Occasional triumphant and utopian moments arise and the odd excess of sentimentalism, but largely the audience is left to form their own judgment.
blogs.abc.net.au And most importantly, we need a national conversation on race that is mature, frank, and devoid of cheap sentimentalism.
www.themalaymailonline.com The imagination becomes diseased, sentimentalism takes possession of the mind, and there is a vague unrest, a strange appetite for unwholesome mental food, which is constantly unbalancing the mind.
en.wikipedia.org This patronizing and sentimentalism does more harm than good, and reinforces the divide in this country.
www.smh.com.au This translated to growing sentimentalism within society, and led to social movements calling for change, such as the abolition of the death penalty and of slavery.
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