How To Use Sentimentalist In A Sentence
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Besides being a sentimentalist he was a romantic, a vain fellow, a man of wild passions, a little blind in one eye and almost stone-blind in the other.
The Beautiful and Damned
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I dare not say that civilized man is to be studied with the eye of a naturalist; but my vulgar meaning might almost be twisted to convey: that our sentimentalists are a variety owing their existence to a certain prolonged term of comfortable feeding.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 1
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Ira is portrayed as a sentimentalist who is viscerally and passionately indignant about the inherent inequalities and injustices of America.
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But it would be quite wrong to conclude from her subject matter that she was a soft-centered, weak sentimentalist.
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`I never took you for a sentimentalist ," Marlette said scornfully.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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But it would be quite wrong to conclude from her subject matter that she was a soft-centered, weak sentimentalist.
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If Rousseau had been alive today, the arch-sentimentalist would have been spilling his guts to Oprah and excusing the excesses of present-day sans-culottes like a Guardian leader.
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Religious workers are prone to overlook all other systems but their own, and maudlin sentimentalists have no use for law, Divine or human.
Criminal Anthropology from a Canadian View-Point
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Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
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He calls Verdi "the last naïve master of Western music, in an age given over to the Sentimentalisches" - the self-conscious, subversive "sentimentalists," such as Wagner, Liszt and their modernist followers, whose agenda-laden art has held sway ever since.
Hopes Dashed at City Opera As Dead Man Walking Disappoints
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He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror.
Dubliners
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That sadness, I am learning, is the province of the sentimentalist.
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Certain so-called sentimentalists are those who die, tribute their pity in an erratic fashion.
The Foundations of Personality
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Poetasters and cheap sentimentalists will berhyme and beguile you: I cannot help it; but I will at least attempt to administer the corrective of what should be common sense.
Gala-days
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Kunuk comes off as a sentimentalist, scuttling his attempts to inflate his story into something bigger, leaving remains that feel as psychologically uncomplicated as the similarly themed The Lion King.
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Because they pretend, I think, to be macho guys, but you see what sentimentalists they really are.
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Daphna: I bet. Why did I have to marry a sentimentalist? You're ruining my life.
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`I never took you for a sentimentalist ," Marlette said scornfully.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
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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
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I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart.
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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
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At present, and before our sentimentalists are a concrete, it would be profitless rashness to depict them.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 4
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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
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Mr Golightly, who was no sentimentalist either, was still looking at the deceiving surface of the mire.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Compared to this, the goodfellas seem like sedentary sentimentalists, trapped animals rooted in dying communities, doomed territories.
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Mr Golightly, who was no sentimentalist either, was still looking at the deceiving surface of the mire.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Because they pretend, I think, to be macho guys, but you see what sentimentalists they really are.
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These were the ‘philosophical circle’ and the ‘political circle,’ amicably decried by each other as ‘German sentimentalists’ and ‘French frondeurs.’
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This, we feel, is not the real Uncle Toby of Sterne's objective mood; it is the Uncle Toby of the subjectifying sentimentalist, surveying his character through the false medium of his own hypertrophied sensibilities.
Sterne
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I suspect that under that cynical shell you're at heart a sentimentalist.
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Remember, this is the man that described himself as a sentimentalist, not a romantic.
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That there is no infallible way to distinguish the genuine cases from the fraudulent ones causes the liberal sentimentalist no particular anxiety: he wants to feel generous, not to be generous.
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With this decision, the film swerves into sentimentalist airspace.
