How To Use Sentimental In A Sentence

Something you thought had only sentimental value could be worth a great deal. The Sun
Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
It was a sentimental and monumental event as the Brazilian government gave the Philippine president full planeside military honors complete with all the 21-gun salute. WN.com - Articles related to Chile Rejects Church Call to Pardon Officials
She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”

Black color is sentimentally bad but, every black board makes the students life bright. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
No sentimental swooning with love for Austen. Times, Sunday Times
Even the more sentimental variations seem mocking.
Bond's unflattering portrait lacks generosity, but at least it's an antidote to sentimental bardolatry. Times, Sunday Times
Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation.
Before you turn the page, wondering why I've chosen such a dreadful piece of sugary sentimentalism for this week's painting, give Greuze's grieving girl a second glance.
Don't be too sentimental about the cat.
That would be Robert Downey Jr., whose antisentimental charisma is the most dramatically definitive feature of Colorado Springs Independent
But he had always been a sentimental kid at heart, and was probably just jealous because I wasn't lavishing him with attention for a change.
Bill's loyalty to his apprentice had been ill rewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental.
I think that I avoided self-pity and sentimentality about it because I didn't feel that way about it.
Scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism note the radical universalism underlying sentimental discourse as well as the broad values of political and social equality it assumes.
For a half-dozen albums, the sentimental chanteuse has avoided mimicking other people's songs, opting instead to bend and deconstruct the material to fit her mood.
Call me sentimental, but I'm going to miss the old gal.
Wilbur, a behemoth boar who can't stand fences - and hasn't met one that could stop him - is spared from the breakfast plate for sentimental reasons.
He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
They are unsentimental about their impact on employees.
It's admittedly cheesy and sentimental but it's important to me because it represented a big emotional closure for me.
In my resultant article I actually compared Montreal to an afternoon soap opera - a punchy, passionate, sentimental place full of ridiculous arguments and beautiful women.
We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.
His hard, tough, unsentimental mind gave to the weak young republic the guidance it desperately needed.
The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black goat herder-turned-academic from Kenya, Obama delivered an unsentimental account of squandered opportunities in postcolonial Africa.
This _liaison_ was largely sentimental, and marked by a kind of etherealized sensuality. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes. From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
Rich: Yes, if he's cruel, the upside is that he's unsentimental, which is refreshing. Houses Collide: Game of Thrones Discussion — All's Well That Ends With Dragons
Time and again, in prose unsparing and unsentimental, Liz has allowed readers a peek into her own mental health struggles.
While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice. This week's new exhibitions
This is sweetly sentimental suburbanism. Globe and Mail
Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
The vicar of the parish, Banks, is excessively sentimental about the church and is constantly importuning Stannard with hesitations and objections.
The middle-class in the center of concern in these novels, as it is in sentimental comedy.
Being incapable of theory, being indeed incapable of thought, he can only deal in two things: what he calls practicality and what I call sentimentality. The wheels of justice grind slow…
The writers juggled a nice mix of comedy, drama and romance pretty well, only occasionally stumbling into gooey sentimentality.
How does she avoid sentimentality? Times, Sunday Times
These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.
Mr Golightly, who was no sentimentalist either, was still looking at the deceiving surface of the mire. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
unsentimentally, she threw out her dead son's toys
The short Serenades are also quite pretty and Hanson makes the most out of their sugary sentimentality.
These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.
But if you look to the links section on the homepage sidebar you'll see a link for my ‘personal faves’ section, which has a dozen or so of my sentimental faves.
It is an old-fashioned, admirably reticent film that succeeds not through daring but by avoiding the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama.
She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
But we need to consider the argument in an unsentimental way. Times, Sunday Times
The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying.
We are never sentimentally attached and wander at applause and never hesitate.
But the camp performer always knows that he is being sentimental and enjoys the indulgence.
As I say, Angell resists sentimentality, but he is alive to sentiment.
Beyond sentimentality and self-indulgence, these backward glances at a naïve landscape awaken - or reawaken - the conservationist within us.
Marlene did have a sentimental attachment the place they were in now, but she was like that.
