Emotionalism and sentimentality prevent the sensitivity of feeling.

多愁善感和感情用事妨碍了感觉的敏锐。

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But he is kinder than the former, and less neurotic than the latter (whose own compassionate sensitivity got blocked by obsessive self-consciousness, or, when unblocked, sometimes emerged as outright sentimentality).

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