Sentence examples for a sentimental scene from inspiring English sources

Finishing a jigsaw, though, means you have restored something that was ugly and useless to begin with — the reproduction, on cardboard, of a great work of art, or a sentimental scene.

In a blatantly sentimental scene, Duparquet recalls for Ciboulette the death of his young lover, Mimì, singing in an aria that only her lace handkerchief is left to him.

In between, there are a few sentimental scenes about the inarguable appeal of cute children.

In a sentimental final scene we see her spectral figure wandering among present-day viewers of her portrait.

They compromise with a sentimental reconciliation scene at the end, but otherwise there is an admirable toughness to their contention that showing off one's offspring to the world can be as cruel as locking them away from it.

JUDITH THURMAN: No, and I thought the weakest scenes were the domestic ones — the sentimental scene where he is talking to his kid JUDITH THURMAN: Although I loved the vignette in the cereal department at the supermarket.

A few snarky yet sentimental scenes later, they've helped him realize his true destiny as Santa Claus.

In a couple of particularly sentimental scenes, Henry manages to visit Clare and his daughter after his own death, and in those moments there is the evanescent comfort of a vague spirituality.

There are few battle scenes, little rousing oratory, no sentimental scenes in which freed slaves thank an overwhelmed Lincoln and little heard from John Williams and his angelic choirs.

He eases effortlessly into the role of a tough, sturdy Southern boy who struggles to hold his family together, and whose sentimental scenes late in the story will send many hardened moviegoers groping for their hankies.

Sentimental scenes abound.