as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
prefers the darkness of the original Grimms' fairy tales to the gooeyness of the modern cartoon versions
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Noun
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For a lot of Black dads, specifically those of a certain generation, life dealt them an unfairly tough hand, leaving them in a constant state of survival where feelings and sentimentality could be the difference between life and death.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025 -
Creating character is not among Murphy and Robertson’s strengths, and their pivot to awkward sentimentality throws the whole negotiation into disarray.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
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“Gooeyness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gooeyness. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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