built to bring on tears, and the Wham!
He also despised sentimentality and championed the new, but not at the risk of forgetting or condemning the classic.
It's a western display of apocalyptic doom, which Al Qadiri has now rerouted back to a Middle Eastern sentimentality.
But an infectious groove and Drake's reliable sentimentality aren't all that's happening here to make it so instantly appealing.
Red appears as an intentional element of the photograph's image, an intervention that adds a layer of quiet sentimentality.
Mr. Wall also delivers moments of uninhibited sentimentality, beauty and transcendence, albeit in unexpected settings like a CrossFit gym.
A road movie of sorts, it steers clear of melodrama or sentimentality, but it also never risks hitting anything.
At its worst the poem gives in to a sentimentality that is even more annoyingly literary for pretending otherwise.
The show's empathy and sentimentality stands out in an increasingly bitter and divisive era — so get those tissues ready.
We have no soggy sentimentality about those days: we recount Gary's violence precisely to cure anyone of false nostalgia.
But in "The Fever," they are infused with a humble physical — and literary — poetry that scrapes away synthetic sentimentality.
You may feel that — as in so many other peak-TV series — "nuance" brings with it an unwelcome sentimentality.
Tellingly, it loses steam when sentimentality creeps in, and eventually concludes with an earnest singalong of a Yule classic.
The religiose sentimentality and painful growl, like a halibut with strep throat, have patched a lot of plot holes.
A lethal combination of Hollywood sentimentality, Victorian romanticism and bridal-magazine kitsch has placed an impossible burden on love.
I fell in love with Artemis — her lack of sentimentality, her plea to Zeus to never have to marry.
Lonergan sidesteps sentimentality simply by treating characters with respect, as human beings with many dimensions, some of them contradictory.
Rather than adhering to any foreign-policy realism, the Kremlin seems to have adopted a policy of Great Power sentimentality.
The solipsism inherent to the book's structure is more than a little grating, and Foer's unabashed sentimentality doesn't always land.
There are even moments in the Elijah romance that border on glossy romantic-comedy sentimentality, but maybe that's on purpose.
Even though the film is ultimately about letting go of sentimentality, I wanted the images to have a sentimental quality.
Sentimentality feels okay when a book is about motherhood, and Heroes reads like a writer finding his subject at last.
Not all that takes place in "Daphne's Dive" strikes me as entirely credible — or free of a sprinkling of sentimentality.
I was reading an interview around Squid and the Whale where you talked about not having sentimentality in that film.
Yet the Assembly still has its own particular flavor, an unabashed and boldly unhip sincerity that sometimes swings into sentimentality.
But she may have been the first to harness the anger in that particular energy without sentimentality or condescending cuteness.
Playing both ends of the scale like that is a distinctive trick Ms. Majok uses to release emotion without sentimentality.
" He never left behind completely the romantic sentimentality of early piano pieces like "Clair de Lune" and the "Deux Arabesques.
But the show's overreliance on sentimentality and the thinness of some of the characters are distinct weaknesses of Davies's approach.
" The general — cynical, crafty, bureaucratic, incapable of emotion — replies: "You've spoiled the keenness of your mind by wallowing in sentimentality.
"This Land" is both anthem, worthy of a grand cause (celebrating without sentimentality this gorgeous place we inhabit), and prayer.
Maggie's closing monologue, which essentially summed up the entire story to this point, reflected the show's weakness for bludgeoning sentimentality.
" It's the cold eye that beholds, without sentimentality or fear, "Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
The film then totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn't even play if it were made to seem more earned.
Decades later, Fred Terna evades sentimentality — the dead have no agency, no claim to the realm inhabited by the living.
While conventional in form, it's uproariously funny, if naturally streaked with sadness (and at times, a pinch or two of sentimentality).
Paris Jackson already has a slew of enviable ink, but her latest addition adds a dash of sentimentality to the mix.
The stories have a tinge of sentimentality that sometimes shades into something more cloying, but Mr. Evers knows his characters well.
As a 2000s kid, I admittedly felt a twinge of sentimentality watching digital cameras and flip-phones flourish in the pilot.
In real life, we are told, sentimentality will get you nowhere; the world serves us bitter proof of this every hour.
When Marshmello and countless other EDM producers capture such sentimentality in crystalline songform, it's impossible to mistake it for anything else.
Such moments are tinged with sentimentality, as if they are full-hearted outtakes from the lovable ragtag universe of season one.
Pufahl's voice is strikingly solid, timeworn but not nostalgic, as she unravels a cinematic story that avoids genre clichés or sentimentality.
The makeup artist brings another bout of sentimentality to the trip as she also did Amal's makeup for the couple's wedding.
State Dish Towel, $20, available at Uncommon GoodsAdd some sentimentality to their kitchen with a dish towel of their home state.
When he was asked if he thought Girardi might have given him a start out of sentimentality, he shook his head.
"Despite my gentle reminders that love is a deadly poison , you remain stubbornly prone to sentimentality and clinginess," she tells him.
Vijay probes grand themes—tribalism, despotism, betrayal, death, resurrection—in exquisite but unflowery prose, and with sincere sentiment but little sentimentality.
With all the blossoms and babies, it's a seasonally appropriate show, but there's just enough hallucinatory weirdness to offset any sentimentality.
"Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business," David Carey, the president of Hearst Magazines, said in an interview.
High point: The gospel choir swelling on the chorus of "Every Breath You Take," which gave overt sentimentality a good name.
The game's understanding of itself is straightjacketed by superstition and macho sentimentality; it communicates exclusively in jargon and cliche and acronym.
I'm looking for something that goes beyond the idea that books make us more empathetic and resists simplification, nostalgia and sentimentality.
"My Misspent Youth" considered debt, "Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House" real estate and "The Unspeakable" sentimentality.
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
The monologue erred on the side of sentimentality, but Mr. Pisoni underplayed it, and his hands moved with an eloquent grace.
I've long tried to reconcile my sentimentality for my childhood soundtrack with my reluctance to embrace the woman who created it.
I mean, of course, Bill Murray, a comedy star with a peerless gift for leavening snark with a pinch of sentimentality.
Mukherjee has said that the "immigrant/diaspora novel" has been done to death, and is now full of clichés and sentimentality.
But as my father and my grandfather and pretty much any engineer would tell you, sentimentality is the enemy of progress.
But all is forgiven in a riot of tearful Hallmark sentimentality that Mr. Kim has the good sense to gently pillory.
You don't need to join me in my nostalgia trip, my dad-life sentimentality, but you ought to cook that chicken.
Do you look forward to the opportunity to express your love — or do you despise the forced sentimentality of the holiday?
The poetic material isn't overdone or precious; like Rilke's poetry, it skirts the edge of sentimentality without quite indulging in it.
"Sentimentality and nostalgia are the tripwires that must be carefully avoided when making art which employs the culture of things," Dion says.
Yet it is also deeply invested in coziness, and familial warmth and love and generosity, to the point of self-parodying sentimentality.
Here's hoping that, inevitable battles and deeply haunting Pokédex descriptions aside, Pokémon Sun/Moon keeps that unabashed tenderness and sentimentality going throughout.
Unlike a lot of "all-ages" family movies, it doesn't rely on cheap sentimentality, sugar-high freneticism, or sarcastic pop-culture gags.
A number of people were reportedly still holding onto their Note 7s in January, despite the recall, either for convenience or sentimentality.
With all their flourishes of sentimentality and sexiness, these shows tend to forget what these affairs really are examples of: statutory rape.
In some ways these new narratives cannot help but counter parts of the "bad mom" frameworks with their own forms of sentimentality.
His struggle to match his vocal abilities to his sentimentality is in part endearing and honest, and in part a frustrating wreckage.
Her writing was good for three main reasons: a lack of sentimentality, a lack of self-pity, and a sense of humor.
Personally, I don't get the sentimentality about the prospect of a woman president — Margaret Thatcher was a woman too, and so what?
There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down.
But the sentimentality only goes so far, because these blades-on-wheels have also been slicing up something other than grass: hedgehogs.
There's a drive within most of us to romanticize the rural, to imbue the pastoral with an underserved and ultimately damaging sentimentality.
It had a little bit of You Can't Do That on Television, and a little bit of the schmaltzy sentimentality of Degrassi.
Juliette Dumas's large-scale paintings of whales' flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.
Sentimentality for that fact, mixed with time, has created the mythology that he was only one decent punch away from the title.
The EP has equal parts clunky DFA style basslines, Adrian Utley-during-peak-Portishead-level-of-restraint guitars, and Drake-adjacent sentimentality.
The humanitarian groups pressed the government to delay the Jungle's shutdown, but there was little sentimentality among its residents over its demise.
A few too many, though, fall into Brutalist sentimentality, with graffiti-strewn concrete and ominous cloudy skies that edge into ruin porn.
Ms. Cleary and Mr. Medlyn imagine a meeting of these opposites of sweetness and subversion to wonder if sentimentality can become transgressive.
Disney and Pixar's newest movie Onward is here to charm us with its comedy... and probably make us cry with its sentimentality.
Brandi Twilley's paintings of her childhood bedroom before it was destroyed by a fire are devoid of sentimentality, nostalgia, and even sympathy.
Or maybe, a little more established in my life and career, I feel less sentimentality toward the punishing climate of my childhood.
Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life.
That unlikely pairing becomes a source of both laughs and sentimentality, Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times.
As in his first novel, "The Yellow Birds," Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality.
But a fine cast (including Bobby Cannavale as Laura's feckless ex-husband) can't compensate for the screenplay's superficial sentimentality and lazy slapstick.
It gestures in their direction and then changes the subject, and settles into a soft cushion of masculine sentimentality at the end.
In these, Freud is certainly examining the passage of time and its effect on his physical appearance — but without lapsing into sentimentality.
The live action and documentary candidates tackle painful real-world material with compassion, courage and imagination (though sometimes also with conventional sentimentality).
Unlike other films in its genre, The Florida Project manages to be driven by empathy without ever lapsing into sentimentality or romanticization.
Among a coterie of tiresome single women and their Bechdel Test-failing dialogue, Mabel stood out for her feisty lack of sentimentality.
