Sentimentality:

Camilla Paglia:

"Bush rejects Shelley’s “sentimentality”: “His heroes and martyrs are all alike, all physically weak and spiritually lonely, pale youths who perish, or are ready to perish, unupbraiding. They are all variations on the portrait of himself as an effeminate romantic idealist.” Fifty years ago, these words were meant to produce a shudder of distaste in the manly reader, but time and the revolution in sex roles have now made Bush’s prosecutorial judgment sound value-free."