The comforts of a familiar and beloved place are real, she suggests, but easy sentimentality can blind us to what's happening there.

The most successful poems here are those that steer clear of easy sentimentality.

But he added that Mr. Poliakoff avoided the easy sentimentality of a disease-of-the-week movie.

Comedy is probably the only form in which movies can effectively muse philosophically, especially about subjects as vulnerable to easy sentimentality as death.

But the film manages to keep a safe distance from easy sentimentality.

What's most alarming about "Jumanji" is its certainty that audiences will settle for a mixture of random gimmicks and easy sentimentality.

But any easy sentimentality is checked by the gravity of the violence that came before, and by the sobering lessons of history.

It's all about yuks and easy sentimentality.

But there is no trace of television's easy sentimentality in her book.

Unlike many recent versions, Klemperer is admirable in avoiding concessions to easy sentimentality.