In eighth grade, my chorus sang "Sunrise, Sunset," while our parents sobbed and we middle-schoolers rolled our eyes at its sentimentality.
Sentimentality is embarrassing for both of us, and to be honest, I'm not sure either of us could deal with the awkwardness.
But others were not so impressed, including The Guardian's Jonathan Jones, who provided the above quote about sentimentality in an inevitable hot take.
He softens Lamb and Tommie with tears, safe hugs and averted looks and, once they land in the countryside, mires them in sentimentality.
Let's be clear about water signs' penchant for sentimentality — it isn't always a bad thing and it doesn't pertain exclusively to their exes.
Sehgal speaks clearly and definitively, strong with logic and rigor, a quintessential business executive but with a soft-spot for play and sentimentality.
But sentimentality, preachiness, and a wearying obviousness get in the way of what should just be a close emotional portrait of his experience.
As The Atlantic cited in 223.18, many gifts fall flat because the giver focused too much on sentimentality and not enough on practicality.
She fetishized objects to an intense degree; it was difficult to tell why she ascribed so much sentimentality to these seemingly unimportant items.
All Morisot's treatments of mothers and children, and of children alone, are affectionate enough, but without so much as a whisper of sentimentality.
Likewise, the drawing "Créatures venues de l'espace n° 2" (1948) resonates with loose visual intelligence and discharges a far-out sentiment without sentimentality.
But championships in boxing are meant to inform the public of the sport's best; they are based on current fighting merit, not sentimentality.
You'd assume that "Last Christmas" would find itself unwittingly marinating in the same sentimentality that makes most festive music so unpalatable and saccharine.
It was the funniest, most perfect bit of casting I could imagine: all of Lucy's cherubic blond dippiness, all of Andy's dim sentimentality.
For all of the sentimentality, the continued use of both "iTunes" and "Apple Music" has likely caused some level of confusion among consumers.
Pinborough writes these women with a good ear, a lack of sentimentality and a sharp sense of how difficult intergenerational communication can be.
Rather, it's the audacity of taking a stock sentimental situation, applying a sentimental score, then adding a sound of potentially greater sentimentality. Loons!
"The Victorian era is generally known for its exaggerated sentimentality and elaborate rules governing social behavior; hairwork folds beautifully into both," Reierson says.
Yet the freshness that's so appealing in Act 1 dissipates in the bloated second act, which succumbs to sentimentality and broad-stroke cliché.
As a director, Bekmambetov appears unfamiliar with the concept or experience of emotions, and can't manage to drum up a modicum of sentimentality.
The big stuff and the small stuff have to stand somehow in relation to each other; Dubus must navigate between melodrama and sentimentality.
"I think people maybe go into this movie because of sentimentality or even confirmation bias, at either end political spectrum," Mr. Kujawski said.
Watson worked for the Falcons as a ball boy in high school, but he showed no sentimentality as he destroyed his hometown team.
In 2019, if you carry one on your keys, it's a fashion statement conveying nostalgia and sentimentality: a Hawaiian shirt of key chains.
The potent mix of wistful nostalgia, unvarnished sentimentality and daydreamy optimism articulated the hopes and anxieties of war-weary soldiers and citizens alike.
As a whole, this exhibition has a sweet sentimentality that defies presumed notions of what global Conceptual art should look like or address.
While overflowing with sentimentality, Life is Strange 2 also mostly avoids the ham-fisted cheesiness that undercut the previous game's more emotional moments.
" Samokhvalov was a more lyrical artist than Deineka, Mr. Mikhailovsky added: "Very Russian and we see this lyricism and sentimentality in this portrait.
And although the plot, centered on violent youth gangs in depressed areas, is fairly predictable, it's presented with jarring realism and zero sentimentality.
"There's a sentimentality about this place, that they've had so many amazing experiences, and the staff are part of the family," says the president.
Euro 2016 may not yet be cold in its grave, but the most moneyed top flight on the planet cares not for such sentimentality.
Gifted, a return to modest-budget Hallmark-shop sentimentality for the filmmaker, is a custody battle melodrama that's as schmaltzy as all get out.
Both films are aggressively nostalgic for a bygone era, but Hearts in Atlantis has far less to say and skews more toward maudlin sentimentality.
For all the shock value of the trippy movie, Antibirth's most subversive move is to knock pregnancy off its pedestal of sentimentality and romanticism.
Some loyalists stuck to their Note 7s even after the recall and an update that essentially bricked the device, whether for convenience or sentimentality.
The slow movement unfolded at a steady, almost insistent clip with no trace of sentimentality, yet nice bloom and lyricism in the melodic lines.
The little guy's newest video is set to Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" and its sentimentality will make you and your mom swoon.
But come November, when the temperature drops and prevailing culture tells us to emphasize love in all its forms, we become susceptible to sentimentality.
But while this adaptation superficially goes out of its way to avoid being overtly political, its patriotic tenor is as unmistakable as its sentimentality.
Merkel, demonstrating rare sentimentality but also the pragmatic streak that runs through her politics, admitted last year it was tough to see Obama go.
Everything about it positively drips with unabashed sentimentality, and, every so often, it's good to be reminded of the sheer potency of the sentimental.
Mr. Rapp's sentimentality bursts out of the dark, dank closet with his latest effort, "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois," at Atlantic Stage 2.
Then, returning to his desk, he gave a seemingly extemporaneous monologue, veering from gallows humor to sentimentality, full of awkward pauses and deep breaths.
He's fond of the gruff and curmudgeonly Bauer, yet sentimentality is scarce while the double-crossings are surprising and the dry humor is welcome.
At the time Roland Barthes accused the exhibit of employing sentimentality to essentialize humanity, ignoring the historical alienation and injustices encountered by some communities.
The flaws are artistic: the pretentiousness, sentimentality, inscrutability and unintentional or lazy comedy that can be found in dance and film of any kind.
And Mr. Huang offered a stellar performance of the Saint-Saëns, giving full vent to its big tunes without letting sweetness sour into sentimentality.
This contradiction (to revert to Marxist vocabulary) is precisely what energizes the film and rescues it from the twin dangers of tedium and sentimentality.
Both books share a bracing lack of sentimentality, as well as a carefully wrought humanity; both will make you want to change the world.
"Bosch" doesn't hype up the conflict and potential sentimentality, though (as the Fox series "The Rookie" does with a similar story line this season).
Orstavik's mastery of perspective and clean, crackling sentences prevent sentimentality or sensationalism from trailing this story of a woman and her accidentally untended child.
Houellebecq, whose work is saturated with brutality, resentment and sentimentality, understood what it meant to be an incel long before the term became common.
The ads: With a heavy dose of nostalgia mixed with sentimentality, the 80-plus commercials during TV's biggest advertising day generally avoided divisive issues.
And because the darkness is so prevalent, Chbosky seems anxious to amp up the sentimentality, too, to make sure that this is what triumphs.
The son and grandson of admirals, Mr. McCain "doesn't like overt sentimentality," as his friend the former chief of staff Grant Woods put it.
In fact, over the holiday season, I found myself with time on my hands and that same sort of sentimentality creeping up on me.
In keeping with the sentimentality of the text, a soft haze issues from a machine in the wings, and there's a lot of hugging.
Before Drake's Instagram-worthy lyrics were considered a punchline, before he was seen as hip-hop's resident sentimentalist, his relatability and sentimentality were innovations.
"Influence is erotic," Smee writes of Bacon's effect on Freud, arguing that he stimulated the ruthless purging of sentimentality that characterizes Freud's mature style.
With her no-nonsense, amusing take on human nature and her lack of sentimentality, O'Connor influences Gautreaux as much as the dreamy genius Dickey.
The stark building materials cut against the potential sentimentality of the imagery, or at least that's what we thought, and we liked that too.
That was the beautiful thing about Daria––there was a lot of sentimentality written into the characters, but it wasn't just one generation of thought.
Hyperbole, glowing press, and sentimentality are just brief stops on the way to his destination and though appreciated they are unnecessary for the time being.
Beautiful Boy as a whole may feel too afterschool-special to some, although it's not as though the Academy has ever shied away from sentimentality.
It's more like a gear shift—a fusion of sentimentality and sonic torque that's transformed electronic music from a niche genre to a global phenomenon.
Big on sentimentality, Cancers love how this trend recalls the halcyon days of picking out preteen-appropriate unmentionables at Limited Too with their mall friends.
The bitter, gruesome finale even aired three days before Christmas, a network-sponsored potshot at American sentimentality and consumerism that should go down as legend.
She seemed to recognize from the start that his greatest pitfall as a poet would not be "opacity," as Ritvo says he feared, but sentimentality.
The sentimentality never gets overpowering, thanks to a cast that includes Toby Jones as an overextended banker and Shabana Azmi as an overbearing Pakistani matriarch.
But the existentialism and sentimentality of LCD Soundsystem's brand of dance was long ago rendered moot by the more immediate reward of the bass drop.
The nuances of atmospheric light are impressive: Twilley wants to see what she once inhabited with a detachment that denies sentimentality, nostalgia, and even sympathy.
To record it, Ms. Womack, 51, decamped to Houston with a select group of Nashville players and reimagined country sentimentality in a bracing, unencumbered fashion.
There is no legacy of slavery or Jim Crow, and therefore an aura of innocence can be maintained amid the dysfunction and sentimentality and clannishness.
"I hope if I come here with my own son one day, I can show him the clock," he said, smiling at his sudden sentimentality.
The final product here leaves plenty to lament, from unconvincing approximations of wintry landscapes to a bumpy narrative that struggles to balance danger and sentimentality.
She exuded bone-deep affection and respect for vaudeville stylings, in which impeccably controlled artifice became a conduit for sentimentality as well as rowdy humor.
So I'm going to risk sentimentality here and say that there were places on the internet about 10 years ago that were exciting for me.
We have a horrible weakness for triumphalist sentimentality and EDM power ballads that diagnose our perceived generational maladies ("Last Day Alive," also the whole record).
But a melting Fanny Brice gives "Funny Girl" a soft center, and the production as a whole acquires a soggy sentimentality that reveals the show's age.
