Kristina McMorris

On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

American Author

Jim Nantz

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.

American Entertainer

Lesley Sharp

With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.

English Actress

Garth Ennis

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Irish Writer

Porter Robinson

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

American Musician

Maya Angelou

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.

American Poet

Greta Gerwig

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

American Actress

Simon Beaufoy

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

British Writer

Lasse Hallstrom

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Swedish Director

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

American Writer

Used when emotions are deeply expressed, often in a touching or genuine way.

Expressive Emotions

Shows strong feelings of love or fondness, appropriate in personal or emotionally driven text.

Heightened Affection

Often found in creative works like poetry, music, or art to evoke strong feelings.

Artistic Expression

Be careful not to overdo it, as too much can seem unnatural or insincere.

Avoid Overuse

Can provoke mixed reactions; some may find it touching, others may find it cheesy.

Audience Response

 the white picket fence. And even today, we see a white picket fence and we think success, self-possession. But when you strip away the sentimentality, what it really does is divides us. Many Americans are rejecting the white picket fence and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it,

The new American Dream PIPE...

 sentimentality here and this female will mate with many males and lay many hundreds of eggs in the few short weeks of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors

The Secret World of...

 it seems we'd have a handle on it we talk a beautiful soul lost souls soul food soul mates and yet somehow the more we talk the greater the risk of falling into cliche there's an easy sentimentality to the idea of someone

Sentimentality