The phrase "a sentimental form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of expression, style, or medium that evokes emotions or nostalgia.
Example: "The song is a sentimental form of art that captures the essence of lost love."
Alternatives: "an emotional type of" or "a nostalgic version of".
In using the silhouette, Walker was appropriating a sentimental form to build a narrative about power.
The TED talk is today a sentimental form.
Colley Cibber, (born Nov. 6, 1671, London, Eng. died Dec. 11, 1757, London), English actor, theatre manager, playwright, and poet laureate of England, whose play Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a form of drama that dominated the English stage for nearly a century.
It pounds away at the idea of the man's love for his son – wears it like a badge of honour – to the extent that I eventually suspected it as a form of sentimental one-upmanship: the kid quaveringly calls his dad "pappa", and the dad hugs his son for dear life, protesting their tragic helplessness a little too keenly.
Valls supporters thought that the sentimental cult of Leonarda was a form of "angelism"—meaning a refusal to face unpleasant realities, in this case the truth about the self-evident (if historically rooted) pathologies of an underclass.
Valls supporters thought that the sentimental cult of Leonarda was a form of "angelism" — meaning a refusal to face unpleasant realities, in this case the truth about the self-evident (if historically rooted) pathologies of an underclass.
A sentimental triumph of a show (2 45).
Ultimately, affect and emotionality are used to maintain and perform the proper feelings for certain architectural structures, manifesting themselves as a sentimental performance of systemic allegiance.
Citizens of the galaxy on a sentimental tour of the old home world?
Hence the quest for extraterrestrial examples is more than a sentimental use of NASA's dollars.
A sentimental piece of jewelry.