This shows us that the absence of lust can coexist with intensive sentimentality and strong social bonds, as well as with stable marriages and continued procreation.
We've seen recently, in last testaments, the multiform ways to cope: the sentimentality of Oliver Sacks in Gratitude, the trademark recalcitrance of Christopher Hitchens in Mortality.
As in The Green Mile, Frank Darabont's other adaptation of a King work set in a prison, The Shawshank Redemption sometimes leans too hard into sentimentality.
According to McKnight, a right tilt shows sentimentality, a left slant suggests "me-oriented" traits and no slant at all reveals that pragmatism and logic dictates.
And the people on the right side of those billions of dollars, particularly in NCAA executive suites, are more than happy to profit from our sentimentality.
The breaking of conventions (addressing the camera, graphic sexual references, sleeping with a priest) was tediously conventional; the sentimentality, particularly about a pet hamster, was cloying….
But the highly constructed sentimentality of the docusoap does not mesh with genuine trauma, and the robbery was clearly genuinely traumatic to Kim and her family.
So compassion for elephants or rhinos or gorillas is not soggy sentimentality, but a practical recognition of shared interests among two-legged and four-legged animals.
The beauty of I See You is that they're able to flit between the spectral sentimentality of their past records and something a little more human.
Emerging from this mess—a hodgepodge of myth, twentieth-century American propaganda, and sentimentality about the power of love—comes Wonder Woman to save the world.
Eric Clapton: Happy Xmas (Brushbranch/Surfdog, 2018) Unexpectedly, Clapton's minimalist blues mesh coherently with classic Christmas pop, perhaps because two separate traditions of sentimentality are colliding.
Speedie's British accent was laughable, JT's biography was so lurid as to verge on the preposterous, and his writing combined pornographic content with greeting-card sentimentality.
They will learn to trust each other, though not in a hokey way; Ms. Jiles is much too good to let her book sink into sentimentality.
The sentimentality began back in the summer of 2015, when Republican presidential hopefuls, including Trump, embraced the term "radical Islamic terrorism" — while President Barack Obama refused.
It's left to Mr. Mortensen, who can make menace feel like vulnerability — and turn vulnerability into a confession — to keep the movie from slipping into sentimentality.
Any simple-minded sentimentality about immigrants all being in the same boat is entirely absent from "Yellow Negroes" where everybody is potentially somebody else to exploit.
Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee.
Mostly, the show is exactly what it sounds like: a hospital melodrama, with whiz-bang medical science, a dash of intra-staff romance and shameless sentimentality.
Over the course of fifteen albums and countless singles and compilation appearances, Francis dedicated his working life to exploring the possibilities of earnestness, sincerity, and sentimentality.
Mr. Lutken's Guthrie avoids aw-shucks sentimentality; Mr. Teirstein demonstrates remarkable instrumental versatility; and the sparkling Ms. Loomis mugs winningly as she takes a fiddle solo.
Here we've been allowing you and the play in which you appear to keep pushing our emotional buttons as if we were programmed robots of sentimentality.
I hate a certain New York sentimentality that celebrates the past for its own musty sake, but the disappearance of the independent bookshop has been tough.
But Murugan, who tended his family's goats until he was in his 20s, writes about animal life (and death, lust, resentment) without a whiff of sentimentality.
Anderer cites this judgment but isn't fazed by it: He shrugs off the charge of sentimentality, and continues to treat the director's films as philosophically profound.
It can feel facile, this ostensible shortcut to empathy, and requires a certain authority to prevent the whole enterprise from tipping into implausibility or soppy sentimentality.
And when viewed without sentimentality about the primacy of the US and its values, the chaos machines of American social media become a much harder sell.
But then he gave into cliché sentimentality when a screen dropped down and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting scrolled on it.
Relationships unfold with a bright, glossy and antiseptic sentimentality in Park Hyun-gene's "Like for Likes," which brings abundant social media usage to shopworn rom-com contrivances.
Despite This Is Us' habit of going for schlocky over-the-top sentimentality over actual emotional storytelling, the beginning of Zoe's backstory comes with the appropriate weight.
Modern capitalism, the authors suggest, selects for assertiveness, for a lack of sentimentality in business and comfort in sacking underlings, and for showy displays of economic strength.
Beyond that, I was to avoid any semblance of sentimentality or nostalgia, and look at this as though the score itself was a character in the film.
In Fury, Salman Rushdie is unable to detach himself from the sexual act he's writing about and, consequently, the prose descends into an uncommon form of sentimentality.
But most movingly, we check in with Sandor Clegane, whose uncharacteristic sentimentality—"I don't like you, but you're not bad"—is dangerously close to founding a fellowship.
Hugs were a unit of currency on "Full House," and "Fuller House" tries for that as well, with the fifth episode coming closest to earning its sentimentality.
The low-key, observational style of the humor in "Better Things" may leave you restless, and there are moments when the show veers into cuteness or sentimentality.
Too easily taken for granted, its accomplishment is its ability to gaze steadily with warmth but minimal sentimentality at the world through unjaded 14-year-old eyes.
If Ms. Jelinek's acerbic play has a whiff of Vienna's storied bitterness and cynicism, Mr. Amir shows us the opposite side of the coin: sentimentality and schlock.
The Romanian-born baritone Sebastian Catana plays Rigoletto as a dry, lunky doofus, yet finds touching ways to play up the paternal sentimentality that ultimately undoes him.
It shows in the hard edges of her can-do personality, on guard against unwonted sentimentality and unneeded calories, sidestepping leery co-workers with a breezy smile.
Ferrante is credited as a writer on the series, and like her novels, the adaptation has a sharp sense of time and place without nostalgia or sentimentality.
As adults, they share that peculiar mix of awkwardness, giddiness, and sentimentality that comes from falling back into old rhythms with strangers you used to know intimately.
Often, such a setup becomes an occasion for blaring sentimentality, for witty final curtain lines and defiant bravery that make all-conquering mortality look anything but proud.
Foster doesn't condescend to us with Tin Pan Alley cheapness or sentimentality; she plays to what's best in her characters and, therefore, what's best in the world.
She does this by tackling themes that anyone can relate to, but her approach, with its rigorous exclusion of sentimentality, has something to do with it, too.
The script requires her to be funny, brave, and fragile, sometimes all at once, and she pulls it all off without ever descending into kid-sidekick sentimentality.
Even when I ask him why, of all the songs in the world about isolation and melancholy, his have resonated with hundreds of people, he refuses himself sentimentality.
Among its other virtues, "Key Change" resists sentimentality, although there are some touching passages when the women speak of the joy that comes from just seeing a magpie.
The film premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where we found it to be a beautiful film, filled with del Toro's own unique sentimentality.
The biggest paradox, for me, is how you can have, on one hand, the sentimentality that is kind of juxtaposed with this iconoclasm and this irreverence towards icons.
Once out of the asylum, Anna lived with a variety of people who wanted a touch of Russian nobility in their lives, whether motivated by sentimentality or profit.
The over-the-top sentimentality, the emotionally manipulative plot twists, the obviously melancholic music — the whole thing felt pretty cheesy, a family-friendly sitcom of soap-opera proportions.
Reynolds avoids allowing his plot to devolve into either sentimentality or melodrama by refusing to outline a broader happy ending for this tale and the characters in it.
No One Can Pronounce My Name has similar concerns and Satyal's point of view remains warm-hearted, though leavened with enough humor that it never slips into sentimentality.
Though it deftly uses 21st-century technology, Mr. Landsman's production is also steeped in the harsh sentimentality associated with literature from the early days of this country's industrialization.
Initially, silliness balances sentimentality; later in the season, when the series turns somber to confront its body count, there is nothing maudlin in its picture of self-reckoning.
Mr. Landis's sensibility, which combines sitcom jokiness with mumblecore sentimentality, tends to be more grating than amusing in "Me Him Her," though scattered moments will make you laugh.
From communist academics and charming mobsters, to brash movie execs and working-class stiffs, the film oscillates wildly between comedy and melodrama, Borscht Belt humor, and gentle sentimentality.
It is in that resolution where we find the source of the disparagement of holiday films, and the source of their proclivity towards awfulness: their relationship to sentimentality.
Much of Disney's streaming strategy is predicated on stirring up sentimentality around movies and shows that date back to the founding of the company nearly 100 years ago.
The highly accomplished Julia Margaret Cameron produced many great portraits of prominent Victorian intellectuals, yet she can often slip into treacly sentimentality — particularly when she turned to children.
It doesn't help that Tennison's crime-solving instincts are consistently infallible — a trap Ms. La Plante avoided — and that some late, violent events push the story into sentimentality.
Maybe because Dederer never tries to sweeten her suffering with sentimentality, it feels less onerous to ride sidesaddle on her journey through the barren flats of holy matrimony.
Favreau and Filoni slow it down, make it look good, take out some of the sentimentality, give it some sophistication and let you feel smart for enjoying it.
"There is some sentimentality about seeing a collection that was so tightly together and in four different houses split apart," David Rockefeller Jr. said in a telephone interview.
Perhaps foremost, "The Old Man" is notable -- beyond the sentimentality associated with Redford's original announcement -- for the audacity of building a movie around a septuagenarian criminal at all.
In the book, gender stereotypes are upended: Raif comes off as vulnerable and emotional, while Maria exudes independence and a lack of sentimentality for matters of the heart.
With its high sentimentality quotient and wisecracking briskness, it came across as an honorable, gender-tweaking variation on Neil Simon's classic cash-cow comedies of urban Jewish anxiety.
Pharmacy's giant fist-pumping climaxes, sharing space with breathily sensual admissions of vulnerability, produced a nauseating confluence, as two distinct forms of sentimentality irritated and inflamed each other.
But sentimentality is not tolerated when it comes to using a pig for tacos, so ask the carnitero to chop it very well so that it's easier to eat.
Our narrator examines her surroundings — the eccentric patients and doctors, the absurd daily activities, the Kafkaesque system — with a blunt and biting wit that leaves little room for sentimentality.
Or maybe it's Denver, singing that ode to his wife, the sweetness of his voice used not quite for irony or for pure sentimentality, but somehow both at once.
