But Dr Cassidy said it would be a mistake to confuse sentimentality with values.
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Investments turn to relics in investor portfolios for two primary reasons: sentimentality and inertia.
Frankly, to me, this statement is worse than nonsense, it is unthinking woolly sentimentality.
Without question though, all sentimentality aside, the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, period.
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Meadows presents a startlingly odd mix of near-treacly sentimentality and looming menace of extreme violence.
That story edges toward sentimentality, then veers into something stranger: an affecting meditation on human intimacy.
For some, Disney sentimentality and bad labour relations may have tarnished the company's image.
In a fit of sentimentality and raw ambition, I decided to make my own birthday dinner.
It's very emotive and there is a certain sentimentality people feel towards their local hospitals.
And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.
But sentimentality aside, and when you really think about it, traditional cookbooks are better as coffee-table tomes.
Such questions have dimmed much of the sentimentality attached to America's extraordinary number of centenarians some 70, 000 and rising.
Cynicism and idealism, suffering and euphoria, courage and terror, brutalisation and sentimentality all find expression through their own testimony.
The music arrived wrapped in wisps of sentimentality, and not merely because of the nostalgia in Mr. Cale's compositions.
With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.
Books about slaves, especially the female kind, risk straying into worthiness and sentimentality.
To this day, there is love but not sentimentality for the horse.
War was not caused by the exaggerated fatalism and sentimentality of European cultural pessimism, but it was conditioned by it.
But the sentimentality in the script oozes insincerity, like it's something that's been grudgingly inserted to please a specific demographic.
Without claiming to explain what probably nobody can explain, Ms Wullschlager records Chagall's artistic slide into repetition, pastiche and sentimentality.
This ability to make tough decisions shorn of sentimentality is a far cry from how the older generation ran the group.
The latter story was read to Lenin on his deathbed and, according to his wife, he found its "bourgeois sentimentality" completely intolerable.
The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has accused people opposed to the cull of being seized by a "Wind in the Willows sentimentality".
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His eccentricities on the public stage, Cliburn could veer toward affected grandiosity or oversaturated sentimentality now seemed to capture more attention than the playing.
Christmas also seems to bring with it a tidal wave of sentimentality with old films on television, soft carol music and pictures of old-fashioned celebrations.
And that ahistorical misunderstanding is behind much of the creepy centennial sentimentality.
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This is us, a people of savage sentimentality, weeping and lifting weights.
McKay runs away from sentimentality with every ironic fiber he can muster.
He had no time for sentimentality: if a business was not first or second in its industry, it should be sold or closed.
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Not to be daunted, and plainly unfazed by the threat of both sharks and sentimentality, Marlin sets off to rescue his only child.
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