Mars helps you to be less sentimental and make smart changes. The Sun
It's corny and sentimental, with a plot line of made of pure mush. Times, Sunday Times
Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy. Times, Sunday Times
Victor Vasarely, the founder of the op art movement, once said, "In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate".
At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type.
Amorphous plotlessness, cloying sentimentality, other things. Freedom Films with English Subtitles
It did eventually sink into a murky mire of sickening sentimentality that left me feeling nauseous, but hey, that's just me.
He has pathos without sentimentality, humour without guile and infinite sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
More than a typical jukebox musical, this charming and sentimental production is sure to make you shed a tear or two. Times, Sunday Times
An unidentified woman clutches a mouchoir while writing a sentimental family letter.
And Monster's Inc is a sentimental favorite after the fact. International Despicable Me Teaser Trailer | /Film
Or was the bestowal of a glass of wine regarded as a necessary courtesy in broaching or sealing these unsentimental transactions?
This is not a sentimental book. Times, Sunday Times
If you're soppy and sentimental you may like it; but otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
Her parents, thinking the gloves were for sentimental reasons, hadn't said a word.
Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
The book leaves the reader often stunned by his intermittent inhumanity and his incorrigible sentimentality.
Such sentimentality towards animals helped cavalry men retain their humanity.
Could she possibly marry this boy whom her sentimental contemporaneousness with his father naturally seemed to relegate to a generation younger than herself? The Halo
In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
The style is simplistic, clichéd and overly sentimental. Times, Sunday Times
McCarthy need not have worried, because this film is devoid of self-pity or false sentimentality.
The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.
Even today, scientists working with animals tend to think it sentimental to describe animals as feeling "pain" and generally replace the word "painful" with "nociception" in clinical trials. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Especially if I'm in a cheesy, sentimental, highly hormonal kind of mood.
Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero.
A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise.
To his credit, the director establishes a consistent, measured cadence early and sticks to it, while eschewing the most obvious sentimental tricks.
And that's just sentimental schmaltz and keeps sort of slowing down the movie, when you want to see this crisp, involving action story.
Taylor's funk-influenced style hearkens back to the days when Motown was pounding out hit after soulful hit, without relying on sentimentalism or retro-chic.
I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
The movie doesn't have to be mushy and sentimental, as long as it is a movie that the whole family enjoys.
Sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been. Well,it may have escaped you notice, but life isn't fair.
It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
Just pure sloppiness and sentimental tosh!
I did not like the sentimental coarseness of Mr. Grattan's speech.
Talking sentimental piffle, he staggers over to Isobel before I had time to react.
Then I found out I was just a sentimental schmuck like those flighty nitwits I've always pitied.
A bit sentimental in places but worth a look. The Sun
Such sentimentality towards animals helped cavalry men retain their humanity.
But, although it's undeniably visceral, in the end it's a sharp-witted study of sentimentalised violence and the use of language as a form of moral camouflage.
I remember thinking the plot was sentimental, rubbishy pap.
Caring for animals is not sentimentality - it reinforces our respect for life.
The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism.
There were what they called dower rights in the age, and the people who want to sentimentalize this will say, Well, there was no reason for Shakespeare or the lawyer to write anything in because everyone understood that she ` d have these dower rights, as his surviving wife. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Its rough edges and crafty urchins give it a true grit that avoids the sentimentality of its American cousins. Times, Sunday Times
Malawi, Africa (then called the Nyasaland Protectorate, under British rule) where he taught at Soche Hill College and wrote sentimental articles for Paul Theroux biography
Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
The story shows Lautro to be an unsentimental regulator with the power and will to crack down hard.
But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
The film isn't sentimental about death, the propagation of species, or other biological occurrences.
These traits of spoken language belong to a vulgar household, filled with the clamour of a large family fond of coarse jokes and prone to sentimental effusions.
But sadly the music of modern verses tends to make it far too sentimental and a bit sloppy in my opinion. Christianity Today
I meant to convey not just his strange, slow but charismatic drawl but also his character - unsentimental, tough to the point of roguishness with an unadvertised, indeed sometimes concealed heart of gold.
He has the uncommon gift of bringing remote places and people alive in an unsentimental way.
