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Sentimentality Checkers dog given as gift to Nixon; used in his defense of political contributions during presidential campaign (1952). [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 126] comic strip in which sentimentality is the main motif. [Comics: Horn, 217–218] impossibly kind and unselfish child is loved by all and reforms selfish grandfather. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 591] saccharine story of five orphans. [Am. Lit.: Harriet Lothrop Five Little Peppers and How They Grew in Hart, 495] mawkish girl, overpleased to have two shoes, exclaims her fortune to all. [Nurs. Rhyme: “Little Goody Two Shoes” in Barnhart, 502] protagonist of 1930s series of sentimental “family” movies. [Am. Cinema: Griffith, 300] death scene of sweet child epitomizes sentimentality. [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop] portrayed traditionally in art as weeping; whence, maudlin. [Art: Misc.] plays role of languishing lover. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night] forever playing the hero, he fails to be the faithful lover and husband of his adoring Grizel. [Br. Lit.: J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy in Benét, 914] journalist who handles advice to lovelorn column. [Am. Journalism: Brewer Dictionary, 1016] tune of a man’s former romance, usually sung in barbershop harmony. [Am. Music: Hart, 823] television show of depression-era America softened by nostalgia. [TV: Terrace, II, 418–419]
artistic young man whose ultra-romantic life is filled with hopeless passions. [Ger. Lit.: The Sorrows of Young Werther in Magill I, 915] |
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His mind, vulgar in its effort at refinement, saw everything a little larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality. And to avoid condemning the father with whom he lived and on whom he was dependent, and, above all, to avoid giving way to sentimentality, which he considered so degrading, Seryozha tried not to look at his uncle who had come to disturb his peace of mind, and not to think of what he recalled to him. Is it just sentimentality, old wives' tales, or is she right? |
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