Sentence examples for essentially sentimental from inspiring English sources

It takes an intelligent actor to cut through McNally's clever and essentially sentimental view of the world and get to the heart of his various stories, which usually revolve around a secret — sickness, sadism, queerness, or all of the above.

This is an amiable, but essentially sentimental and predictable satire about an ordinary guy from Naples who becomes obsessed with getting on to the Italian version of Big Brother and becoming a big star.

Some of us write essentially whimsical, sentimental books; others, dark sagas.

He does not want to move into Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, because he is essentially a sentimental homebody, said his daughter Emma.

Armond White of New York Press dismissed the film as "essentially a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message" that uses villainous Americans to misrepresent the facts of the military, capitalism, and imperialism.

Fashion is essentially autobiographical and sentimental.

But in the end the family history and psychology of the characters lie outside the purview of what is essentially a small, sentimental and sometimes charming fable.

The regard he trained on his own performance was one of utter indifference, which is why Keaton strikes us now as so much more modern than the sentimental, essentially Victorian Chaplin.

Stylistically the War Requiem ranges from public music so obviously appealing, and so rooted in the requiem tradition of Mozart and Verdi, that it would be condemned by Stravinsky as essentially reactionary and sentimental ("Kleenex at the ready," he mocked), to the very intimate, unmistakeably Brittenesque moments that punctuate the grand design.

And Larkin was, in his own thorny way, essentially a sincere and sentimental writer.

Her get-up is weird and illogical for the milieu in which she lives and her farcical mannerisms clash with the ugly realism of the theme.Signorina Masina is not the cheerful and impish little waif she was in the finer "La Strada". She is here a misplayed lady type, an essentially old-fashioned and sentimental representation of the prostitute with the heart of gold.