| 单词 | sentimentalism |
| 例句 | Such sentimentalism may seem ridiculous considering what I had witnessed in the last days, but those were the deeds of others, of predatory animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Certainly not the critics — I was one of them — who greeted the almost 150 minutes of extravagant action, baroque plotting and high-octane sentimentalism of “F9” with gentle sighs of gratitude. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Like all of Mr. Simon’s work, it’s notable for its journalistic rigor, its resistance to sentimentalism and sensation and its top-to-bottom good casting. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s “a soapy, hysterically pitched melodrama drenched in sentimentalism and Old South cant” that helped perpetuate a gauzy Lost Cause myth that has romanticized oppression and valorized traitors for generations. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s about money and families and the ties that bind and cut, although because it was directed by Ridley Scott there isn’t a jot of sentimentalism gumming the works. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z They argue earnestly about things like privilege, cultural imperialism, power structures and the male gaze; threaten to get tattoos with Adorno quotes; and drop references to “reactionary Cartesian sentimentalism” during arguments. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Alexievich is a master at employing the withheld detail to undercut the unfiltered sentimentalism of a narrator, or adding a poetic sting to an otherwise prosaic entry. What Children Remember From the War 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Our individualistic sentimentalism exalts the wonders of romance, but in many societies, such indulgence is considered a luxury; something people can’t afford to prioritize in forging long-term relationships. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z Despite the anthropomorphized Little House, Burton smartly avoids smarmy sentimentalism with a straightforward text and illustrations that sparkle with color and design. 'The Little House' and 'Brown Bear' chalk up big anniversaries 2012-03-24T04:14:31Z But sentimentalism was also, from the beginning, vulnerable to attack. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z That’s par for the course for the Farrellys, whose vulgarity has always been leavened by their sense of decency and too frequently undermined by their sentimentalism. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z In its refusal to have any truck with sentimentalism, Bad Santa is a tremendously good film, and perhaps a brilliant satire of Christmassy family sentimentality and commercialism. The Santa supremacy: Peter Bradshaw's top Christmas movies 2010-12-15T21:30:07Z This is not sentimentalism on Mr. Castellucci’s part, but it is strangely, deeply moving. Review: ‘Go down, Moses,’ Romeo Castelluci’s Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z If you’re looking for some Irish sentimentalism, look elsewhere or, really, just wait. | 'The Guard': Mismatched Partners in a Crime Comedy 2011-07-29T00:26:25Z An author who, for example, lacks a sense of irony is always bound to remain mediocre, and irony-less writers have a squeaky voice that achieves either slapstick or sentimentalism or just reportage. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A coming-of-age drama about a tough kid from a rough neighborhood, “The City of Wild Beasts” is devoid of both the sensationalism and the sentimentalism that usually afflict the “slumdog” genre. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Tonight's show works best when Coldplay lean upon their soppier, soft-rock instincts, Martin singing with a sincerity that transcends the sentimentalism of his songs. Coldplay – review 2012-06-03T17:00:01Z But American commodification – and sentimentalism – meant the tree was eventually adopted with abandon and ingenuity. Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner – review 2012-12-14T08:00:01Z But if the film avoids the typical sentimentalism of dramas about terminal illness, it indulges heavily in dourness. ‘Asia’ Review: Tough Love and an Indecent Proposal 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The textbook sentimentalism of these pieces — tear-producing and personally experiential — smooths the absurdity of the aesthetic and political pairings. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z In the film, Phogat is shown as a towering figure who combines patriarchal autocracy with tender affection bordering on sentimentalism: he is totally pig-headed, and unrelenting in his fanatical determination that his girls must excel. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z No goofy sentimentalism … an aboriginal American man and child with a US flag. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z Away from Pearl Jam, his instincts run weirder but, still cleaving to a songwriting sensibility that understands the rewards of staying just the right side of sentimentalism, the effects are marvellous. Eddie Vedder – review 2012-08-01T17:53:52Z The overarching hope was to draw out a more respectful, constructive connection between slum-dwellers and readers than the default sentimentalism and pity. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z It’s a promising, poignant crisis that the director Anne Fletcher swamps with gauzy sentimentalism and cutesy comedy, particularly once Will decides to turn a beauty pageant into a means of personal revolt. Review: ‘Dumplin’’ Shares an Ordinary Girl’s Truth 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z If there aren’t new and inventive ways to keep them debauched and fending off marriage, there’s a constant danger of sliding into sentimentalism. ‘You’re the Worst,’ on FX, Extends Its Subversive Rom-Com Arc 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee, straining, ends up delivering a sentimentalism that undermines Mr. Church’s performance and this film’s promise. Review: ‘Cardboard Boxer’: Homeless Man’s Redemption via a Diary 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Suggested synonyms for the word include not only sentimentalism, but mawkishness, maudlinism, melodramatics, mushiness – a host of “m” words to make the whole idea quite unappealing. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z With lyrics by Ogden Nash, “Venus” stems from the days before Rodgers and Hammerstein sentimentalism took over, when musicals truly scintillated verbally. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z Two new books offer important corrections to such sentimentalism. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But the movie works, in great part because the director Karyn Kusama, best known for her indie breakout “Girlfight,” commits to the material’s malice and keeps sentimentalism in check as fiercely as her hardworking star. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z And, it probably goes without saying, I dont find the romanticism or sentimentalism to be egregious crimes. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z Rather than fuzzy-wuzzy sentimentalism, that liminal space between objective reality and the netherworld is presented as a natural, if exceedingly rare, fact of life. Review | ‘The Lost King’: True story of the search for the grave of Richard III 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Fear for the future of the country percolates up from the sea of sentimentalism in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In other words, it's the "dismantling of sentimentalism," which Knott said is "good news." Is this the worst time in American history to be a mom? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Dr Stevenson, the medical officer of health for Paddington, asserted women had "the same physical necessities" as men and the call for female toilets was "no imaginary want created by sentimentalism". London's long-term lav affair: A history of public toilets in the capital 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z “That is how these people are, their overflowing sentimentalism. Their motion picture style of exaggerated feeling.” Review: Cynthia Ozick, nearly 93, writes her age in the evocative novella "Antiquities" 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z “There is a demonic side to the sentimentalism of saving lives at any cost,” wrote R.R. Column: Amazingly, politicians are debating which matters more -- your health or the stock market 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z My 21st-century sentimentalism leads me to challenge that logical opposite, and propose that the true converse of creative fear is simply freedom. How do you make your soul grow? Embrace your everyday creativity – no matter how aimless | Charlotte Church 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Nor does “Hillary and Clinton” have the zippy sentimentalism of something like “The West Wing.” Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The whole women’s program failed and was dubbed sentimentalism by the speaker of the house. ‘Not Just One of the Boys’: How Women Fought Their Way to N.Y.’s Seat of Power 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “The migrations of robins are stirring; their adaptability to different habitats is staggering; their easily observed family life is endlessly fascinating and, with no apologies for sentimentalism, heartwarming.” Perspective | We once hunted and ate robins. Now the birds are a colorful harbinger of spring 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s what the darkness is obscuring – a blank place unmarred by romanticism and sentimentalism, the hard truth. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But he’s also put his foot wrong in conspicuous ways, such as trying to court Likud and Orthodox voters with religious sentimentalism. Benjamin Netanyahu Finally Faces a Real Challenger in Benny Gantz—If the Opposition Can Unite Behind Him 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It was partly this worry that emotional fatigue could undermine our morals that led Immanuel Kant to abandon sentimentalism for an ethics based in reason – a more objective alternative, at least in theory. Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z "Enough of this soppiness," a side character says at one point, armoring herself and the movie against the sentimentalism that threatens to creep in. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z “Enough of this soppiness,” a side character says at one point, armoring herself and the movie against the sentimentalism that threatens to creep in. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z But his success was rooted in the assured way he delivered the news — with empathy but no sentimentalism or ideology. Opinion | On and off camera, Jim Vance will be missed 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z If Austria is best-known for schmaltzy sentimentalism and a refusal to acknowledge its Nazi heritage, the capital city of Vienna is celebrated for its Habsburg-era decadence. Navigating Vienna’s Imperial Past — Through Pastries 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Jack Engle,” the story of an orphan’s adventures, can be classified as sentimentalism, Turpin said. University of Houston doctoral candidate finds Whitman novel 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z He also brings to the table a subtly sardonic attitude that helps cut through the sentimentalism that creeps in around the edges of his movies, including “The Rookie” and “The Blind Side.” Michael Keaton reveals the face of American greed in the shrewd McDonald's drama 'The Founder' 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z One way to understand the up-is-down logic of this election is as an expression of what might be called American sentimentalism. How Can Americans Trust Donald Trump? 