But where The Pioneer Woman is drenched with hokey sentimentality for old-fashioned life on the farm, Girl Meets Farm boasts a winky playfulness that I find incredibly captivating.
"Trolls believe that nothing should be taken seriously, and therefore regard public displays of sentimentality, political conviction, and/or ideological rigidity as a call to trolling arms," she writes.
There's an internal rhythm to the prose which is rarely stymied by sentimentality or preciousness, and yet the deep well of emotion just below the surface is palpable throughout.
The book questions its protagonist's moderate and complacent middle-class liberalism and mocks the elite's naïveté, but both compare favorably against the crude sentimentality of the easily duped masses.
But if Spinoza is the new golden boy of this tricky form, then sentimentality can never define it, because it will have something absurdly complex at its thematic core.
Ms. Kaczmarek, known for her role on the TV series "Malcolm in the Middle," gives an incisive performance, all the more moving because it is scrubbed free of sentimentality.
Finally, there was cloying sentimentality — presumably the big Thanksgiving dinner we saw took place in the same dewy spirit world the "Lost" folks reunited in a few years back.
With its deep bench of classic Disney content, the company is hoping to tap into fans' sentimentality around shows and movies that they may have watched throughout their childhood.
The deadpan style of the acting functions as a vaccine against sentimentality, but there is no doubting the sincerity of this movie's motives or the effectiveness of its methods.
The way they are portrayed edges close to sentimentality, but the honest sympathy the film extends them is the element that gives the wider tableau its clarity and force.
Alejandro also possesses nearly superhuman — if not outright supernatural — survival skills, and "Day of the Sodaldo," for all its lean macho bluster, flirts with silliness as well as sentimentality.
What he doesn't realize is that Shiv, stung by the series of betrayals in London last episode, is already working stealthily to weaponize whatever sentimentality remains in her father.
On this new song, he extracts the sentimentality of quiet-storm R&B and sets it to an uplifting bop, like being swaddled by a firm gust of wind.
The Clio commercial entered this terrain and, contra the advertising-as-arms-race metaphor, broke through using one of the oldest pieces of emotional weaponry there is: maudlin sentimentality.
Syfy provided only two episodes for review, so it remains to be seen how the show will change up the fatalism and sentimentality (and finality) of the comics' ending.
And of course, Dickens being Dickens — and as such unable to resist throwing in a pathetic child at any opportunity — there's the touch of sentimentality in Tiny Tim's feeble cheer.
That sentimentality was a poor fit for dads in the 250s, and from the beginning, people joked about how Father's Day would be more of a burden than a treat.
It might feel good to give to his alma mater (I donate to the shelter where I got my cat), but $1.8 billion is too much to pay for sentimentality.
The film generally manages to better toe the line between the kind of overly broad sentimentality required of all biopics and the specificity of John's story as a gay man.
Instead, it heightens the screenplay's sentimentality, tidy psychologizing and life-affirming messages by thickening their syrup and corn quotients in ways presumably deemed palatable to theatergoing children and their parents.
One of the novel's victories is that Adiga's understanding of these (not so subtle) dynamics, while unflinching, manages to circumvent the Scylla of sentimentality and the Charybdis of political correctness.
By contrast, the soft focus and pastel colors of Erizku's photographs represent Beyoncé's skin with a lush and inviting sensuality while also evoking the sentimentality appropriate for a pregnancy announcement.
But its unexpected setting, images, set pieces, and even language balance out the sentimentality with a strangely raw and cinematically adventurous aesthetic that's uncommon for a film of its sort.
These were boom times for sentimentality in rock, years brimming with Keanes, Frays, and Muses and the disarming well of feelings that issue out from rock radio at the time.
So get some candles lit, put on your lucky underwear, stuff some gum under your pillow for when you wake up tomorrow morning, and enjoy the sweet sounds of sentimentality.
But the show offsets Pollan's sentimentality with dynamic and frankly gorgeous vignettes of people hunting, cooking, and eating—and not simply for the pleasure of sitting around a glowing hearth.
This is because Jerry Jones is a doofus, but also because Manziel fits into the NFL's cockeyed sentimentality in a way that Tunsil—and no black player, really—never would.
And for sure, the kitschy signs at Frankie's, which include a 22-foot long wiener reading "WORLD FAMOUS HOT DOGS" on top of the building play into this odd sentimentality.
One day, when I was in a particularly maudlin mental space, I was overcome by a massive wave of sentimentality upon seeing the can, and it all clicked for me.
Or rather, he lacks confidence that the audience will warm to such a man, and so he pipes in a layer of sentimentality that is effective without being fully convincing.
It delivers packaged sentimentality with a polish that helps make up for its predictability, and it has the great advantage of starring Michael Cudlitz and Mary McCormack as the parents.
Likely this has to do with the preference of Isabella Rossellini — who conceived, co-directed and performs this piece about animals' thoughts and communications — for surreal humor over cloying sentimentality.
Even Mr. Jeunet's inventive, cinema-infatuated mise-en-scène is steeped in a sort of "so it goes" (or "ça va") drollery, sentimentality plus cynicism being the quintessential French equation.
And in the hands of director Alma Har'el (whose previous directorial work has largely been in documentary), is far too knowing and lived-in to fall into the sentimentality trap.
For this Canadian-born production, written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein and directed by Christopher Ashley, is as honorable in its intentions as it is forthright in its sentimentality.
George Stevens's greatness as a filmmaker is in part attributable to his ability to clear sentimentality out of the way and focus on the emotional realism of his characters' lives.
The instinct to distance oneself from emotions with irony is not always useful or constructive, and to engage with emotions — to practice empathy — is not always to practice banal sentimentality.
But sentimentality can be cathartic, and if you're in the right mood — if you're down for a good old-fashioned corny romance — then The Mountain Between Us is perfectly cathartic.
What's disappointing is that our sentimentality for the era and film creates a collective amnesia about what actually happens in the movie, which is misguidedly hailed as subversive feminist cinema.
Remove sentimentality completely from the equation, though, and the Spurs could attach Parker's expiring contract to a future first-round pick and dump him on (you guessed it!) the Brooklyn Nets.
The leading players here — notably Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford — pick up on the trademark Lauper mix of sentimentality and eccentricity, but each makes it his or her own.
But for every grumbling naysayer turned off by Alex's overt displays of heart-on-sleeve sentimentality, there is a small army of Slang faithful with Alex's lyrics inked on their bodies.
"While I see the glamour in weddings, I also see the sentimentality and I am looking to celebrate the affection and love between the two people in a couple," says Lane.
His tremendous sentimentality is a major issue, bogging down his efforts at realism in flag-waving, tear-jerking scenes that try to make every heartfelt emotion land with mortar-fire force.
But what Roiland and Harmon are doing is asserting the value of sentimentality, cloaked in Lovecraftian postmodernism and delivered by one of the most sardonic characters in the history of television.
Songs like "Under the Pressure" are awash with layers—atmospheric interludes, soaring synth lines, drum machines—that bring in an amorphous, shimmering beauty and help evade the corniness of 80s sentimentality.
New research* into the unwrapping of presents by two professors at the Yale School of Management and one at the University of Miami bravely applies rigour where sentimentality has long ruled.
For liberal and moderate American Jews -- the 71% who voted against Trump -- a combination of entrenched sentimentality and practical fear of civil war will stop them from endorsing a binational state.
By happy music, I don't mean officially inspirational pop of the Disney variety, with its commercialized sentimentality and cheer, but ebullient performances by musicians who convey the pleasure of playing together.
In the context of Hollywood history, Mr. Parker is less a revolutionary than a revisionist, adapting old strategies to new purposes, inflecting familiar tropes of violence and sentimentality with fresh meanings.
I knew I was working on a synth pop record of sorts, although as I was writing it I was actively avoiding the sentimentality that often is packaged into that genre.
It was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, its belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness.
Mr. Salles, who seems broadly sympathetic to the traditions of the international left (his brother is Walter Salles, director of "The Motorcycle Diaries"), nonetheless disdains the easy sentimentality of lost causes.
But that sweetness, verging on sentimentality, is also Housman's limitation: the lads and lasses slumbering under the grass, never growing old or sick or worrying about how to find a job.
Wasson is sympathetic to Polanski's point of view for many reasons, tarring Towne for everything from drug use to sentimentality to relying on an uncredited co-writer, his friend Edward Taylor.
Carl's slow-motion demise contained a sense of warmth, sentimentality and loss that has sometimes gone missing from the show, due in part to its seeming determination to shock and tease.
The result is brisk and breezy, but "there are dangerous shoals of sentimentality" as Marius-Pete finds himself falling for his new family, Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.
Sentiments like these, from Bosley Crowther's review, were common: Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life.
"After looking through many different silhouettes, he selected the perfect 18kt white gold, double halo ring on a single band, because it echoed the sentimentality of their connection," designer Caryn Alpert said.
Clooney may have set out to criticize sentimentality toward the film's era and setting, but he turns out to be as susceptible to the aesthetic allure of the suburbs as anyone else.
Ewing is certainly qualified for the Georgetown job, but part of that qualification owes to the unique sentimentality that's shot through college basketball in general, and programs like this one in particular.
Like several Apatow productions before it, Popstar's third-act shift into sentimentality doesn't always work, especially after a first half that moves so quickly, stacking one joke on top of the next.
Because many old things are valued based on sentimentality, your emotional connection to something is worth a lot — sometimes, it's enough for sellers to know that it's going to a good home.
As the band's career has advanced, Turner has also grown into a stunning ability to express desire and emotion with a turn of phrase that never slides into either sentimentality or cynicism.
Using real experiences shared by the homeless in story workshops, Omotoso — who was also a creator of the South African television series "A Place Called Home" — directs with empathy and without sentimentality.
LOVE's tilted "O," which threatens to fall off the otherwise stable design, implicitly critiqued the often hollow sentimentality associated with the word, metaphorically suggesting unrequited longing and disappointment rather than saccharine affection.
That would be a more profitable line of questioning, because a play like "The Sound Inside," abjuring sentimentality in its very bones, could never be this affecting without touching on something big.
