Sentence examples for getting too sentimental from inspiring English sources

Marville understood tradition without getting too sentimental about it.

The grit in Mr. Waits's voice -- "I'm the sand in the sandwich," he said -- suits his lowlife characters and keeps his lovelorn narrators from getting too sentimental.

Morrison told the Guardian books podcast: "There is, without getting too sentimental about it, the great tradition of Irish literature – there's Joyce and Beckett – and there's almost an expectation that you will be a modernist or a postmodernist.

But he cautions against getting too sentimental about jobs.

Let's not get too sentimental.

Nevertheless, Marker's trying not to get too sentimental.

"It helps me not to get too sentimental or caught up in death.

But don't get too sentimental about Ali and forget the money part.

Not to get too sentimental about it, but the Mississippi River is us, and vice versa.

White House aides said that Mr. Clinton has been so focused on the moment that he has had little time to get too sentimental.

Too many young pianists these days feel compelled to defamiliarize, interrogate, and otherwise discombobulate music of the Romantic repertory, as if the ghost of Stravinsky were admonishing them not to get too sentimental.