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• n  falsely emotional in a maudlin way
• n  extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

• But he certainly would be appalled by contemporary Americans' vulgarity and sentimentality, particularly the way we celebrate nonentities.
• There's something about Lewis' sentimentality about children that gets on her nerves.
• Directed by Robert Greenwald (whose credits include the fine 1982 TV film In the Custody of Strangers), the movie avoids both sentimentality and sententiousness.

• mawkishness
• drippiness
• mushiness
• soupiness
• sloppiness

News & Articles

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• Should be a crime to see 'Identity Thief'
  If I didn’t like Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman so much, I would have stayed far away from the stench that is “Identity Thief,” an overly simplistic film with a dimple-cheeked, ridiculous conclusion that tries to make a hard right turn into sentimentality but fails miserably.
  June 7, 2013 - Wichita Falls Times Record News
• 'All You Need' celebrates midlife love, sans cliches
  Danish director Susanne Bier and star Pierce Brosnan make a love story that avoids sentimentality and instead creates a sweetly enchanting film.
  June 7, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Quotes

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• Clint Hurdle in USA Today
  The opportunity to tell him, 'You're going to get the ball in Game 4' was very special,Hurdle said. "And it was meaningful. But again, for all the right reasons. If it was about sentimentality, he would have pitched in the National League...
• Brian Williams in Reuters UK
  Williams, who took over as the Nightly News anchor when Tom Brokaw retired in December 2004, said in a statement that he appealed to the actor's "sense of romance and sentimentality" to persuade him to take the job.
• Mark McGhee in stv.tv
  After talks with his old captain Miller, McGhee told the Sunday herald: "There is compensation to agree but the talks were encouraging. For me, there is an element of sentimentality attached to the Aberdeen job. This is an opportunity to manage a...