Sentence examples for forced or sentimental from inspiring English sources

And in none of these films do the positive elements feel forced or sentimental.

The pictures meld his innate talents, chiefly for color, with a yearning for transcendence, which had come across as forced or sentimental in earlier work.

But the movie's notion of two self-centered people ill suited to each other, shedding their defenses and clinging together, feels forced and sentimental.

They look forced and sentimental, and especially suffer in the company of Ketaki Sheth's mesmerizing images of twins, which are subtle studies in individuality, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's ravishing yet unprepossessing photographs of Indian landscapes and workaday objects.

And Freddy's story about a magical sunflower root -- a beanstalk in reverse -- leading to her dead parent's new realm has a forced, sentimental quality, as do Boyd's and Freddy's manipulations of the toy husband and wife in Freddy's doll house, tiny figures not nearly sturdy enough to bear the burden of meaning thrust upon them.

She was forced to paint sentimental magazine pictures to make money, and, realizing that she had never developed her talent, she set her hopes on her eldest son, Lovell, who was very musical.

These are serious, highly trained individuals forced to deliver drippingly sentimental narration and to exchange manly but meaningful glances while weeping violins egg them on.

Focus on the commemorative or sentimental.

The interpretation is never indulgent or sentimental.

Nor are they mindlessly optimistic or sentimental.

This is no time to be nostalgic or sentimental.