He came up with a witty scenario worlds away from the sugary sentimentality of most productions of the classic ballet.
It is an intensely nostalgic piece, yet utterly unsentimental. Times, Sunday Times
Soon, when borrowing a book, you'll be able to specify how sexy or sad or silly or sentimental you'd like it to be.
Lately, he has been dabbling in pop music of the Andrea Bocelli variety, which is to say amplified, synthesizer-backed sentimental ballads. 'I Have to Fly in Order to Sing'
Miller was tacitly in favour of the open landscape, if his vivid and often sentimental descriptions of the surrounding open fields, commons and wastes are anything to go by.
Are they "edgier," less sentimental, and therefore, (evidently) more award-worthy? The other g-word
His lack of sentimentality, his preoccupation with sex, and attention to often sordid reality were attractive to a large section of Italy's growingly literate public.
The dictionary defines nostalgia as 'a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past '. Times, Sunday Times
The awful intelligence came to me that Harwell must have loved that sentimental Victorian monstrosity. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
The fact is we have to take a fairly unsentimental view. Times, Sunday Times
A term applied to art or artefacts characterized by vulgarity, sentimentality, and pretentious bad taste.
The film departs from sentimental views of how families come together in crisis. The Times Literary Supplement
He's the kind of filmmaker who doesn't hesitate to over-sentimentalize.
Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras.
His undesiring sighting of her body achieved the same effect for her as his desirous vision of Robinson: Caroline is disarticulated from the body/property scheme so necessary to the realism of sentimental narratives (to which the prince was himself addicted, believing Maria Fitzherbert to be his soulmate from whose bosom he had been torn by parental pressure to marry against his nature). Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text
And because he wants, intermittently, to sentimentalize their dilemmas, he has a hard time generating genuinely potent satire.
Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying.
That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes. Là-bas
Where some have found it crude, others have praised its humorous and unsentimental look at love. Times, Sunday Times
The Labour Party will soon learn the value of these polite demonstrations that it is always its duty not to hamper the governing classes in their very difficult and delicate and dangerous task of safeguarding the interests of this great empire: in short, to let itself be gammoned by elegant phrases and by adroit practisings on its personal good-nature, its inveterate proletarian sentimentality, and its secret misgivings as to the correctness of its manners. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
He regarded poetry as sentimental self-expression.
But it does not extend infinitely, as false sentimentalism would have us believe.
During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing. Frederick william jackson
His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental.
Mock sentimentalists and fake humanitarians have walled their eyes to heaven in holy horror at the "barbarities" practiced by white men upon the "poor persecuted red man. Reminiscences of a Pioneer
Despite a hugely prolific career, Cole is now best known for a handful of over-played sentimental ballads.
But on the subject of American slavery, film-makers have always had an enormous sea of sentimentalism and melodrama to cross before even considering the subject.
It's an often syrupy, overly sentimental movie that really wants you to like it.
What a sentimental old softie. The Sun
The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
He claims sentimental reasons for the purchases.
Only the old wallow in sentimental regret. Times, Sunday Times
They know that you are a bore or not a bore, a grouser or not a grouser, generous or mean, sentimental or cynical, an optimist or a pessimist, and that you have or have not a sense of humour. If I May
I'm usually not very sentimental about old things that I don't use anymore.
There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart.
Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome. Times, Sunday Times
Childhood had less freedom and joy than we sentimentally attribute to it.
But as long as you make the problems genuine and the characters strive with all their considerable abilities to solve them, you are not going to patronise them or sentimentalise them.
This sentimental literature exalted spontaneous and expressive emotion springing directly from the heart.
Some people deny that there is any standard of female beauty; and, at any rate, there is no doubt but that habits and associations, as well as complexional and sentimental considerations, interfere more with our perceptions in respect to this than any other object of taste. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
Sentimentality and superficial nostrums must be avoided. Christianity Today
Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
It is romantic and sentimental thinking to propose a return to wearing mourning attire for the sake of resuming a stronger communal bond. Christianity Today
While the series gives us two brilliantly portrayed murderers, for me this unsentimental portrait of women of principle is more impressive.
