0 being sentimental:
Caring for animals is not sentimentality - it reinforces our respect for life.
At this point, all too obviously, sentimentalism moved from high- to middlebrow, and from there to lowbrow in the twentieth century.
He fights shy of sentimentalism, sometimes too fiercely.
Another kind of account suggests an ideological struggle, in which the feminization of sentimentalism, its identification as being for and about women, is thoroughly implicated.
Questions arise, in this kind of account, about how to understand sentimentalism's 'persistence' throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
These notions are not intended to mirror precisely the concepts of moral rationalism and sentimentalism, though the distinctions are not unrelated.
Religiosity and skepticism, rationalism and sentimentalism, idealism and materialism, essentialism and environmentalism, all receive more or less the same emphasis.
These and other virtues need to be defined more clearly if they are not to degenerate into sentimentalism and to remain within the power of the school to cultivate.
They prevent theological reductionism and sentimentalism.
