sentimentalism, romanticism, pathos, maudlin, sappiness, nostalgia, schmaltz, melancholy, wistfulness, melodrama, mawkishness, didacticism, emotionalism, triteness, cynicism, whimsy, saccharine, pretentiousness, bathos, superficiality, misanthropy, cliches, pretension, corniness, artifice, pomposity, facetiousness, pompousness, cheesiness, moralizing, wryness, theatricality, frivolity, earnestness, poignancy, bombast, poeticism, jingoism, chirpiness, winsomeness, peevishness, dreaminess, sanctimony, conventionality, ruefulness, artificiality, silliness, commercialism, melodramatics, playfulness, lugubriousness, grimness, naturalism, preciousness, knowingness, emotion, glibness, prettiness, plaintiveness, profundity, moroseness, insipidity, mournfulness, lyricism, blandness, elegiac, fatalism, showiness, ingenuousness, neurosis, archness, grandiloquence, pensiveness, kitsch, superciliousness, melancholia, mushiness, ennui, subtlety, dailiness, solipsism, smugness, sullenness, tunefulness, absurdism, eccentricity, snobbery, slyness, poignance, condescension, unworldliness, daftness, carnality, banality, egocentricity, surrealism, stodginess, fustiness, ponderousness, juvenilia, affectation, joylessness, sensationalism, prudery, squeamishness, sentimentalist, credulity, sentimentalists, sentimentalities, cant, conceit, vanity, histrionics

schmalz

imagism, intolerable, mushiness, romanticist, schmaltz, schmalz, sentimental, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, sentimentalize, shmaltz, tender, tough, unabashed

emotionality, sentiment