as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
sees Valentine's Day as just an excuse for unbridled displays of soppiness
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Noun
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Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson, never one for excess sentimentality, admitted the idea had been floating around for a while.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025 -
Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
Noun
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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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“Soppiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soppiness. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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