Recently, online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter caused a viral sensation with its #WorldMostLovedCEO video that featured an over-the-top farewell celebration for its departing CEO, Mark Sebba. In a ...

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country. We call people “sentimental” when they express unusually strong emotional attachments to events, objects, places, eras and ...

When I told a writer friend of mine I was writing about sentimentality, he said, surprisingly, “Are you for it or against it?” Conventional wisdom holds that sentimentality is categorically repugnant, ...

I don’t usually like to write blogs focused on a single event, but in this case I have to make an exception. Samsung just produced a masterclass on how to drop the hammer of sentimentality in today’s ...

Getting some love for The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming today from Texas. From my pal Bill Holston’s review in the online version of D Magazine, out of Dallas: If I had to find a single word to describe ...

It seems odd in this era of “pervasive cultural irony” (David Foster Wallace) that Americans are so prone to sentimentality. We have been schooled to be cool with the shocking, the disgusting, the ...

The film critic Barry Norman has accused the late actor Robin Williams of an addiction to "saccharine, tooth-rotting sentimentality" which he said would sully the Oscar-winner's legacy as a film actor ...