It's easy to see why: Like "The Nightingale," which was set in France during World War II, this novel features a camera-friendly backdrop — this time, Alaska — and a Hollywood-ready sentimentality.
His wife, who manages the John Prine business, said that for all the care that her husband takes to avoid cheap sentimentality in his songs, she has never met anyone more sentimental.
Once he left Starfleet, he had no purpose, and no reason to interact with Raffi since they had no work to do together anymore — Picard was never one for nostalgia and sentimentality.
Their most recent album's funk-laden lead single "You Calling My Name" is actually one of their best to date, but "끝"'s beautiful sentimentality makes it especially hard to topple. 26.
The Bure breakthrough was a bit like the plot of "Christmas Under Wraps": Hallmark had discovered that it had everything it needed—positivity, reassurance, sentimentality, and cozy salesmanship—right there in Garland.
Though it verges on starry-eyed sentimentality in its final scene, most of this production — designed with spot-on period detail by Susan Hilferty and Jason Ardizzone-West — refrains from thematic signposting.
Her physical contact with the pigs is evidence that her involvement is far from clinical, but it never spills over into sentimentality or an anthropomorphic reading of the animals' relationship with her.
Slushii loves kawaii culture (his logo is an adorable anthropomorphic soft drink modeled on a Yu-Gi-Oh card), and here, his production overflows with the cartoonish physics and exaggerated sentimentality of anime.
Luckily, the script and direction are strong enough to keep it from veering into sentimentality too much; the Blitz is no joke, and there are some moments of true grief throughout the film.
A sequence of fish leaping from the Indian Ocean to snatch fledgling terns from the air is edited with ideal savagery, a thrilling lack of sentimentality: a splashy half-dozen feather-crushing strikes.
Ovitz came as close to being a lone Hollywood hegemon as any one person can—and he did it thanks, in no small part, to an utter lack of sentimentality about the movies.
Though allergic to pop sentimentality, Mr. Comstock is capable of expressing a dryly wistful worldly-wise tenderness when applying himself to a ballad, and this restraint gives his song interpretations a poignant undercurrent.
There's not even the sentimentality of seeing the woman who grew up from bubble stabber to competent heel work one of the world's best and moving on to something which grows from that.
And after seeing Mostly Mozart's staged performance — being confronted with its ersatz counterculture, unwieldy structure, and, worst of all, Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz's cheap rhymes and sentimentality — I'm no closer to appreciating it.
Country music's knack for pushing emotional buttons sometimes veers into unsubtle sentimentality — see Scotty McCreery's current hit, "Five More Minutes," through which you'll roll your eyes while dabbing away a tear or two.
The arch sentimentality can get Capraesque, as when Hagerty tells a hostile Senate committee that he's decided not to testify, and instead carries the day by showing a bereaved family a spacewalk video.
Modersohn-Becker's expressionistic paintings — of nursing mothers, gourds and clay jugs, female nudes, children in forests — are rendered in thick textures and a muted, earthy palette, without a shred of sentimentality or cuteness.
He thought it would be interesting to see Ralph Lauren and Tom Ford work together — two distinctly American designers: one who's driven by sentimentality and the other by sex (but both by cinema).
The film's struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America's racial past — is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful.
Lewis nailed the physical manifestations of American male sentimentality—the watering eyes, the bulbous clench of the jaw when talking about fathers playing catch with their kids and soldiers coming home from war.
We also get the barest of backstories for most of the crew (and for a few of them, none at all), which means there's less opportunity for sentimentality than another film might have attempted.
But Mick Garris can't ever get the tone right, so moments of sentimentality are interspersed with campy fantasy cutaway scenes that feel like obvious padding and give the film an unfortunate Family Guy vibe.
Not only is it tough to capture Wainwright's ability to make the refrain "you're a bloody mother fucking asshole" sound beautiful, but the song requires an emotional range that conveys both sentimentality and fury.
The sheer grown-upness with which Spielberg tells the story makes its occasional sentimentality endearing — including a shot of Graham outside a courthouse that should be intolerably cornball, but instead is irresistibly tear jerking.
While pundits were surprised by This Is Us' success in 2016, they've since realized the unapologetic sentimentality of the drama tapped into a desperate need for comfort television amid America's relentlessly turbulent, divided atmosphere.
They couldn't, and regardless of rooting interest, if you appreciate history, sentimentality, or poetry, this was a painful way for a great career to close, especially when Ortiz had been so good this year.
That movie was fine in places (especially when the characters sang), but it also represented the very worst of overly sweet Disney sentimentality, working to tug viewers' heartstrings so hard it developed flop sweat.
Again, the literary dangers are obvious enough—whimsy, sentimentality, grating eccentricity—and again they are short-circuited by Øyehaug's appealing, vigorous simplicity: The deer stood at the edge of the forest and was miserable.
Only mildly marred by the sentimentality that infects so much American war writing, Hersey's account of the first American land offensive of World War II, Into the Valley (1943), sated a fierce public thirst.
Sentimentality rarely plays a role in roster building, but the Bulls did something far more extreme than decline to retain a veteran or two; they burned the house down, keeping only its two pillars.
Like Bonnie Raitt, a musician to whom she has often been compared, Ms. Osborne is a fiercely intelligent, no-nonsense singer-songwriter who is allergic to traditional pop sentimentality, though hardly devoid of feeling.
While the story certainly skirts (if not embraces) sentimentality and the overripeness of melodrama, the production's soft-hued style — and the sometimes wry tone of Mr. Martin's book — keeps it from curdling into treacle.
Stacked with an impressive cast and determined to veer away from the sentimentality and questionable historical assertions of the original, the revamped miniseries is one of the most highly anticipated TV events of 2016.
Wayne can, just as easily as Richter, perform slippages between categories and glide elusively across terrains of meaning; but, unlike Richter, Wayne doesn't shy away from sentimentality, with a sprinkling of joy and humor.
It Chapter Two never really depicts the way dewy sentimentality can curdle into pain and regret or considers whether the other side of middle age offers a way of letting go of the past.
St. Patrick's Day is always in danger of being drowned in beer and sentimentality, but President Trump and his inner circle of Irish-Americans have given it the possibility of renewed gravity and seriousness.
It certainly proves that the Chinese film industry can hold its own at the multiplex: It is just as awash in murky computer imagery, stupefying exposition and manipulative sentimentality as the average Hollywood tentpole.
But when Hilburn wears the ones commemorating Alabama's three most recent national titles — from the 2009, 2011 and 2012 seasons — they hang at the bottom of a necklace, separated more out of necessity than sentimentality.
Many of her stories live at the intersection of being poor but also being perceived as a walking womb, and are told in a matter-of-fact way that is void of judgment or sentimentality.
It's got work to do; sometimes the show verges on the cookie-cutter sentimentality that cable family dramas are known for, but the power of Party of Five is in what it asks of us.
It might just be Widdess' sense of spite, combined with her dry sense of humor, and a penchant for mischief, that makes her work so striking in contrast to the sentimentality traditionally associated with knitting.
And so, amid a cultural hostility toward sentimentality and the distrust of millennials from older generations (even as some of us are well into our 30s), we've found a new way to express our loneliness.
But it's a sign of the show's generosity of spirit (or tendency toward sentimentality, if you want to put a different spin on it) that the largely clueless or defensive white characters aren't simply caricatured.
The song's "lack of sentimentality, and the fierce feeling — so much more potent now than even when it was written — that the country will rise again" had her dissolving into tears yet again, she said.
The financial stakes for Penny and Josephine and their marks may be high, but otherwise "The Hustle" gambles with play money, risking a bit of sentimentality or wounded feelings here, a snarl of meanspiritedness there.
I know it sounds cold to say, but I don't think that the story mattered, partly because Leung doesn't reminisce, doesn't fill her poems with anecdotes or memories that all too quickly devolve into sentimentality.
And to his credit, Groeningen mostly stays at arm's length from his characters' mental and emotional states — but that's why these moments feel confusing and unnecessary, a dose of jarring sentimentality when it's not needed.
Re-watching the film for its tenth anniversary; however, I found that everything that irked me back then – doe-eyed sentimentality, history told through a montage, strings of almost cringe-inducing earnestness — is actually a delight.
"Pax" is not comparable tonally to "Charlotte's Web" — it has less irony and wit and a less insouciant protagonist — but Pennypacker does share White's resistance to sentimentality, offering in its place a pragmatic kind of awe.
And while the saving-history story lines give rise to earnestness and sentimentality, there's a nice vein of humor, mostly channeled through Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), the tech guy, who's a pessimist and an initially reluctant warrior.
Instead of becoming "mired in sentimentality like flies in molasses," David Koepp's romantic froth "tiptoes to the edge of that sticky mess, but it doesn't get caught there," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
" The former president added that the White House has a "sentimentality about" it, saying, "It is different for them than for most kids in that when they leave, they won't be able to come back home.
The holiday's partisans are above all defending the value of conventional sentiment — not just sentimentality, but structures of feeling explicitly defined as universally valuable, which is what both enables dissent and makes it a grave offense.
Mr. Muccino, an Italian director best known for the Will Smith vehicles "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Seven Pounds," doesn't shy away from the kind of wholesale sentimentality that feels like a hangover from the 1980s.
And though it may be a mechanical being that is left to tell the stories of what we once felt and thought we knew, "Paradiso" is steeped in what could be described as a ruthless sentimentality.
"Six" engages these tricky topics only commando-style: It hits them quickly and evacuates, focusing instead mainly on action, sentimentality and the relentless message, already plentiful in the news, that this is a sick, scary world.
With visual austerity and not an ounce of sentimentality, Chukwu transforms a character study into an indictment of institutionalized murder, the horror of which is made harrowingly palpable as Bernadine's face becomes a rictus of pain.
Via humor, true ferocity, charismatic wackiness, and not much sentimentality, Sweetener paints a completely unexpected and honest (if at times abstract) picture of Grande right now – a year after tragedy and in the throes of romantic bliss.
There's a genuine sense of yearning sentimentality at the heart of "Pretty Green Eyes", something that chimes with one of the primary identifiers of the British psyche: we're a bunch of moaners who revel in misery business.
