nostalgic, maudlin, sappy, poignant, mawkish, melancholy, wistful, corny, heartfelt, emotional, unsentimental, tearjerking, schmaltzy, hokey, cliched, melodramatic, endearing, heartwarming, bittersweet, soppy, cloying, whimsical, elegiac, treacly, saccharine, weepy, hackneyed, wordsworthian, lighthearted, twee, warmhearted, humorous, timeless, kitschy, poetic, romantic, sorrowful, treasured, gushy, funny, symbolic, overwrought, autobiographical, melancholic, escapist, trite, affectionate, preachy, singable, pretentious, morose, uplifting, mournful, philosophical, patriotic, cheesy, humerous, fatalistic, introspective, slapstick, cynical, showy, reverent, offbeat, sad, embraceable, sarcastic, rueful, droll, bathetic, mythologise, ambivalent, utilitarian, cutesy, didactic, formulaic, quirky, lachrymose, joyful, overdetermined, winsome, evocative, soulful, grandiloquent, reverential, jingoistic, sardonic, witty, lovable, fairy tale, joyous, memorable, playful, heartbreaking, silly, nonliterary, charming, artless, tacky, philosophic, exhortatory, wry, humourous, folksy, bawdy, satirical, chivalric, byronic, pamby, inspirational

., adequacy, barbershop quartet, camp, campy, corn, crooning, dismally, effusive, keepsake, mush, namby-pamby, norman rockwell, relic, rockwell, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalize, sentimentally, sentimentise, sentimentize, sob sister, sob story, sob stuff, softie, softy, soft spot, souvenir, stardust, tearjerker, token, treacle

bathetic, emotional, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy, tender