It is a soppy and sentimental royal anthem that offers no opportunity for expressing pride in our nation. Times, Sunday Times
These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting.
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
It's corny and sentimental, with a plot line of made of pure mush. Times, Sunday Times
In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting.
She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.
It has a lugubrious pace and doesn't entirely convince but there are some sharp lines, an unsentimental view of big city politics and Pacino's rich performance.
These responses are based on a sentimental view of nature, permissible in prepubescent girls, perhaps, but disturbing in anyone old enough to know better.
If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads.
Now, here she is confronted by Lucy's chaos and Barnaby's wishy-washy sentimentality. SEA MUSIC
Numbers like "Annie" (co-written with Eric Clapton) and "April Fool" spotlight Lane's gifts as a master sentimentalist, while "You're So Rude" recalls the lusty lad rock of the Faces with (a pre-Hollywood sell out) Rod Stewart. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
From this you might be forgiven for thinking that Italians are unsentimental about a currency that's been credited as one of the prime unifiers in such a young country.
Philip used sometimes to declare that she had no sentiment; and then he doubted if he should be pleased with her after all if she were at all sentimental; and he rejoiced that she had, in such matters what he called the airy grace of sanity. The Gilded Age, Part 5.
But recurrent episodes of Carterism -- sentimentality about "dialogue" as the dissolver of differences, leavened by vanity about the power of one's personality -- waste time, which we are running short of. Jimmy Carter, Disappointed
Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action! Desmond Tutu
The saga novels in Ming and Qing dynasties were always permeated with a strong sentimentalism. Tragic theme is the common feature of the novels of this kind.
The experience gives him a newfound confidence that might be mistaken for sentimentality.
She stared at the patch of old wallpaper: huge pink and red roses, gaudy, sentimental.
This is one of those comedies that aims for small time targets, hits them and packs both sadness and affection in spades into its well edited 80 minute running time, without resorting to unnecessary sentimentalism.
No, I just couldn't believe that he was sentimental enough to risk his life for the vague chance of a new family member.
At present, and before our sentimentalists are a concrete, it would be profitless rashness to depict them. Sandra Belloni — Volume 4
However alluring the goal, he said, pursuing it “would have incurred incalculable human and political costs”; he was expressing the kind of unsentimental caution that is realism’s most important characteristic. What Would Wilson Do?
Literary sentimentalism and the adventure tale after Defoe, with its mixed narrative mode of thrilling episode and pious reflection, also influenced the rhetoric of the slave narrative.
The sentimentality has less to do with politics, and more with nationhood and the great family of Germany.
Hollywood was strangely unsentimental about its own history: costumes that would now be considered sacrosanct were frequently cut up and used to mop floors. Times, Sunday Times
Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
I think it's fair to say that the cultural landscape of the year ahead is defined by whichever ditty the nation awards this sentimental plaudit.
For want of a better name they are called sentimentalists, and they are among men what the morbid females who bring bouquets and sympathy to fiendish murderers are among women. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
He was the first artist to depict the Highland landscape without sentimentality.
Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
But when you pare away the sentimentality, when you realise that sumptuous as the scenery is it does not pay the mortgage, you appreciate that farming is the fulcrum of rural life, the pivot that makes everything else possible.
Then suddenly, when the card-shops decide to boost their sales, we get all mushy and sentimental.
The more reflective, sentimental, strophic Cancion is represented to a lesser extent.
The romantic opening theme that sets the scene for this core is typical Warbeck, an emotionally inflexed tune of great beauty and sentimental charm.
It does this without ever becoming overly dramatic or sentimental - a trait that many of Hollywood's screenwriters would do well to note.
His versatile pen was prolific of poetry, sentimental and satirical; of political allegories of great potency, of fiction erected of impossible materials, and yet so creating and peopling a world of fancy as to illude the reader into temporary belief in its truth. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
Now, by love I don't mean indulgence or sentimentality.
As a witness of the last days of this cruel and malevolent regime, Downfall is clear-eyed and unsentimental.
The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter.
Her book is sweetly sentimental, and full of heart-rending scenes of separation and reunion. Times, Sunday Times
She has now played four tournaments and won three of them, but there is very little sentimental about her.

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