Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.