One does not see this kind of thing often: two world-famous pianists laughing playfully as they jostle over access to the pedals and then launching into an intimate, almost sentimental, rendition of a piece.
There was something incredibly intimate about it — not sentimental but filled with sentiment.
France's involvement in Africa - at least in former its colonies - is intimate, historical and almost sentimental, with its business and security interests at stake.
Michael Saunders of The Boston Globe said that Sons of Soul does not have a song as good as the group's 1990 hit "Feels Good", but does have several good songs and ballads that are intimate without being overly sentimental and still found the album "unquestionably better than nearly all of the formulaic soul/pop albums littering the charts".
Webster's ballads were intimate and cajoling, but never sentimental.
The revelations are well paced, and Brkic deftly walks the line between the sentimental and the intimate.
In the stirring melodramatic 1954 bio-pic "The Glenn Miller Story," the director Anthony Mann avidly depicts the young jazz musician's search for a personal sound, together with the intimate romanticism behind his poignantly sentimental style (helped along by the tender chemistry between James Stewart, as Miller, and June Allyson, as the musician's wife).
Not much of Arnold's verse will stand the test of his own criteria; far from being classically poised, impersonal, serene, and grand, it is often intimate, personal, full of romantic regret, sentimental pessimism, and nostalgia.
Sentimental, humorous, occasionally sardonic, the narratives give an intimate and refreshing glimpse of figures like the poet (and draftsman) Jean Cocteau and the bristly photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Via this intimate coupling of music and words, by turns witty and nostalgic, Nyman and Hastings reveal themselves to be sentimental old souls, intent on turning Raging Bull into Love Story.
