The phrase "a sort of sentimental" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that has a sentimental quality or evokes sentimental feelings, often in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The movie had a sort of sentimental charm that resonated with the audience."
Alternatives: "a kind of nostalgic" or "a type of emotional".
"It was romanticizing a memory that's not really that amazing or that beautiful, but just has a sort of sentimental value," Mr. Rossen said.
Even at its worst, and certainly at its best, South Boston was a romantic place — a sort of sentimental evocation of a small town, with its own rules, its tortured intimacies, its layered loyalties.
Here Issa's passive unworldliness is a trait that destabilises the very worldly people who are drawn to him, inducing a sort of sentimental nobility that opens them up to tragedy.
The New Hampshire presidential primary's long history as the first in the nation, and its tradition of town meetings and candidate house parties, has always made it a sort of sentimental favorite.
The phone, its features and Lebron share the screen, with a sort of sentimental quality on par with this extended Galaxy S III ad from June.
Lately, I feel like I've become a sort of sentimental anthropologist, and what fascinates me now are the little everyday, small kindnesses -- the positive emotional connective tissue in our lives.
And it had a sort of fond, wistful sentimental remembrance of it".
No". The messiest cupboard is hers, she says - it's a sort of shrine to the sentimental odds and sods she has collected over the years.
The messiest cupboard is hers, she says - it's a sort of shrine to the sentimental odds and sods she has collected over the years.
Nearly every novel I've read that attempts to depict the internal experience of Alzheimer's also attempts to fit the disease's retrogenic symptoms to one sort of sentimental trope: a reckoning with a repressed or unacknowledged truth that must come before acceptance is possible.
