The wish to pray came over him again, yet he wanted to weep, too, because as soon as his heart expanded a little the rusty splinter of a knife corroding there reminded him that lofty sentiments, sincerities, idealisms, have as their fruit in this life-dust, derision!
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
His people are used to his sincerities.
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell H. Conwell
The voice of the market had suddenly grown faint and far: he had come back at the last, as people so often do, to one of the moods, the sincerities of his prime.
"Embarrassments"
Henry James