Sentimentality
91Ticket That exploded, The — by William S. Burroughs (1961) This is the second installment in William S. Burroughs’s cut ups trilogy. Burroughs described the plot of the book as follows: “The Ticket That Exploded involves the Nova conspiracy to blow up the earth and then… …
92sentiment — , sentimental, and sentimentality Sentiment is a person s cast of mind or general mental disposition. It may be an opinion about a specific matter, or an emotion elicited by an image. Although there is no value judgment necessarily implied… …
93sentimental — adjective 1) she kept the vase for sentimental reasons Syn: nostalgic, tender, emotional, affectionate Ant: practical, dispassionate 2) the film is too sentimental Syn: mawkish, overemotional …
94sentimental — sentimental, romantic, mawkish, maudlin, soppy, mushy, slushy are comparable when they mean unduly or affectedly emotional. Sentimental usually suggests emotion that does not arise from genuine or natural feeling but is evoked by an external… …
95sentiment — n 1. feeling, attitude; response, reaction, Inf. gut reaction. 2. opinion, outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view, slant; notion, idea, thought, conception, estimation, theory; stance, stand, angle, position, posture, thinking, way of thinking;… …
96slop — [släp] n. [ME sloppe < OE (only in comp.) < base of slypa: see SLIP3] 1. watery snow or mud; slush 2. a splash or puddle of spilled liquid 3. any liquid or semiliquid food that is unappetizing or of poor quality 4. [often pl.] …
97drippiness — noun 1. the physical property of being soft and drippy • Derivationally related forms: ↑drippy • Hypernyms: ↑physical property 2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way • Syn: ↑mawkishness, ↑sentimentality, ↑ …
98mushiness — noun 1. a mushy pulpy softness • Syn: ↑pulpiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑pulpy (for: ↑pulpiness), ↑mushy • Hypernyms: ↑softness …
99schmalz — noun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music • Syn: ↑schmaltz, ↑shmaltz • Topics: ↑Yiddish • Hypernyms: ↑mawkishness, ↑sentimentality, ↑ …
100sentimentalism — noun 1. the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form • Hypernyms: ↑formulation, ↑expression • Hyponyms: ↑treacle, ↑mush, ↑slop, ↑glop 2. a predilection for sentimentality …
