Was grangerizing, or "extra illustration" an "exquisite handicraft" or merely "breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one?" When it came to the inclusion of non-illustrative elements — playbills inserted into "Romeo and Juliet," for example — was it ruining a book for the sake of personal recollection, creating a paean to a rotten or sentimental memory?
But what if the dead desire to be reborn in us, and not just as some sentimental memory inspiring an annual nod in their direction?
Here again, we see the process by which sentimental memory is alchemized into art in James's ever-churning mind: "During the time since Holmes's visit and in the midst of all his worry and suffering, his interest in the picture of a young American woman slowly dying, which he had noted down, had intensified.
Even if our sentimental memory of these heroic figures is nothing more than nostalgia for irrecoverable pleasures, their initial impact may be seen as having a formative influence on a child's expectations, as many commentators have thought.
We had a lode of keen, sentimental memories of the original Yankee Stadium.
These are not idle speculations, because the resulting film was an unstructured mishmash of sentimental memories, saccharine cliches and oddly unsupported opinion.
One spouse (Jean) thought that a fair valuation should take into consideration sentimental memories (the candle was a gift), the mint condition of the wick and the uncommon, two-tone coloration around the toe area.
Marketing to Russian émigrés is complicated by their love-hate relationship with their homeland, which can play out as a contest in each household between sentimental memories of the old country and an urge to say "good riddance" to the old culture.
Okay, honestly on occasions I'll think of something we had to get rid of but I think of it with sentimental memories not with a desire for replacement or a feeling of loss.
The couple admitted to being "mad as a box of frogs" for choosing to marry in a supermarket but said it held "sentimental memories".