Just look at the success of Stranger Things, which has proven that sentimentality for the not-too-distant past isn't just fun to watch, but it's also an easy way to sell things (welcome back, New Coke).
Why haven't Elgort and Steinfeld been cast as love interests in some lip-quivering teen movie that masterfully marries the wit and spark of The Edge of Seventeen with the sentimentality of The Fault in Our Stars?
Photograph by Richard Avedon I think it was exactly that kind of sentiment—a statement of fact filled with sentiment as opposed to sentimentality—that got on some of the reviewers' nerves when "Nothing Personal" was published.
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.
Three months earlier, he'd released "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1," the album that took the skeleton sound he'd developed in his bedroom — emo sentimentality, thunderous hip-hop underbelly, rock-star insouciance — and thickened it up.
The cancer theme leads to sentimentality, of course, but it's also used to roughen Alexa's edges: While she complains about being singled out, she also doesn't mind taking advantage of her invalid status when it suits her.
Late in Act I, when the Marschallin gently tells Octavian that sooner or later he will leave her for a younger woman, Ms. Pieczonka, in sync with Mr. Petrenko's approach, sang wistfully, but never wallowed in sentimentality.
But over all Ms. Waithe has succeeded in putting a wide web of interesting and sympathetic characters on screen and telling their stories with a minimum of sentimentality and a consistent, welcome dose of low-key humor.
He said in an HBO documentary about his life that he looked back with more sentimentality on old Moody's tomes on securities than family artifacts, which suggests something in his makeup was probably made for picking stocks.
Based on Cecelia Ahern's 2004 debut novel, P.S. I Love You has all the components of a standard "chick flick:" romance, a little sentimentality with some laughs sprinkled in, and some sort of beach or water scene.
Despite commonly heard jabs at the sometimes heavy-handed sentimentality of this titan's songs, the scope of her influence in popular music is undeniable: Artists from Ariana Grande to Frank Ocean to Adele have cited their fandom.
He said in an HBO documentary about his life that he looked back with more sentimentality on old Moody's tomes on securities than family artifacts, which suggests something in his makeup was probably made for picking stocks.
It's also easy to disparage the one-with-the-earth sentimentality in which the natural burial ground movement tends to cloak itself: "Our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to nature," one such cemetery admonishes.
With a cast that includes Poehler and her old friends (and frequent TV and movie collaborators) Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer and Paula Pell, expect plenty of sharp one-liners amid the unabashed sentimentality.
During a high-energy and emotional show, without sentimentality or let up, epitomizing their brand of bang-bang-cowbell-smash your amps music, one song was dedicated to Nick Alexander, the band's merchandise manager killed at the Bataclan.
The result is a collection of glaring, garish contradictions: a fetish for discipline paired with distaste for accountability, a wild sentimentality with a howling cynical nullity underneath, a veneration of sacrifice and a governing ethos of grasping greed.
And while you wouldn't want the show to tip over into sentimentality or preachiness, its studious avoidance of judgment starts to feel like a cop-out, or perhaps just a lazy choice, by the end of the season.
Though the movie restrains itself from tipping over into full-blown sentimentality, the conclusion feels ever so slightly too pat for a movie about two men who pride themselves in not flinching in the face of darker truths.
" He writes that the latter half of the 19th century was "an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude toward the ideal of personal freedom for those who already had it.
But the film is overstuffed with unfunny self-parodying gore slapstick, half-felt sentimentality and semi-meta sci-fi — characters mention "Inception" and "Back to the Future," just to let you know that they know that we know.
Her national "sentimentality quartet"—The Anatomy of National Fantasy, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, The Female Complaint, and Cruel Optimism—addresses precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary U.S. and Europe.
Now, Coloring Book—with its feel-good messaging about sentimentality, family, and empathy—is in contention for snagging multiple Grammy's including Best Rap Album, making it the only streaming-only album to receive a Grammy nomination in that category.
ND: So, there's something, on the one hand, taking this kind of sentimentality toward objects, something that has one particular value to certain people, and really kind of repurposing that, and, in that, giving it another kind of value.
A bastion of sentimentality over utility, the medium also serves as a metaphor for memory itself: sharp and clear in the beginning, but with age and use it becomes fuzzy and warped until it can no longer be replayed.
A new book, "Famous Nathan", by Lloyd Handwerker, Famous Nathan's grandson, recounts the all-American tale, reserving as much sentimentality for his grandfather's story as for that of the once-great Coney Island, the people's paradise by the sea.
And even when it leans out perilously into sentimentality, it's reeled back from the edge by the fact that its two central characters are from Northern Ireland, and can't let anything get too far down the path of sappiness.
The two images in succession — the sentimentality of home, the gently self-­mocking irony of the black-and-white wagon — felt like a personal send-off in a minor key, an understated announcement that he was on his way.
However, a cursory look at today's popular Mother's Day cards suggests that many of these commercialized cards outsmart the traditional sentimentality of Mother's Day, expressing gratitude for mom's hard work by noting, with ironic humor, her stress and exhaustion.
Mostly, Mr. Cohen is done in by his character, Nobby, a mutton-chopped caricature of vulgarity whose unreconstructed stupidity and deep-veined sentimentality suggest that he may have other relatives tearing it up in Mike Leigh's class-conscious comedies.
All of that made it pretty clear, if it wasn't before, that her music and ideas move in tandem, a philosophy of developing and giving and changing, filtered through an intense sentimentality that takes surreal, spiritual and comic turns.
On one side, you've got the softer sensibilities of guitarist-vocalist Chris McCaughan that have lent the band a hint of tender sentimentality on songs like "100 Resolutions," which he took with him to his acoustic solo project Sundowner.
This meant Reyes was available to anyone at the league minimum, and that—or that plus desperation, plus sentimentality, plus a crucial dose of shamelessness—was enough to entice the Mets into taking a shot at their former star.
There's a nagging sense that today's Christmas films lack the authenticity of the classics—rather than obliquely acknowledging the challenges of life, recent works only introduce hardship for the sake of wishing it away through recourse to sentimentality itself.
Debra's friend, Peggy (Helen Coxe), watches the rosé-fueled evening devolve — Ms. Coxe's awkward dance to Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is the single funniest thing in the entire show — and eventually comedy gives way to sentimentality.
I once had the pleasure of meeting a few of the master luthiers who craft Gibson guitars, and I can tell you that it isn't sentimentality, dopey and half-digested nationalism, or pity that is keeping them in business.
"Using a combination of bleak realism, fatalistic humor and a healthy dose of sentimentality, Mr. de Heer traces the downward spiral of a man who has become a refugee in his own homeland," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times.
"Chewing Gum" runs on sheer inventiveness rather than story and structure, and in the last few episodes of the second season, Ms. Coel starts to run short of ideas and drift toward the shoals of up-with-people sentimentality.
While retaining the jolliness and sentimentality associated with some 170 years' worth of stage versions (including a competitive flock that opened the year after its publication), Thorne and Warchus have polished the story's social conscience to a restored brightness.
Holiday-themed movies always face the risk of veering too far into saccharine sentimentality, but Home Alone cuts the sugar with a truly dark, disturbing undercurrent that becomes more apparent as the viewer leaves childhood further and further behind.
The "inspirational true-life story" has become a bit of a picked-on genre in recent years, thanks to how many mediocre or even outright bad versions lean heavily on the schmaltz and sentimentality in hopes of winning Oscar gold.
The surprise that lurks in the sentimentality of "I and You," which is directed by Sean Daniels, surely partly accounts for its having already received 20 productions around the United States, not to mention the American Theater Critics Association Steinberg-A.
When Grant develops feelings for the president of the fictional country of Bashran, her closest advisers fret that sentimentality will prevent her from acting in the best interests of the country, so they blow up his plane as he leaves America.
Adding a pop of sentimentality to Baylor's changing-station area — which features accessories and a diaper pail from Ubbi ($70) — Lakin included a special nod to all of the states that the family hold near and dear to their hearts.
The sentimentality of his speech might not have disturbed me so much if he'd been less earnest, if he'd just assumed that cheap psychology was how one picked up women at bars, but he seemed to believe every word he spoke.
The story is saved from whimsy or sentimentality by this nicely humdrum coda: I tell him what has happened since I lost him, and assure him that I approved of his valedictory bite, that awful deliveryman who had it coming.
His casts, even when they are not wearing sneakers, and jackets emblazoned with protest slogans, as they did in his recent "The Times Are Racing," often seem like teen-agers, a notion that is highly vulnerable to cliché and sentimentality.
We're used to pop music that gushes with emotion, sentimentality, naughtiness, impulse—but this is a track about desire that's controllable, about love that Dua Lipa needs to end, and (to use an old cliché) about head prevailing over heart.
I don't normally like full-bodied wines in the afternoon, but its elevated acidity and lemon cake sentimentality have me wishing the Chateau had a hot tub I could sit in and spray multiple bottles of this into my mouth.
Solomon (who makes a memorable appearance in Richard Linklater's Waking Life expounding upon the virtues of existentialism) observes that sentimentality is seen as a bad thing, as to be labeled a sentimentalist is to be derided as a hypocrite and fraud.
The first two songs, "To Know Your Mission" and "Evening Prayer" contextualize  the album's existential anxiety with spiritual yearnings and wet admissions of sentimentality, but the concreteness of their details, intended to be clever, is not a substitute for wit.
Instead, the blink-and-you'll-miss-it scheduling may well reflect the difficulties of putting on "Lady in the Dark," which combines elements of operetta, swinging mid-20th-century Americana, dramatic theater, and the sweet sentimentality of Golden Age Broadway.
James's return to free agency is just 44 days away and — unless his wife and children tell him they cannot bear to leave Northern Ohio — what incentive would the native of nearby Akron have to stay with the Cavaliers beyond sentimentality?
Through the smog of distractions, a portrait emerges of a uniquely gifted, complicated, arrogant and combative writer, one whose abhorrence of sentimentality caused her to savage "The Sound of Music" and the "inhumanly happy" performance of its star, Julie Andrews.
"German art in the next decade will be heroic, steely but romantic, factual without sentimentality; it will be nationalistic, with great depth of feeling; it will be binding and it will unite, or it will cease to exist," Goebbels said.