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The circus elements beloved by the Italian film-maker are all present – the barrel-house music, the burlesque comedy, the soppy southern European sentimentalism. How Argentina’s gravel-voiced crooner put the soul back into tango for the rap generation 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z He called “Little Secret” an “ocean of clichés and sentimentalism.” Brazilian Politics Smother a Film’s Oscar Ambitions 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Rather, Ludwigson’s unidealistic tone spares his work the cloying grip of sentimentalism, while the square framing carries a distinct sense of modernity. Balls and Bulldust: the raw 1980s photos of cattle stations that time almost forgot 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “I’ve been doing a lot of research on the idea of ‘cute’ and the way the regime there is always sugar-coated with flowers and sentimentalism always fascinated me.” From an Instagram hoax to a holiday in Pyongyang 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z I understood neither the fury nor sentimentalism of this Sunday morning e-missive. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace Despite his emotional investment in Tibet, Buckley’s prose is not weighed down by sentimentalism. Book review: ‘Meltdown in Tibet,’ on China’s eco-destruction, by Michael Buckley 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z But Momo’s arguments and nominal adventures with her annoying otherworldly cohorts quickly pall before giving way to a maudlin, mewling sentimentalism. ‘A Letter to Momo’ movie review: Lyrical, delicate, but fatally glum The deals shows that while there is clearly no room for sentimentalism in the U.S. newspaper business, there is plenty of room and hope for sentimental capitalism. Raju Narisetti on Washington Post’s sale and the future of news 2013-08-07T15:03:20Z In the end, political 'sentimentalism' prevailed even in Germany over economic rationality - last but not least because of the corresponding promises made by Kohl to Mitterrand in the context of Mitterrand's agreement to German unification. The EU summit: The red-eyed walk to banking union 2012-10-19T03:40:40Z One of the ironies of Instagram's instant success - and its subsequent price tag - is that its allure for users is partly due to sentimentalism. Is technology killing the lure of company heritage? 2012-08-27T22:22:11Z Conservative MP Nick Boles is also urging a significant further scaling back of tax credits and housing benefit, and a re-examination of the "lazy sentimentalism" of the Sure Start programme of children's centres. 'Scrap pensioner benefits' - MP 2012-07-09T19:08:23Z It is time for parents to cease passing this thing by as a mere piece of sentimentalism and to begin to do the fair thing by their girls. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Probably, however, the imputation of sentimentalism repels fewer readers from Sterne to-day than that of immorality. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Others were ambivalent: the Washington Post columnist David S. Broder said the demonstrations might help prod the administration to the bargaining table, but he described them as verging on “liberal sentimentalism run amok.” Roger C. Molander Dies at 71; Stirred Nuclear Protests 2012-03-31T18:26:30Z Such love will be above the mere pleasing of men, above sentimentalism and indulgence; it will aim higher than secular ideals and temporal contentment. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z And are men and women so inthralled by the molasses of sentimentalism in life? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Like men of this temperament in every age, he surrenders to emotion, and emotion declines into sentimentalism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Alike in religious and political life he was impatient of sentimentalism, of rhetorical feeling, of wordy enthusiasm. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The words "absurd," "infidel," "blasphemous," "shallow philosophy," "sickly sentimentalism," and the like, are among the favorite missiles of these defenders of the truth. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z We suppose it is sentimentalism to record these facts. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It's only too easy to write for those avid of sentimentalism, or to express what Thomas Huxley calls "sensualistic caterwauling." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z There was no sentimentalism in it; it was the spirit of Jesus spiritualizing and transforming and extending the natural instinct of brotherliness by making it theocentric. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In short, Margaret often loses herself in sentimentalism; that dangerous vertigo nature, in her case, adopted, and was to make respectable.... Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But this refinement of sentiment comes perilously near to sentimentalism. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Some, I know, will think this a weak sentimentalism, or even a sinful tolerance of superstition. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z A noble testimony like this far outweighs all the cant of a whining sentimentalism. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z It is only the sentimentalism of the church that supposes the flabby-minded to be at home in the Kingdom of God. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Weak, dependent, dreamy men he had no patience with; sentimentalism was his aversion; the moral element alone commanded his absolute respect. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The licentiousness of that age expresses itself in tones of refinement; it associates itself with sentimentalism in literature; it was reduced to system and carried out as the serious business of life. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z All these considerations render the idea of a “Peace without victory” worse than a mere disgusting piece of sentimentalism. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z If their sentimentalism is sometimes wearisome, it is grounded on genuine feeling and expressed with passionate eloquence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z But sentimentalism is essentially self-deception; and the Gospels make it clear that of all human sins and weaknesses none seems to have stirred the anger of Jesus as did self-deception. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The whole picture disposes you to weep, not from sentimentalism, but from real sympathy. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Sentiment has degenerated into sentimentalism, courage into a reckless gambling for honours, statesmanship into politics, oratory into verbosity. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z In politics he was an enemy of sentimentalism and loose theories in government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z "Take a cigar to close your lips!" cried the chairman, who was weary of the sentimentalism of the one and the everlasting jests of the other. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Here the Divine Word has a voice for us—a voice too much neglected because identified either with a perplexing theological system or a shallow sentimentalism. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z But the truly mystical must be a protest alike against a narrow juiceless intellectualism, against a narrow moralistic rigorism, and against a blind and spineless sentimentalism. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z This may be a sentimentalism, and obscure, but there it is, and as it puzzles me I shall try to get to the bottom of it.... The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Then the nucleus of what was to become Neale hardened itself against this easy, inverted sentimentalism, and small as the nucleus was, it set itself to consider the matter in judicial, objective judgment. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Ann loved nature; but she had such a dread of sentimentalism that she seldom expressed herself freely. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Away with the folly and the puny sentimentalism from which it springs! The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z The later productions of this school sank more and more into sentimentalism and allegorical and fanciful play of words. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z And did the other think to throw dust in his eyes with such mawkish sentimentalism—to evade this old tacit obligation by a flimsy pretence of moral scruple? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z You are young and have a healthy animal appetite; but why deck sentimentalism on your horns? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z There is a temptation of the opposite kind: the temptation to what I may briefly call sentimentalism. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Now and then some one argues with the keeper, assuring him that they do not touch game, but this he regards as pure sentimentalism. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z All preaching and teaching were avowedly directed to the awakening of pious feelings of love to God, and thus tended to foster a kind of religious sentimentalism. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z We disregard the religious appeal as pure sentimentalism, or worse, and we at once institute an ethical sentimentalism which is, in practice, foredoomed to failure. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z The simple explanation of Japanese sentimentalism may be found in one of the original race stocks which migrated from southern islands of tropical climate, where emotion rather than will guides the conduct of the people. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z This doctrine is often stated very illogically, and would sanction a great deal of false sentimentalism. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z The whole British middle class would make war to-morrow to satisfy a sentimentalism which the Latin peoples regard as exclusively their own. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z And give you, mix'd with western sentimentalism, Some samples of the finest orientalism. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z One of the great obstacles in the way of this is the sentimentalism of many who have given up all intellectual adherence to the Christian creed. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z We have far too much of indifference; too much of dogma; too much of silly sentimentalism; too much mysticism; too much morbid faith. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z They were cool, unimpassioned, scientific; sentimentalism they abjured; enthusiasm to them was folly. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z The Christianity of the camp is no pious sentimentalism, no sweet dream or unvirile worship of a "gentle Jesus." Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z To him the Ridge stood for messy sentimentalism, Utopian idealism. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Arthur was feverish and edited; with all the instincts of a contradictory nature, his easy sentimentalism dreaded, while his combative principles longed for, this interview. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z In human nature it remains—chiefly because of undue sentimentalism. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z This feeling is, however, always guarded by a marked reticence from sentimentalism. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z They will purge the leaders in every profession of all softness and sentimentalism, and lift them above a great danger in peace times, that of living a ghastly, smooth life, dead at heart. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z This, too, has for centuries been the Church's attitude towards music, and has prevented it from falling into sentimentalism, and consequently into individualism. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z His children will elicit as much love and admiration and interest as now, together with a great deal more knowledge and a great deal less silly, mannish sentimentalism. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Closely akin to that instability of inter-association resulting in loss of proper checks on action in the types just described, is the sentimentalism which often covers real hardness, but which charms and allures the mass. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The Hague idea is pure sentimentalism,—if sentimentalism can ever be said to be pure. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Do not confound sentiment with sentimentalism, and do not hesitate to praise a thing or an act if it is really worthy of it. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Activity will never keep her from happiness, but it will keep her from byways and stumbling-blocks, from the traps which Nature never set, but which a sentimentalism, born of selfishness, has put in her path. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Many will think this merely sentimentalism, but I know it is the most solid of facts. The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion 2011-04-01T02:00:42.513Z Oddly enough, Professor Huvelius wrote the most cynical book in the world—Hobbes preaches rosy sentimentalism in comparison—with the very highest motives. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z But it remains the workingman's classic philippic, one of the most trenchant recitals of social wrongs, because it blends, with the illogical terminology of sentimentalism, the assurance of hope. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Those who cherish unhealthy sentimentalism on this subject would do well to brace themselves up by reading a little of the robust common sense of Dr. Johnson. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z For poetic effect, we admire the sublime sentimentalism of Milton:— “Earth felt the wound; and Nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.” The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The many poems, stories and plays about "mother," "baby," "the flag," "home," "our country," etc., are often drivelling sentimentalism and not poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z "We mustn't degenerate into sentimentalism just because we're glad to see each other," she said so calmly that he did not notice the tremor in her voice. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Don't stultify your womanhood with a sentimentalism which is the curse of your sex. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z "Then, in the years that follow, you will often remember that night in Tibet when the Swaying Cobra might have offered you the wealth of an empire ... and perhaps you will regret your Anglo-Saxon sentimentalism." Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z It's kind of a Norman Rockwell moment, it's all about sentimentalism which really is at the core of most sports. Winter Classic turns into overnight success for league 2010-12-31T22:11:14Z In Professor William A. Neilson's Essentials of Poetry, there is an interesting chapter on sentimentalism in poetry, in which the author dwells on the sentimentalism in the poetry of the English Romantic School. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His “substitute for religion” is a doctrine in many points akin to Comte and Feuerbach, the former of whom he resembles in his sentimentalism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z For environmentalists it is a symbol of success, and for industry apologists, a shameful example of shoddy sentimentalism influencing policy. Conservatives Blame Environmentalists for Bedbugs 2010-09-08T15:00:00Z "I know what you are thinking: that you will refuse to work with me because—because of a foolish Anglo-Saxon sentimentalism!" Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Put aside sentimentalism about purple-wrapped chocs and even the fate of workers caught up here: in hard financial logic this pay rise is ridiculous. Views on the news: A tough crowd to please 2010-04-01T09:29:00Z We should be on our guard, however, in regarding sentimentalism as poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Shallow sentimentalism may not so esteem it, but we need give little thought to shallow sentimentalism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The man who has work to do in the world has no greater enemy than this shifting sentimentalism. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Rather proud, I fancied, but thoroughly free from nonsense and silly sentimentalism.” Dolly's College Experiences I think it's all a piece of sentimentalism. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Most certainly there can be no great poetry where the sentimentalism is forced, where it becomes ridiculous, where it bubbles over and becomes monotonous. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z My dear fellow, in this humid air of American sentimentalism, we are not permitted to talk rationally about woman. A Yankee from the West A Novel There is nothing of namby-pamby sentimentalism in Miss Addams’s idea of the peace movement. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey She subjected the attitude of the members of the organization to an examination, and found it tainted with sentimentalism. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism Any pity for Barnes was a base sentimentalism; it was merely a reaction of personal discomfort at having seen an unpleasant operation. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Sentimentalism often characterizes popular poetry and if the public is likely to err in judging poetry it is particularly likely to confuse sentimentalism with normal human emotions. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z I should have expected from the intelligence and judgment of our citizens that they would have deferred neither to the sickly sentimentalism of a bigoted morality nor to the absurdity of obsolete dogmas. The Progressionists, and Angela. Idealism, sentimentalism, other names for ignorance of life, clashed in his self-conscious brain without producing light. A Bed of Roses It is this sentimentalism that is abhorrent to us. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism Ignorance, bigotry, hypocrisy, sentimentalism—such things have no part in your life. The Book of Susan A Novel The tenderness of the Buddhist towards the lower creation is not due to sentimentalism, nor is it necessarily a sign of sensitiveness of feeling. The Vagabond in Literature The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood were trying to lead Englishmen out of the "sloshy" bread-and-butter school of sentimentalism to what they called "truth" in subject and execution. Lafcadio Hearn He was a stranger to the greatest glory in life, the flights of a soaring soul, and anathematized them by the words "romance" and "sentimentalism." On the Heights A Novel That Miss Edgeworth was not affected by the current sentimentalism of the period, the above remark shows. Maria Edgeworth He was more studious of the proprieties than most of his contemporaries, but has indulged in a somewhat unhealthy sentimentalism. A Short History of French Literature Her partner was romantic, without sentimentalism; serious, and yet full of imagination. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. A strange trait of sentimentalism stuck fast to me, however. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine "As you please," said he courteously, although, at heart, angry at this everlasting sentimentalism. On the Heights A Novel Deeply and genuinely as many of them disliked Ibsen’s works, they found, when they returned to the old-fashioned play, the adapted frivolity or the homegrown sentimentalism, that they disliked this still more. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Out of the sentimentalism of the Locke-Richardson-Rousseau school was evolved a type of womanhood which, during the second half of the eighteenth century, made the world purer and better. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) We would guard our readers against giving way to mawkish sentimentalism; that it is not our aim to excite. The Night Side of London A healthy human civilisation was not perhaps to be looked for in countries which have been alternately the prey of avarice, ambition, and sentimentalism. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses This is not the moment to recall that the phrase social democracy has had in France many significations from 1837 to 1848, all of which were based upon a vague sentimentalism. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History After seeing the world and going his own way, I really thought he would outgrow that sort of moody sentimentalism, but it seems to be returning. The Mountain Girl His sentimentalism, however, had its remarkable counterpoise in a most practical tendency of mind. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 She had touched, with the unerring instinct of a clever woman, his imagination, his masculine pride and the profound sentimentalism of his race towards her sex. Command Conventionality, routine and sentimentalism take the place of the fresh vigor which always accompanies profound conviction. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance They thought his sentimentalism would soon be wearisome to Stella. The "Genius" Allowing some license for the mountaineer’s irreverence, his whimsical fancies, and his scorn of sentimentalism, it must be said that his descriptive terms are usually apposite and sometimes felicitous. Our Southern Highlanders There was too much sentimentalism in politics, with too little reference of current questions to underlying principles, too little effort to get down to what Americans call the “hard pan” of facts. Studies in Contemporary Biography When the emotions are overfed the result is a wild and sickly sentimentalism, a neurotic religion. The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 It has drowned the most heavenly ecstacies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. Manifesto of the Communist Party Such reflections were mere sentimentalism, unless attended by such corollaries as these: 1st. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. And it is quite obvious that he was becoming more and more irritated by the sentimentalism and dress-parade revolutionism of the socialist sects. Violence and the Labor Movement And sentimentalism has, in private prose, an infinitely less provocative character than when it is displayed in published verse. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The foundational theme of his work is an overwhelming love for mankind, a plea for solidarity which too often degenerates into sickly sentimentalism. Ivory Apes and Peacocks But then, when the starving man is on at the Aquarium, we—that is to say, the humane public—are apt to give way to mere maudlin sentimentalism, and hope he is cheating. When Ghost Meets Ghost Mrs. Rose seems to have been a lady of a singularly fine mind—though a little touched, mayhap, by the prevailing sentimentalism of the age. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. We have outgrown so much of the sentimentalism of Love that muddle-headed moderns imagine that we have outgrown Love itself. An Ocean Tramp If hers had been a susceptible musical temperament, she would have gone quite crazy with the blunders and sentimentalisms of young girls. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Scratch the sentimentalism and æstheticism of a German, and you come upon a pedant. Ivory Apes and Peacocks He carried among them no sentimentalism nor moralizing; spoke not to any man of his "sins," but gave something good to eat, a buoying word, or a trifling gift and a look. Whitman A Study Rousseau, moreover, was more decidedly a sentimentalist than Cowper, if by sentimentalism we mean that disposition which makes a luxury of grief, and delights in poring over its own morbid emotions. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Mr. Adams said he had no time for maudlin sentimentalism or petticoat sophistry. Carmen Ariza But getting married and living together soon cures them of sentimentalism.” That Mother-in-Law of Mine I care nothing for the sentimentalism you are talking now. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author The sentiment for nature which has been so assiduously cultivated in our times is fast undergoing this change, and is softening into sentimentalism toward the lower animals. Ways of Nature He can indulge his feelings without introducing the false note of sentimentalism, or condescending to tone his pictures with rose-colour. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The maudlin sentimentalism of such as you make us all suffer!” he exclaimed with a gesture of disgust. Carmen Ariza But here, alas, as in so many other cases, the voice of reason is drowned in the chorus of sentimentalism. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Dr. Maclaren, who comes second, is on a lower level, and the next descent to Mr. Price Hughes is a fall into a slough of incapable and reckless sentimentalism. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The reference in the resolution to the approaching completion of the century has since been playfully characterized as a bit of "sentimentalism." A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer But Rousseau's artificial and self-conscious simplicity expressed that vague yearning and spirit of unrest which could generate a half-sensual sentimentalism, but could be repelled by genuine sentiment. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) “And that is love’s counterfeit, self-love, sentimentalism, sex-mesmerism, and all that,” she added. Carmen Ariza The Stoics were on the right track after all, while Christianity lost itself in idle sentimentalism. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Possibly the colony system would make that population mutually self-supporting and also remove the current sentimentalism against long isolation of the incurables. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 No sentimentalism can save us; we must give our consent to this sacrifice of women as necessary to the welfare and stability of society. The Truth About Woman Hypocrisy, cruelty, avarice, and lust have to be stamped out by hard blows, not cured by delicate infusion of graceful sentimentalisms. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) You see, Lafelle, I look upon religion with the eye of the cold-blooded business man, without the slightest trace of sentimentalism. Carmen Ariza The hard-headed judge means the sentimentalism and "pathetic exaggerations" of the Sermon on the Mount, which he has since distinctly said would destroy society if they were fully practised. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The Entombment.highest perfection, by their opposition to the morbid and vulgar sentimentalism of Correggio. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) The ascetic sentimentalism which results from this has a strong element of suggestion which is bad to cultivate. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But the depth and sincerity of feeling which explains his marvellous intensity of pathos is sometimes a pleasant relief to the sentimentalism of his greater predecessor. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) To be on 20 such terms of intimacy with Him as this girl Carmen is––in thought, at least––would be regarded to-day as evidence of sentimentalism and weakness.” Carmen Ariza The sentimentalism of "popular" and "advanced" Christianity is turning Jesus Christ into a hero of romance. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Anyhow, certain it is that no citizen of Suffering Creek would, even when thoroughly drunk, have accused Bill of any leaning towards sentimentalism or chivalry. The Twins of Suffering Creek Why had he tied himself to such a duty from a motive of silly sentimentalism? The Vagrant Duke This sentimentalism, says Bodenstedt, is as unknown as it is unintelligible to the Oriental poet. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Goethe had long since outlived the extravagance of sentimentalism which overflowed in "Werther." Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History He was disgusted not only by their sentimentalism but by their vulgarity and their ridicule of all that he respected. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice As humor is the deadly foe to sentimentalism and hysterics, the Richardson school were equally averse to it on further grounds. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 I believe there may well be grave penalties in store for the reckless commercialized exploitation of human emotions in the cheap sentimentalism of our moving pictures. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Yet there was no sentimentalism in his dealings with his tenants, as we find him holding them to a strict accounting for the use made of their improved conditions. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History For a good hater is the next best thing to a true friend; and Cassius's honest gushing malice is surely better than Brutus's stabbing sentimentalism. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar She devoted her spare time in earlier years and almost her whole time in later life to labours among the poor, but was never tempted to mere philanthropic sentimentalism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice This judgment, not of "sentimentalism" but of science, finds powerful but literally accurate expression in the saying of a great living thinker, "Life without work is guilt, work without art is brutality." The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production His playing shows him to be a careful, conscientious student, possessed of real musical sensibility, without any of the nauseous sentimentalism so common among young players. Music and Some Highly Musical People Yet these were the people so hated and ridiculed by the press and the pulpit, whose grand utterances and spicy debates were stigmatized as "the maudlin sentimentalisms of unsexed men and women." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I drop the hand, instinctively steeling myself against all show of sympathy with this boyish sentimentalism. Under the Southern Cross Nor, in spite of a reservation or two against 'sentimentalism,' does he fail to show hearty sympathy with the process of improvement. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice It was neither the time nor the place for any show of sentimentalism. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea These ideas will not suit the puling sentimentalism of the boudoir and the boarding-school. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The experience of the heroines of anti-slavery show that no finespun sentimentalism in regard to woman's position in the clouds ever exempt her from the duties or penalties of a citizen. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It must be admitted that the sentimentalism of the minneservice, peculiar to the middle ages, never took root in Jewish soil. Jewish Literature and Other Essays It is enough to say that his antipathy to sentimentalism, and to the want of high patriotic spirit in the Manchester school of politics, blends with a rather contemptuous attitude towards the parliamentary system. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Passion and sentimentalism were to him a nuisance. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. And, even if all this admiration did have in it much of youthful sentimentalism, it took nothing from his efficiency when he came to his place on the firing line. Winning the Wilderness What they call sentimentalism is greater sensibility, greater sympathy, a keener sense of justice. The New Theology Thousands of girls go queer because they're forced to by starvation—" "Nonsense!" cried Athalie hotly, "that is all stage twaddle and exaggerated sentimentalism! Athalie The 'little Nell' sentimentalism and the long gallery of melodramatic deathbeds disgusted him, while the assaults upon the governing classes generally stirred his wrath. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice There are in this people two strains of brutality and sentimentalism which I do not understand, especially where they mingle; but I am fairly sure they both work back to the dim democratic origin. What I Saw in America He was often called cynical but that was not true—he was far too dispassionate, too little of a sentimentalist to be tempted by inverted sentimentalism. When Winter Comes to Main Street Merely sentimentalism With a dash of egotism Somewhat mixed with mysticism. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse Subjectivism has three great branches,—we may call them scientificism, sentimentalism, and sensualism, respectively. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Partly from pugnacity and partly from contempt of sentimentalism, he manages to put the harsher side of his opinions in front. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice I do not profess to understand this singularly dark and intricate matter; and I see no use in men who have no solution filling up the gap with sentimentalism. What I Saw in America A young man, just from his university, inherits a shoe factory which, being imbued with college-settlement sentimentalism, he attempts to operate in accordance with the new religion. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Realism was a reaction against sham and falsity and sentimentalism, and, above all, perhaps, triviality of theme. Penguin Persons & Peppermints She said that without sentimentalism, without making it a plea for sympathy; she had better sense, he saw, than to imagine that she could arouse sympathy on that ground. No Clue A Mystery Story The hatred for 'sentimentalism' and 'vague generalities' and the indifference to mere poetical and literary interests were common to both. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice In short Mr. Bilge's usefulness consists in being useful to Mr. Bilge, and all the rest is illusion and sentimentalism. What I Saw in America Then came your opposition to my crusade against the sentimentalism of the day. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance In the brief space of two years Sterne’s sentimentalism had come into its own. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Of Mayfield, one of his friends, who twenty years afterwards accompanied him there to see it, remarks on the small, solitary, and now wretched-looking cottage, where all the fine "orientalism" and "sentimentalism" had been engendered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 It was a period of sickly sentimentalism in which he began to write; men drew tears frequently and mechanically then, as they drew corks. Washington Irving The sentimentalism of the epoch did its part, and accentuated the desire to carry out personal tastes rather than build on traditionally accepted lines. Royal Palaces and Parks of France I have tried to show how from one ideal to another mankind has passed to this present sham ideal, or no-ideal, wherein it welters as in a sea of boundless sentimentalism. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Its importance as a document in the history of sentimentalism is rather as an example of tendency than as a force contributing materially to the spread of the movement. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Love is dwelt upon as the chief attribute of God, but it is degraded to a weak sentimentalism, making little distinction between good and evil. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan We are having too much of this sentimentalism nowadays. The Gospel of the Hereafter Macaulay takes all this as mere sentimentalism and preference of a picturesque outside to solid comfort. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Clavering, whose ancestors had fought in every war in American history, had enlisted in 1917 with neither sentimentalism, enthusiasm, nor resentment. Black Oxen Gellert had spread his own sort of religious and ethical sentimentalism among the multitudes of his devotees. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century She read everything—from the lacy sentimentalism of Myrtle Read to Samuel Butler and translations of Gorky and Flaubert. The Job An American Novel The Romanticists were the exponents of an absolute sentimentalism. The Approach to Philosophy Like them, he was on his guard against 'sentimentalism' and 'vague generalities,' and thought that a hasty benevolence was apt to aggravate the evils which it attacked. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Fastidious critics might discover in it some mixture of weak sentimentalism, or a few traces of Dickensian affectation and cheap tricks in story-telling. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The character of Selmann is a compound of Yorick and the elder Shandy, with a tinge of satiric exaggeration, meant to chastise the thirst for “originals” and overwrought sentimentalism. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Emotion in less tragic circumstances they rarely convey; and when they attempt it they are prone to stumble into an unimpressive sentimentalism. Renée Mauperin The gentleman from Ohio refers in strong terms to what he calls the sentimentalism of the North. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He defends Malthus against the 'execrations' of sentimentalism. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Whence proceed that morbid sensitiveness, that sickly sentimentalism, and that puny selfishness, which sometimes mark the delicate woman? The Young Maiden Satire on sentimentalism is further unmistakable in the two maidens, Adelheid and Kunigunde, who weep over a dead butterfly, and write a lament over its demise. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century How fictitious, how unbusiness-like, how preposterous in the sight of God is this internecine sectarianism and impotent sentimentalism where there might be the triumphant march of one army under one flag! Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The command "love your enemies" is not a hard impossibility on the one hand, nor a soft piece of sentimentalism on the other. Practical Ethics Thompson had a common ground with the Utilitarians, though they undoubtedly would consider his logic to be loose and overridden by sentimentalism. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Lives there the man, who commends this wretched sentimentalism? The Young Maiden The satire on sentimentalism is purposeful, the imitation and adaptation of the whimsical and original is half-unconscious, and bespeaks admiration and commendation. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Coincident with the political speculation of the eighteenth century appeared the storm and stress of romanticism and sentimentalism. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Unless held in check by intellectual culture, an excess of sensibility is likely to degenerate into sentimentalism. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The same view appears in Mill's characteristic dislike of 'sentimentalism.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Because we have witnessed, or read of, a silly sentimentalism, that affected its character, let us not straightway question the possibility of its existence in any one. The Young Maiden Allusion to Timme’s elucidation of this principle, which, though concealed, underlay much of the sentimentalism of this epoch, has already been made. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Who shall cast a stone at the shiftiness of a boy not yet nineteen, charged with such cares, yet consumed with ambition, and saturated with the romantic sentimentalism of his times? The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) In striking contrast to the rather vapid sentimentalism and abstract theorizing of many of the periodicals controlled by the Sinn Feiners was his own sheet, the Irish Volunteer. Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics Full of the affectation of a 'dandy,' he was yet rousing all Europe by a cry of pure sentimentalism. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The note of his writings had been common sense and rugged veracity; the dominant notes of theirs were picturesqueness, eloquence, emotion, even sentimentalism. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Hedemann’s book is conspicuous in its effort to be whimsical and is openly satirical in regard to the sentimentalism of former travelers. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century He meant intellectual hardness; the fact that the society avoided sentimentalism, and dealt in affirmations and not mere associations. A History of the United States He tells us of all this with a manliness and lack of sentimentalism which endears this book to me. Confessions of a Book-Lover His main purpose, too, was to lay down a rule of duty, almost mathematically ascertainable, and not to be disturbed by any sentimentalism, mysticism, or rhetorical foppery. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He remembered her as little and pleasantly pretty; her presence above them on the balcony had touched his German sentimentalism. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories A passage at the end of the appendix to the twelfth Reisebrief is further indication of his opposition to and his contempt for the frenzy of German sentimentalism. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century One has always the impression that the rationalist in him is deliberately repressing the mystic, lest his case be weakened by a suspicion of sentimentalism. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 He felt a profound revulsion from his own nature, which was flawed with this sentimentalism, this jejune expectancy. Sacrifice Poetry in general came within the sweep of his denunciations of 'sentimentalism' and 'vague generalities.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The excess of sentimentalism had given rise to the other extreme of naturalism. Mary Wollstonecraft It was not the age, nor was his the mind, for historic sentimentalism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It is disgraced by none of the flippant and irreverent sentimentalism which characterizes M. Renan. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy That's when the sentimentalism gushes out, at the end of long journeys, at the novelty of elegance and sophistication. Sacrifice Silly sentimentalism on my part, doubtless—but pity, nevertheless. Fair Harbor That which pedants of that time and this time would have called the sentimentalism of Dickens was really simply the detached sanity of Dickens. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The democracy of sentimentalism took the place that ought to have been filled in the literature of revolutionary preparation by the democracy of utility. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Do you say, "Oh, that was all sentimentalism, and romance, and a joke," and that "they all talk that way!" The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Enthusiasm does not necessarily connote hysteria or sentimentalism. Human Traits and their Social Significance The habit of keeping the eye on the subject, which is the essence of directness, discourages, and indeed excludes, conventionality, sentimentalism, fancifulness, which prevent a writer from seeing and recording life as it is. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield But if sentimentalism be held to mean something artificial or theatrical, then in the core and reality of his character Dickens was the very reverse of a sentimentalist. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Greuze at once exclaimed that he saw his subject; and we may at least admit that this pretty bit of commonplace sentimentalism is more in Diderot’s vein than pagan gods and goddesses. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Oh," I reply, "that was all right; that was sentimentalism, and romance, and a joke. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony It results in the hysteria or sentimentalism which adds to the real evils and difficulties of life fancied grievances and disasters. Human Traits and their Social Significance He chose to consider his inner stirrings of sentimentalism in the present case as due to a fancy for minor diplomacies and delicate negotiations. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage I know that he fell into some of the bad habits of aristocratic sentimentalism. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens But this, we may be sure, would be infinitely less potent than the motives that sprang from Diderot’s own sentimentalism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It must be noted, moreover, that a good deal of mere sentimentalism or irrational selection had much to do with the movement of many Negroes from the South. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 It is unfortunate that there is no better term than sentimentalism with which to indicate that variety of formalism which is characteristic of the purposive economy. The Moral Economy Without any self-consciousness or display of sentimentalism, I find deep traces of this in many little poems or sketches which I wrote at that time, and which have now been forgotten. Memoirs They respected the one real feeling which had outlasted all his sentimentalism. Agatha's Husband A Novel It is sickly sentimentalism like yours which is filling the hospitals with hysterical patients. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Perhaps the religious sentimentalism of Western politicians was a revelation to French statesmen. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 This is the sentimentalism of those "Who sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies." The Moral Economy Rough, rude men as most of the Rangers are, little prone to delicate sentimentalism, they are, nevertheless, true to the ordinary instincts of humanity. The Lone Ranche Of course, this theory would be almost universally considered "sentimentalism"—Agatha's little infatuation being included therein; but the frequency of such infatuations existing in the world around us argues some truth at their origin. Agatha's Husband A Novel "How do you account for my sickly sentimentalism when I have no heart, as you told me the other day?" commented Winifred demurely, with downcast eyes. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes He represents, no doubt, a kind of sham sentimentalism with an insincerity which has disgusted many able critics. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century A second important case of sentimentalism is nationalism. The Moral Economy His greatest successes with the public were secured by "Poor Liza," and "Natálya, the Boyár's Daughter," which served as much-admired models for sentimentalism to succeeding generations. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The oldest—fifty years old—were love-letters, of the time when people wrote love-letters beginning "Honoured Miss," and "Dear and respected Sir," overlaying the plain heart-truth with no sentimentalisms of the pen. Agatha's Husband A Novel It is the first part of the doing away with rococo sentimentalisms, mediæval tatters, and all wretched and ragged remainders and reminders of states of society which have nothing in common with our present needs. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The substance, distinguished from the style, shows the sympathy with sentimentalism of which Rousseau was to be the great exponent. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century There will thus be a formalistic series of errors: asceticism, sentimentalism, anarchism, mysticism; and a materialistic series: overindulgence, sordidness, bigotry or egoism, worldliness. The Moral Economy Dmítrieff, while under the guidance of Karamzín, making sentimentalism the ruling feature in Russian epic and lyric poetry, perfected both the general style of Russian verse, and the material of the light, poetical language. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections A sentimentalism arose, which is in art what the metaphysical method is in philosophy. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron In connection with each of them has been exemplified the cruelty inherent in sentimentalism, when circumstances draw away the mask. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle That corresponds to the contrast between Richardson and Fielding; and may help to explain why the sentimentalism which Fielding despised yet corresponded to a vague feeling after a real element of interest. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century I refer to what is only a different aspect of that sentimentalism or chronic emotionalism to which I have already called attention. The Moral Economy It is a false sentimentalism which lives in the past, and lavishes its tenderness on memory. Friendship The public, with all its sentimentalisms, never fails to take the article, quality being equal, at the lowest price, and accordingly the leviathan dealer thrives, while nearly all the small dealers are extirpated. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 Thus do two opposite sentimentalisms divide opinion between them! Memories and Studies He preaches the morality of his time—the morality of Richardson and Young—only tempered by a hearty contempt for cant, sentimentalism, and all unreality, and expressing his deeper and stronger nature. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century When this fictitious value gives rise in contemplation or discourse to a certain emotional satisfaction, we employ the term "sentimentalism" in the conventional sense. The Moral Economy The enthusiastic pedant, with his narrow understanding, his thin purism, and his idyllic sentimentalism, found that the summoning archangel of his paradise proved to be a ruffian with a pike. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre I think that much of our literary impressionism and sentimentalism reveal the guessing habit. The Story of the Mind This is the problem that requires real expertness, and this is where the simple sentimentalisms of the spiritist and scientist leave us in the lurch completely. Memories and Studies One explanation is that Richardson is regarded as the inventor of 'sentimentalism.' English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century When he encouraged his admirably proper young ladies to indulge in 'sentimentalism,' he could not tell where so vague an impulse would ultimately land them. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Stripping the situation of all sentimentalism, the naked truth remained that she had for ten years given up her life utterly to her aunt—had almost sold herself into slavery. The Triflers And that is the sentimentalism of the wise. The Plum Tree It is easy enough to lose ourselves in a vague sentimentalism, and to believe that only our cramped conditions have hindered us from developing into something very wonderful. Joyous Gard Smiling half-scornfully at his new-found sentimentalism, he put the pieces into an empty cigarette tin, and thrust it into the top drawer of his table. The Great Amulet During the past thirty years, thousands of young men have entered the profession, who have been carefully educated to regard all criticism of animal experimentation as due to a sentimentalism worthy only of contempt. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals So, after all, his act had been one, not of sentimentalism, but of just plain gratitude. The Triflers Yet James Wait, afraid of death and making her his accomplice, was an impostor of some character—mastering our compassion, scornful of our sentimentalism, triumphing over our suspicions. Notes on My Books We hate all sentimentalism; but we bid you, in his own words, "With gentle hand Touch, for there is a spirit in the leaves." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 This kind of literature arouses in children premature fancies and queries, and fosters a sentimentalism which too often occasions most unhappy results. Plain Facts for Old and Young I took good care not to let the men know that I was ever moved by such sentimentalism. The Great War As I Saw It He had sent her violets; and yet, except for the fact that he had never before sent her flowers, he could not rightly be accused of sentimentalism. The Triflers The writings of Walter Scott put an end to this sentimentalism, and this is indeed their highest merit. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Pugnacity, declares my uncle, is a form of sentimentalism, and all sentimentalism is despicable. Modern American Prose Selections It is this superficial class of minds that most easily fall victims to a sickly sentimentalism, which readily leads to digressions from the pathway of rigid virtue. Plain Facts for Old and Young And with a sigh of unconquerable sentimentalism she seals her bargain on the man's lips. One Woman's Life That imaginary audience is always looking over his shoulder, applauding a good hit, chuckling over allusions to the last bit of scandal, and ridiculing any extravagance tending to romance or sentimentalism. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series In this quarrel one cannot wish Shaw even an inch less contemptuous, for the people who call compassion "sentimentalism" deserve nothing but contempt. George Bernard Shaw He is a sworn foe to "the traps that snare the attention from poor or mediocre workmanship—the traps of sentimentalism, of false feeling, of cheap pathos, of the cheap moral." A Book of Prefaces Her friendships wore a look of such romantic exaggeration that she seemed to walk enveloped in a shining fog of sentimentalism. The Friendships of Women It is very important to note that German savagery has not interfered at all with German sentimentalism. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Considering that the age of miracles is past, it was remarkable that twice in one day the Cool Captain should have approached so near to the verge of sentimentalism. Sword and Gown A Novel The truth is that he is a scornful realist who alone remains unaffected by the sentimentalism of the House of Commons. George Bernard Shaw It is just this widespread popularity of a master unrivalled in one line of devotional sentimentalism which makes the contrast between Perugino and the Baglioni family so striking. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The imagination, bound by no external laws, may form what rules it pleases, and may therefore lend itself to a refined selfishness, or to dreamy sentimentalism. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists He sees it through a halo of vague sexual sentimentalism. Post-Prandial Philosophy It is entirely nonsensical to speak of Ruskin as a lounging æsthete, who strolled into economics, and talked sentimentalism. The Victorian Age in Literature This method may be approximately defined as that of revolutionising the revolutionists by turning their rationalism against their remaining sentimentalism. George Bernard Shaw People who have rejected dogmatic religion, and retained only a residuum of religious sentimentalism, find a special field in the discussion of the rights of the poor and the duties of the rich. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other In former days people were less besmeared with sentimentalism. A Mummer's Tale Still more highly generalized is his Address to the Unco Guid, a plea for charity in judgment, kept from sentimentalism by its gleam of humor. Robert Burns How To Know Him There is in him no sentimentalism, no complaining of God, no impious, or at least weak and peevish, cry of “Why hast Thou made things thus?” Westminster Sermons with a Preface Whoever approaches him with weak sentimentalism will miss altogether his dignity and strength. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Are we to find the forebodings in the dreamy sentimentalism, which boasts so much its flights beyond common material ideas? The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society Yet James Wait, afraid of death and making her his accomplice was an impostor of some character—mastering our compassion, scornful of our sentimentalism, triumphing over our suspicions. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle This very genuine sentimentalism appears strange to us; we cannot enter into the feelings of that period. The Evolution of Love This points to the antipodal difference between the characters of these two poets, and explains in part why Goethe did not succumb to the sickly sentimentalism of which he rid himself in "Werther." Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry The Bolsheviks will have none of such sentimentalism. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism Himself not only the kindest, but also the most just and judicially-minded of men, he feared that a maudlin and misplaced sentimentalism would destroy the more virile elements in the national character. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 It triumphed through doubt, through stupidity, through pity, through sentimentalism. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle However, what Calabressa had declared himself ready to do, in a fit of wild sentimentalism, another had already done, in terrible earnest. Sunrise This demonstration of sentimentalism could not be tolerated in a family where the Purda is strictly observed and one or two elderly ladies tried to remonstrate. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition The crass sentimentalism by which we attempt to cover our paucity of craft ideals must also be eliminated. Craftsmanship in Teaching They are often shivered on the solid rock of preconceived prejudices, and genuine but ill-informed sentimentalism. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 But then the best authority, it seems to me, is either influenced unconsciously by disgust at Tate's sentimentalism or unconsciously takes that wider point of view. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth As a matter of fact, Janet had no mean ideas of design; but they were vigorous and, for her living, she had to struggle against the overwhelming sentimentalism of the nouveau art. Sally Bishop A Romance The energies of men run on such lines into "sickly sentimentalism" and "watery wishes," and nothing great issues out of our activities on the surface of life. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy This, mingled with some mawkish sentimentalism that passes under the name of inspiration. Craftsmanship in Teaching We do not preach that all is disappointment—the dreary creed of sentimentalism; but we preach that nothing here is disappointment, if rightly understood. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series He hated sentimentalism, facile yielding to shallow emotions. Poor Man's Rock Like thousands of other women, she believed that what the man had taken, that he would keep, because in the eyes of God and all the other phrases of romantic sentimentalism, they were one. Sally Bishop A Romance "Rank sentimentalism, Nan," he said coolly, as he dropped his hands from the keys. The Moon out of Reach It is more than the mere piece of sentimentalism which it may seem to some readers. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals It is a test, unembarrassed and complete, of genius, this treatment of grief, the emotion which least of all brooks exaggeration or sentimentalism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 "You make a natural sympathy appear wishy-washy sentimentalism." Poor Man's Rock Mystical preaching has the defects of its virtues and too often sinks into that vague sentimentalism which is the perversion of its excellence. Preaching and Paganism The cheap sentimentalism of parental relations has often been a favorite property with men of imaginative genius. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 With the fires out in hell, no wonder we have an age of sugar-candy morality and cheap sentimentalism. The Seeker No—something more is required than delicate, silky-handed reform; something more is required than ready-made blocks of neat dwellings; and something more is required than sighing sentimentalism, which looks at miserable effects without scrutinising causes. Side Lights His cruelty would be the cruelty of battle, and there might be a streak of sentimentalism hidden under the stiff and harsh German manner, like a vein of gold in rock. The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne So they frankly assert their choices along the lines of least resistance and abandon themselves, at least in principle, to emotional chaos and moral sentimentalism. Preaching and Paganism But sentimentalism, subtlest source of moral corruption, worked in him like that hectic disease that flames in the colors of life, flouting its wretched victim with an extravagant hope. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) The fear of the public, the lust of popularity, feminine prudery, sentimentalism, Victorian niceness—one or other of these things prevented honesty. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 English romanticism was but one among many contemporary tendencies: sentimentalism, naturalism, realism. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century I'm not fooled by the sentimentalism of the profession or the sniveling claims of being an apostle of public enlightenment. Success A Novel "This sacred theme is treated Scripturally and robustly without spurious sentimentalism." Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs For the rest we have to thank or blame the sentimentalism of Mr Matthew Arnold. The Open Secret of Ireland In France it began with sentimentalism, developing normally into homicidal mania. Outspoken Essays In Mrs. Radcliffe's romances we find a tone that is absent from Walpole's: romanticism plus sentimentalism. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century That would be a sort of weakly, sickly sentimentalism. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel I was arrested in the midst of my ecstatic sentimentalism by the sight of the Hall, the lights of which were distantly visible through the trees. The Jervaise Comedy Ireland, as we have seen, has had the misfortune to provoke many worthy writers to a sad debauch of sentimentalism. The Open Secret of Ireland He is a sentimentalist in the rationalistic century, not with the sentimentalism of misanthropy, such as fired or soured Rousseau, but social, large-hearted, many-sided, careless of the wise rigours of morality. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) How can we define in a sentence words like renaissance, philistine, sentimentalism, transcendental, Bohemia, pre-Raphaelite, impressionist, realistic? A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century You are confounded with the difference between sentimentalism and thought. The Colossus A Novel This theory, like the shallow sentimentalism which made an innocent saint and martyr of Mary Stuart, has never recovered from the crushing onslaught of Froude. The Life of Froude But while their sentimentalism was German, their realism was American. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Diderot's attachment to Grimm seems like an exaggeration of the excesses of the epoch of sentimentalism in Germany. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) You, in your turn, must acquit me of sentimentalism. A Christmas Garland There is no sentimentalism in this; only science. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It was with Miss Price now that Mr. Ramsay rode and walked and talked,—Miss Price, whose free-and-easiness, vapid chatter, artificiality, and sentimentalism contrasted unpleasantly with Bijou's frankness and sincerity. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 But why is that to be flung aside under the odd name of sentimentalism, while pessimist prophesying is to be taken for gospel? Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question For this is the worst of sentimentalism, that it is so readily bent into a substitution of indulgence to oneself for upright and manly judgment about others. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Thus that sentimentalism which may do and which has done harm to these great problems, and by which the people it is designed to help may be hindered rather than helped, is done away with. What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness Where the religion of the family does not move in the element of the church, it is at best but sentimentalism on the one hand, and rationalism on the other. The Christian Home In the Brother's opinion it enervated the soul, put religion into petticoats, created and fostered a state of sentimentalism quite unworthy of the strong. Abbe Mouret's Transgression And no false sentimentalism should be allowed to tamper with the thing done. The Mating of Lydia Grimm, however, knew better than Diderot how to unite German sentimentalism with a steady selfishness. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Adherence, therefore, to this great principle in its truest sense, instead of being a weak sentimentalism, is, we shall find, of all practical things the most intensely practical. What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness They do not involve the true idea of preparation, but have an air of mere sentimentalism about them. The Christian Home Moore’s vice is cautious, soft, seductive, slippery, and covered at times with a thin, tremulous veil of religious sentimentalism. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time No doubt a dash of constitutional sentimentalism gives colour to my theories. At a Winter's Fire In Scotland there has always been the party of Cavalier and White Rose sentimentalism. John Knox and the Reformation Would her friend Vivian have committed himself to the articles for only a foolish sentimentalism which the poor themselves repudiated?... V. V.'s Eyes The promptings of such sentimentalism are to permit children to do as they please, and to bring them up under the influence of domestic libertinism. The Christian Home Her morality upon the slavery question, too, impressed me as something far higher and deeper than the common sentimentalism of the day. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time She threw out the last words with a certain vehemence, as though eager to get away from any sentimentalism about herself. Marcella Don't feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. The California Birthday Book It was impossible for Carlisle not to contrast her aunt's flabby sentimentalism with her own and her mother's sane, brilliant ambitiousness. V. V.'s Eyes Ribera, emotional, dramatic, realistic, religious, could sound the chords of tenderness without the sentimentalism of Murillo. Promenades of an Impressionist It is a weak and dangerous sentimentalism which would protect a woman of commerce against the good name of any man. The Conqueror His sentimentalism appealed to a wide circle, but his was one of the tapers which were extinguished by Lowell. