The idea was "to avoid sentimentality, a false Chekhovian manner that is not in the text."

But my futile attempt to avoid all the sop and sentimentality fell at the first hurdle.

He focused his attention toward the lower half of the keyboard, and completely avoided sentimentality.

Here tenderness avoids sentimentality, becoming its own form of pictorial intelligence.

By not explaining much about the characters' past and psychology, the brothers aimed to avoid sentimentality.

"Ocampa is dying," she said, imbuing her words with feeling but avoiding sentimentality.

At all points the playwright avoids sentimentality and even heroism.

It is with this basic contradiction that Forester avoided sentimentality.

Which is not to say that "Land of Plenty" avoids sentimentality.

Another was to capture people doing ordinary activities avoiding romanticism and sentimentality.