Instead, she uses Lloyd's skeptical perspective to explore how applicable Rogers' simple (but never easy) approach to the world is for those of us who are no longer children, avoiding cheap sentimentality in favor of more grounded displays of emotion.
Even friends who attest to his dry wit and well-concealed sentimentality acknowledge a Man Without Qualities aspect to him: "He isn't a jokester," says Slade Gorton, the former Republican senator from Washington State and an old friend of McConnell's.
Through a series of exhaustive interviews and saccharine editorializing, 60 Minutes icon Morley Safer and his crew paste together an alternative reality that attempts to goad a sense of sentimentality out of the viewer by making a villain of Arnett.
It has that political drama's same sense of optimism, and the same sense that its characters can be at odds without wanting to literally kill each other, but it saves itself from sentimentality by always feeling shot through with a bittersweet melancholy.
In working on this project and speaking mainly to my mother, uncle, and aunt, I understood that when they spoke about their lives before the political mess in Syria, they had quite fond memories and until now speak about those times with sentimentality.
The team's decision to jump headlong into the dumpster to pull out ex-hero Jose Reyes at the end of his domestic violence suspension was less about sentimentality than it was day-to-day need and a combination of cheapness and poverty.
Benjamin Lee, The Guardian: Portman is a strident, fiercely compelling presence, investing us in both her mission and her interlinked marriage (flashbacks to her relationship with Isaac are surprisingly sweet, witty and sexy), providing an emotional center without the need for sentimentality.
By the time you're an adult though, the high school experience starts to permeate through your consciousness with alarming sentimentality, as though the scientific stuff that courses through your veins has collated with every formative, hormonal moment to make you who you are.
" Gamma rose to become one of the rulers of Poland because of his fanatical devotion to Communist doctrine: "This was the reward for those who knew how to think correctly, who understood the logic of History, who did not surrender to senseless sentimentality!
Sentimentality, as Solomon observes, involves in giving oneself over to such manipulation; the criticism of consumers as complicit in this process implies that the emotions felt are not the person's own, real and authentic, but a product of the skillful manipulation of Hollywood.
Lil Peep, who over the last two years emerged as one of pop music's brightest and most promising young talents, blending the urgency and dexterity of contemporary hip-hop with the raw, serrated sentimentality of emo, died on Wednesday night in Tucson.
Ms. Gadsby calls out Louis C.K., Harvey Weinstein and Bill Clinton, not to mention Pablo Picasso, in an ingenious indictment of the sexism and sentimentality of our narratives about genius, but her real target is the culture that enables and excuses abuse.
Sentimentality was less worrying, partly because Lisicky's question to himself strikes, on second pass, less as a denial and more as a warning — it's unclear, to him, to the reader, to the project of this book, where the line into sentiment is.
Season three's earlier installments were hampered by many of the show's established problems — its forced sentimentality, its weird insistence on upholding traditional gender roles, its inability to let any moment play naturally when it could lard on the music and the tears.
Familiar emotions are uncannily modulated, sentimentality is injected into something sinister — these, too, are common devices in experimental dance music (as well as vaporwave); they aim to depict the breakdown of conventional structures of feeling and hence access previously unattainable raw emotion.
As we left the cinema, I thought of another film set in Italy, The Great Beauty, which travels on such a high plain of emotion that you always feel as though it is going to fall disastrously off into sentimentality, and yet it never does.
She guessed that he'd probably been close to his mother, and then grown up to be embarrassed by her, and hated himself for neglecting her, but couldn't admit to any of this because he was always announcing publicly how much he loathed sentimentality and guilt.
Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that the stories that move us the most are the ones that are, ultimately, about ourselves, with Christmas as the impetus for accessing those tender feelings—the crux of sentimentality in Solomon's estimation—that we suppress all year long.
Two loves in particular dominate "Greek to Me": the Acropolis and Homer, both of which Norris returns to so religiously that she often ends a passage about one or the other on a joking note, to avoid, I presume, sinking into sentimentality or self-dramatization.
Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), the love of Wade's life, warns him that his heart is not in the right place, and there is a softness, a sentimentality, at the heart of "Deadpool 2" that at once guarantees its mass acceptability and undermines its satirical credibility.
Veering from farce to sentimentality, infused throughout with the anarchic pop humanism Waititi has brought to projects as various as "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and "Thor: Ragnarok," it risks going wrong in a dozen different ways and manages to avoid at least half of them.
The story runs along the channels you'd expect, and there are dangerous shoals of sentimentality: Marius-Pete, whose own childhood was harrowing, finds himself falling for his new family and will have to decide whether to stick to his plan of fleecing them and disappearing.
"Natural Blues" absorbs this sentimentality, sampling folk singer Vera Hall's soulful yet sorrow-filled "Trouble So Hard," and one of its two music videos stars a geriatric Moby looking back at his life before letting an angel of death (played by Christina Ricci) carry him away.
For their "Never Forget" series, designers Sarah and Carol Piron used an image of Spears and Timberlake emblazoned with the aforementioned phrase, allowing those with a hefty dose of early-2000s nostalgia to wear their sentimentality for the decade on their chest for the price of $152.47.
In any exercise in this sort of mass sentimentality, like a Presidential campaign or an Olympiad, there's a lot more reaching for a unifying thing—or, in a pinch, a dividing wedge that's wide enough at the top and sufficiently sharp at the business end—than usual.
"It gives in one eddying concentration almost every possible foolishness, cliché, platitude and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general, served up with a sauce of sentimentality that is all its own" H.G. Wells wrote in a ringing non-endorsement for The Times in 1927.
It's easy to imagine a big-budget feature version of "Good Omens" that would lean into the sentimentality while also giving more striking visual treatment to Adam's accidental reorderings of the world, like the sudden emergence of Atlantis and the appearance of tunneling Tibetans in Lower Tadfield.
But what makes this his most satisfying work since "Punch Drunk Love" (2002), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who filmed some of his stand-up in Los Angeles (Steven Brill directed the special), is how fully it embraces a signature of his late career: an unapologetic sentimentality.
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In "The Age of Emotion," Romantic sentimentality is addressed though the cycle of life; selections progress from cream-hued wedding attire to an adjustable maternity dress, a discreet nursing dress and a baby's dress and cap, and on to black mourning garments for women and children.
Because it is a French film, or rather the kind of French film that wants to serve its sentimentality with a dollop of prestige, "The Midwife" doesn't offer an entirely shameless version of the "dying free spirit imbues uptight caretaker with a new lust for life" scenario.
Like most sitcom finales — and particularly like Schur's last big finale, the 2015 ending of his series Parks & Recreation — The Good Place wrapped up with a hefty dose of sentimentality and friendship, as the characters said their last goodbyes, then moved on into the wider universe.
Where the book's digressions sometimes bog down are in its more self-reflective moments: Noe the storyteller defending himself against charges (but whose?) of sentimentality and holding forth on the relationship between story and truth, the real and the imagined, and the enriching merits of the arts.
This is a Hong Kong action picture in the classical mode, balancing mayhem with sentimentality, offering up bone-crunching and jaw-dropping set pieces, and pulling out all the stops for a finale teeming with stressful twists and turnabouts — not to mention kicks, punches, gunshots and explosions.
The film's spiked nog of cynicism and sentimentality wasn't easy for some to swallow, including Canby: As Frank Cross, the ratings-mad program chief of the IBC television network, Mr. Murray's contemporary Scrooge is a joy as long as he's making life miserable for everyone around him.
To relish that sensibility, you do not have to be familiar with what's being made mock of here: the hidebound institutions of parliament and the navy, the pieties of Victorian sentimentality and Italian operas in which improbably intricate plots were matched by the ornateness of the score.
It was like a cocktail party in the sky, and the sentimentality over this era is well-established in everything from Chrissy Teigen's 257 birthday party to a Pan Am-themed restaurant in Los Angeles, which for $29 a head recreates the experience of flying in the '211s.
So when they broke up last year without any explanation or warning—marked not with a final tour or emotive essay, but with a 9-digit Facebook post reading "73-2017"—it felt strangely normal, a perfectly unsentimental ending for a band who saved all sentimentality for recording.
Maddow's prime-time hour of overheated speculation lacks the antic sensibility and maudlin sentimentality of, for instance, the pre-exile Glenn Beck, who had scribbled all his manic and intricate chalkboard theories of history as conspiracy (and vice versa) with the studied passion of a coffee-shop prophet.
CNN Money once deemed it "one of the best places to live" due to low crime rates, and it's been described as the kind of town that evokes a particular kind of American sentimentality — duck crossing signs, picnicking families, ice cream parlors, and little chapels with green lawns.
Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997), and The Female Complaint (2008) — has now morphed into a quartet, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary U.S. and Europe.
"This is our first fashion show and I wanted do to it at Pitti because of this sentimentality I had about the fair," the 032c founder and publisher Joerg Koch said before the first of three consecutive shows held in a gilded salon of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
This is more than talk-show sentimentality — it's part of why he is seen by voters as such a deeply sympathetic figure, and why some people are probably going to be more willing to trust his intentions and forgive his missteps than they would be for other candidates.
There are a few moments in Life that veer into sentimentality, feeling like they're dropped in from a different movie — most notably, a scene in which David snatches a copy of Goodnight Moon that's floating around the ship after being given to Sho for his newborn daughter back on Earth.
" And Kirkus — though it declares the book's treatment of Hemings "problematic" — decides that in "fully acknowledging the tragedy of slavery, O'Connor produces a tale that is overflowing with the range of human emotion; in its depiction of feeling, the novel is often brilliant, dense in poetry and light on unearned sentimentality.
It keeps his work clear of the sentimentality that might infect this tale under a different hand and that might also thereby defeat the possibility of getting close to a couple of characters and a milieu with which, I will wager, many of those in the audience have little familiarity.
In the video for "Blk Girl Soldier," which came out in early June, Woods first appears in a room that, for her, radiates warmth—the walls bear collages by artist Krista Franklin of women like Parks and Assata Shakur—and sentimentality: Woods wears armor made out of hair beads and rollers.