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature There was no sense, he told himself, in yielding to the sickly sentimentalism which had bewitched him for the past few days; he was ashamed of it, and would have no more of it. Ester Ried From these men, animated by selfishness, by jealousy, by greed for gain, by sentimentalism, or by hypocritical patriotism, Matius stands aloof, and stands perhaps alone. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature It is true, that the eulogy is merely sentimentalism, and is very different from the sincere and noble tribute which a good man renders to goodness. Sermons to the Natural Man Finally, to the coolly-scanning eye, her friendships wore a look of such romantic exaggeration, that she seemed to walk enveloped in a shining fog of sentimentalism. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II He often displays a sentimentalism which has not the ring of reality. Emerson and Other Essays In drawing the character "Julie," idealism and sentimentalism have full play. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty She loved him sincerely, with a degree of sentimentalism, if not with a profound passion. Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici Some theological schools are distinguished for their severity, and others for their sentimentalism. Sermons to the Natural Man But Burke had no puny sentimentalism, and none of the mere literary or romantic conservatism of men like Chateaubriand. Burke What a release indeed for everybody!—if people would only tell the truth, and not dress up their real feelings and interests in stale sentimentalisms. Missing In seeking to rescue it, the great criticist, piloted by the moral law, steered his course between the rocks of rationalism, sentimentalism, and scepticism. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English It contains an appreciable quantity of what strikes me as feeble sentimentalism, and also a lot of sheer dogma. The Human Machine This we see in Torquemada, where the genius of Victor Hugo shows us how a man may send his fellows to the stake out of charity and sentimentalism. Recollections of My Youth This conviction makes him a stalwart enemy of sentimentalism, which is so fiercely satirized in "Sandra Belloni" in the persons of the Pole family. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities When both animals were fed she watched the television but its senseless action and its fictitious and ludicrous sentimentalism were putting her into a numb and depressed apathy. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Because it is based on knowledge it is not subject to be swept away by the sweet breezes of sentimentalism. Our Lady Saint Mary A natural human reaction, this, against the excessive sentimentalism of the Victorian era! The Regent Even when Swinburne was writing out of his personal experience, he contrived somehow to empty his verse of personality and to put sentimentalism and rhetoric in its place. Old and New Masters Her eyes shone dark with those fluttering, sweet wraiths of thoughts which we may not prison in speech, which words only deaden and crush into vapid sentimentalism. Starr, of the Desert Just how melodramatic his sentimentalism forces him to be has often been overlooked because of his diction and his pictures. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) It is no empty form of words when we call her mother, no exaltation of sentimentalism. Our Lady Saint Mary You came because of that one weak soft spot of sentimentalism there is in all of you, the strongest, the hardest. Witness for the Defense "Oh, don't do that," urged Asako, her English sentimentalism flooding back across her mind. Kimono The islanders will not be controlled by sentimentalism. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Patriotism and jingoism, altruism and imperialism, passion and sentimentalism shook the temper which had been slowly stiffening since the Civil War. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) You can if you like, in condemnatory accents, call that element sentimentalism, although it is not that but the exercise of those gentler elements of our nature without whose exercise our nature functions one-sidedly. Our Lady Saint Mary There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 He is almost always at high pressure, and, in spite of a certain force of thought and expression, is tinged decidedly and sometimes unpleasantly with sentimentalism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 "Drives under the acacias!" echoes Frank, dropping his accent of sentimentalism, and speaking rather sharply. Nancy Such robust doctrine is a long way from the customary sentimentalism of novelists about maids, wives, mothers, and widows. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Meanwhile, however, that fragile abode of sentimentalism—that frame which had just been "torn to pieces" by the feelings—was becoming weaker than its owner supposed. Sterne A soul full of healthy and noble sentiment left no room for sentimentalism. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" His affection for his family was three-fourths sentimentalism. The Three Brontës Art was then no adjunct of sentimentalism, no encourager of idleness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 The conclusions of these novels, which to thousands of readers have seemed stern and terrible, are in reality terrible chiefly because they are soft—soft with a sentimentalism swathed in folds of piety. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Strange indeed, when one considers a little, is that fallacy of sentimentalism which calls science the enemy of love. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays "That's different," said Arthur, restraining the impulse to reason with his illogical father whose antiquated sentimentalism was as unfitted to the new conditions of American life as were his ideas about work. The Second Generation Simple and beautiful souls, they never for a moment suspected that his worst vice was sentimentalism. The Three Brontës Both poets are salutary in the strong and biting antidote they bring to sentimentalism in thought and melodious facility in writing. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Mr. Allen approves of this immoral arithmetic with a sentimentalism which has drawn rains of tears down thoughtless cheeks. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) They liked sentiment run out into sentimentalism, fluency, point, plenty of illustration, and knock-down argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Philip was getting into a dangerous mood with his sentimentalism. Malbone: an Oldport Romance What was left to her had no outlet; pent up in her, it bred weak, anaemic substitutes for its natural issue, sentimentalism for passion, and sensibility for the nerves of vision. The Three Brontës This may sound like sentimentalism; but you cannot conceive the effect of looking on the last of a race once the owners of all this land, and now utterly gone. Letters from the Cape His later books tend to be turgid, oppressive, cloying with sentimentalism and amorous obsessions in their graver moments, and in their lighter moments to fall flat from a lack of the true sinews of comedy. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) If he can be educated to think clearly, concisely, and logically, freed of his habit of taking refuge in platitudes and prejudices and sentimentalisms, then I'm a militant Socialist. This Side of Paradise Thus to the wretched, sick, and poor did he address himself, but not as a moralist, and without a trace of sentimentalism. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature As for his verse—that formless, fluent gush of sentimentalism—it might have passed as an error of his youth, but for poor Leyland's comments on its majesty and beauty. The Three Brontës It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. The Communist Manifesto Is this merely a return to their villages, merely domestic sentimentalism in a lovely guise? Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Still I am no sentimentalist; I have a contempt for, and even a dread of, sentimentalism. Tracks of a Rolling Stone I suppose they were exercising and developing their racial sentimentalism by the means of that dummy. Falk A Reminiscence Thus that sympathy with the small or the defeated as such, with which we Liberals and Nationalists have been often reproached, is not a useless sentimentalism at all, as Mr. Wells and his friends fancy. Heretics The man, a compound of coarse brutality and shrewd cunning, was at heart lazy and selfish, the woman a spoilt child, in whom a real want of feeling was supplied by a shallow sentimentalism. A Book of Remarkable Criminals Hence this lamentable outbreak of sentimentalism, which has rendered socialism so insipid to positive minds, and which, spreading the absurdest delusions, makes so many fresh dupes every day. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Trilling charged Anderson with indulging a vaporous sentimentalism, a kind of vague emotional meandering in stories that lacked social or spiritual solidity. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life He could look into their eyes without trouble; and he was not withheld, by any bashful sentimentalism, from recognising what he saw there and unsparingly putting it down upon the canvas. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Everywhere the robust and uproarious humour has come from the men who were capable not merely of sentimentalism, but a very silly sentimentalism. Heretics Stoicism is the direct product of sentimentalism; and schoolboys are sentimental individually, but stoical collectively. Alarms and Discursions The crucifix itself is nothing, a factory-made piece of sentimentalism. Twilight in Italy Dreaming wanes into sentimentalism, and sentimentalism is fatal to action. The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men As for the villain Franz, with his abysmal depravity, and Amalia, with her witless sentimentalism, we find it hard to take them seriously; they do not produce a good illusion. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Here we have a state of things which no man in his senses would ever dream of wishing to continue if he had not been bewitched by the sentimentalism of the mere word "union." Heretics Now it would really be hard to find a worse case of this inconsequent sentimentalism than the theory of the British Empire advanced by Mr. Roosevelt himself in his attack on Sentimentalists. Alarms and Discursions Hemsterhuis believed beauty to be a phenomenon arising from the meeting by the sentimentalism, which gives multiplicity, with the internal sense, which tends to unity. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have I seen about a single death-bed in hospital or on the field, but generally impassive indifference. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy |
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