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• n  someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality

• Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the .
• The rosy sentimentalist was also a fretful conservative; he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary communists in the State Department.
• Funke, 46, is no sentimentalist.

• romanticist

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• Sir Alex Ferguson in Sportinglife.com
  Hopefully we can get to the final again and this time Paul will get his opportunity,said Ferguson in the Sunday Mirror. "I'm not a sentimentalist by any means. My one aim has always been to manage the club in the right way. But if we got...
• Strobe Talbott in Reuters India
  Talbott wrote that Clinton had seen Yeltsin in various roles -- "snarling bear and papa bear, bully and sentimentalist, spoiler and dealmaker. He knew from experience that a session with Yeltsin almost always involved some roughing up before the two...
• Benito Mussolini in Telegraph.co.uk
  The Fuhrer was very kind. At heart, Hitler is an old sentimentalist. When he saw me he had tears in his eyes,Mussolini told his lover.