There are a lot of things that set "The Americans" apart from other prime-time dramas, but I'd argue that its greatest strength has been its refusal to compromise with Elizabeth — to push her toward sentimentality or zealotry, either of which would be easier to write and, for some, to understand.
Algren was taken sharply to task for writing a book that Alfred Kazin found saturated in "puerile sentimentality," Leslie Fiedler declared written by a museum piece, and Norman Podhoretz scorned for trying to tell its middle-class readers that bums and tramps had more humanity than the rest of us.
I realized that was nostalgia and sentimentality, and that all the things that were holding me back in life could be traced to me not wanting to move out of my parents' house—or not wanting to leave the home that we moved out of when I was seven years old.
" Finalists Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post | Manohla Dargis of The New York Times Editorial Writing Ms. Dominick was cited for examining the consequences of Iowa's Medicaid privatization, as well as the broader health care challenges mounting for regular Iowans, "in a clear, indignant voice, free of cliché or sentimentality.
Speaking in rapid-fire pronouncements in the three languages in which he was fluent (German, French and English), Mr. Lagerfeld charged through life without stopping except, perhaps, to compose the personal notes for which he was famous among friends or to express a playfulness and sentimentality that the public seldom saw.
During "A Change of Heart," the Wedding Reception In a Pub vibe of his untucked-shirt-and-cigarette-in-hand gait underlines the song's unfussy sentimentality of the song (from the side of the stage where I'm standing, I see an assistant bringing him regularly timed cigarettes, which: you would if you could).
Unapologetically nostalgic for a time when small shops could flourish and CDs hadn't completely replaced vinyl, the book is saved from total sentimentality by its comic verve and also by its immersion in music: Joyce vividly describes characters transported by a Shalamar beat, a Beethoven sonata, Handel's "Messiah," an Aretha Franklin song.
"The Last Movie Star" takes a turn from cringeworthy fish-out-of-water comedy into anodyne sentimentality when Vic and his incongruously dressed driver, Lil (Ariel Winter) — a goth aspiring artist whose sketches were contributed by the "Hellraiser" director Clive Barker — escape to Vic's hometown Knoxville, where he makes peace with his past.
Veering between mawkish sentimentality on the one hand and indulgence in video-game war porn on the other, the country could no longer appreciate as it once did the martial virtues, which are not unbridled ferocity but rather discipline, self-abnegation, perseverance and loyalty to a constitutional order rather than to a president.
Sentimentality turns swiftly to humor, intimacies wax and wane, and major life transformations turn on small moments like the brief meeting of gazes between a woman dangling from a rope during her first attempt at mountaineering and the stranger on the ground below who will make her long to leave her husband.
" Which we can add to a list of meta-lines that includes "I have a clarity of vision that allows me to resist a housemaid's trap of sentimentality" and "A day of racing cars and pigs: who could better that?" and "Do other butlers have to contend with the police arriving every 10 minutes?
I've already tumbled into the well of personal narrative where Lockett's art eddies into a whirlpool of sentimentality, pity, and rage about the shrunken life chances of people like Lockett from the rural South, people who graduated from high school, but never learned a trade and who lived in their mother's house their entire lives.
And not just the urgent physical event of adulterous sex — though that's wonderfully well described, shot through with guilt and risk and yet presented ­entirely without mawkishness or sentimentality — but also its interminable emotional navigations and negotiations, the deceit and the guilt, the quotidian tug of war between desire and (in Bonnie's case anyway) loneliness.
Possibly, for a choreographer who is wary of sentimentality or who, let's face it, may not know what he wants to say, a way to make meaning in ballet is just to push the dancers into becoming fully human—tender, surprising, even awkward—at the same time that they are trying to be perfect.
The second half of the miniseries gets bogged down in sentimentality and drama at the expense of keeping things lean; it also gets weirdly uncomfortable at one point, with an unnecessary moment in which the authoritarian rabbit Woundswort tries to blackmail one of the female prisoners in his labor camp into becoming his rabbit queen.
" He acknowledges the great poets of the last century who "met terrible ends" at the mercy of deteriorating mental health (among them Sylvia Plath, Randall Jarrell and John Berryman), but insists, quoting the critic Joan Acocella, that "it is a species of sentimentality to think that the end of something tells the truth about it.
Directed by Xavier Beauvois ("Of Gods and Men") and adapted from a 1924 novel by Ernest Pérochon, "The Guardians" is a historical drama that doesn't lose itself in decorative period detail, a beautifully photographed chronicle of rural existence that refrains from picturesque sentimentality and grinding misery, the usual modes for this kind of film.
Much as Mr. Trump promised he would restore America to its lost greatness during his presidential campaign — a vow that, to many, clanged with sentimentality for a whiter, less tolerant nation — he is using symbols of the Confederacy to tell conservatives that he will not allow liberals to blot out their history and heritage.
Painters such as Mario Radice, Mauro Reggiani, and Atanasio Soldati were entirely new to me, and while not particularly groundbreaking, their work comprised a colorful, idiosyncratic response to Synthetic Cubism at a time when many Italian artists, seeking to curry favor with Mussolini's imperialist fantasies, took a sharp right turn toward Neoclassicism in all of its sentimentality and bombast.
The reasons should range from the usual theorizing about the power of social media to the thornier question of how the struggles of Native Americans can be excerpted from any broader American narrative and placed within an ahistorical context in which the usual, impossible questions that are asked of all activists can be replaced with thoughtless sentimentality.
"Grave" (season 223, episode 22) "Grave" is the only Buffy season finale not written and directed by Joss Whedon, and it shows a little: Its pacing isn't perfect, feeling overstuffed in some places and rushed in others, and there are occasional moments of sentimentality (Buffy telling Dawn she wants to show her the world) that don't quite feel earned.
Playing the young Helen Keller — a rigorous role that required her to act, persuasively but without sentimentality, the part of a deaf-blind child subject to fearsome rages; to learn the manual alphabet; and to engage nightly in an ad-libbed, highly physical onstage fight with Ms. Bancroft that could last nearly 21985 minutes — she won critical plaudits and enduring fame.
Much of the show's humor and pathos (because this kind of series comes with a heavy dose of sentimentality, and "Cradle to Grave" tips to that side) is generated by Spud's losing battle against the economic realities of globalization, as shipping moves to the Continent — to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and to Hamburg, Germany — and the dock workers are offered increasingly attractive buyouts.
No one seems to know exactly how we ended up celebrating love and sentimentality on February 14 every year—spare your friends the "invented by Hallmark" chat, please—but a general consensus revolves around the brutally violent ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia, the two martyred men named Valentine (also Roman!), honored by the Catholic Church and the French Normans' Galatin's Day. Whatever.
Elsewhere the anthems fall flat; a roomful of sympathetic young people chanting along with "We are just, we are just, we are just teens of style" in a tune as nostalgically celebratory as this one, or for that matter, the ballad about the unforgiving world but she's not an unforgiving girl, constitutes a ritual of resigned sentimentality that inadvertently self-congratulates.
The words "PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT" illuminated above cars on a highway; movie-theater marquees spelling out maxims like "Men Don't Protect You Anymore" or "IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER"; her colored squares with tiny ferocious monographs (her "Inflammatory Essays") in black italic caps, about snakes and men and fucking and undue sentimentality.
The peculiar achievement of the writers, Luke Davies and David Michôd, and of George Clooney — who directed two of six episodes, is an executive producer and stars as the parade-obsessed officer Scheisskopf — is to take a daring, brilliantly observed synthesis of farce and outrage and turn it into a conventional, mostly laugh-free war story whose dominant notes are nostalgia, sentimentality and a resigned chagrin.
The movie might sound like it teeters on sentimentality, with the cliché of a white savior showing the way, but the story — based on a 2006 memoir, "Greetings From Bury Park," by the British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor — belongs to its young hero, who rejects the false choice presented to those who live between cultures, of having to renounce his heritage or be forever constrained by it.
Playlist: "Once" / "Release" / "Leash" / "Daughter" / "I Got Id" / "Last Exit" / "Corduroy" / "Hail, Hail" / "Smile" / "Given to Fly" / "In Hiding" / "Insignificance" / "The Fixer" Spotify | Apple Music One of the chief complaints people have with Pearl Jam is that they're overly earnest, and while Vedder's lyrics have always had an angst-fueled sentimentality to them, it's something he learned from the king of heart-on-sleeve songwriting: Bruce Springsteen.
What sets this album above previous ones isn't Anohni's voice per se, which remains the model of a pathologically strained Brit-soul school that tackier artists like Sam Smith have since taken to the pop charts, or her political lyrics, which have gotten more alert and continue to dwell on rising tides and dying animals with more sentimentality than an ecologist might prefer, but rather the new experimental electronic template.
Playlist: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" / "When I'm Sixty-Four" / "Lovely Rita" / "Honey Pie" / "Martha My Dear" / "You Gave Me the Answer" / "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Your Mother Should Know" / "Her Majesty" Spotify | Apple Music McCartney's earnestness and sentimentality would sometimes tip a bit too far toward the saccharine side of the spectrum and bite him in the ass as a songwriter, but ultimately they are his greatest gift.
Judd Apatow was not involved with this film in any formal capacity (though his frequent collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced the film, and Mann, who is married to Apatow, has also been in a number of his movies), but the strain of film comedy he birthed with The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up pairs raunch with sentimentality to serve up surprisingly moralistic messages — and that's just what Blockers does.
In one of his studies of the Dreyfus Affair, he noticed a peculiar division on the political left in those long-ago times, which led the more-or-less liberal left to line up in defense of Captain Dreyfus against the anti-Semites — and led the orthodox Marxists, out of hatred for bourgeois sentimentality and a monomania of their own doctrine, to line up, as if by mistake, on the other side.
" The same article suggested that traditional valentines were for bumpkins and that city sophisticates had moved on: "Our country cousins, judged by St. Valentine's Day, still retain that primitive sentimentality which prompts this bashful mode of confessing even vaguely to the existence of the tender passion, while the more matter-of-fact denizen of the Metropolis either has more nerve to openly declare his or her love, or, with the spirit of cosmopolitanism, considers the time-honored custom of sending valentines as befitting only past and more puerile ages and peoples.

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