The rest of the Hitchcock series:












This quote in Wiki keeps drawing my attention:

Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.

S. R. Serafin/A. Bendixen, The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (2005) p. 1014


The older meaning appeals to me.