Sentence examples for mere sentimental from inspiring English sources

But this is no mere sentimental homecoming.

His homage to Bunshaft is no mere sentimental journey.

For a long time Andersen suffered from his translators, pious Victorian ladies who turned the stories into improving tales of virtue in times of adversity, dismissed by critics as mere sentimental religiosity.

Love is not merely sentimental.

Some scornfully see this as a mere ploy to squeeze dollars from sentimental foreigners.

I'm currently a sentimental mess, where a mere glance at a gingerbread nativity scene will leave me teary-eyed.

Hewitt is the only player in the semifinals without a major victory, trailing the sentimental favorite, Sampras, by a mere 13.

The risks inherent in making fiction out of the encounter between privileged Europeans and powerless dark-skinned non-Europeans are immense: earnestness without rigor, the mere confirmation of the right kind of political "concern," sentimental didacticism.

Disappointingly, the aliens' florid bodies are mere candy coatings; on the inside, they all have the sentimental morality of a nineteenth-century Frenchman.

• Walking up the Via San Gregorio Armeno, where every presepi shop sells a sickly, sentimental selection of model cherubs, donkeys, angels and mere mortals to adorn traditional Neapolitan cribs.

The sight of Ms. Anderson is liberating after a night of Ms. Nash's hammy duets with Louis Van Amstel (he is steering her in the wrong, overly sentimental direction), Ms. Gosselin's stuttering walks and the mere sight of Mr. Pavelka (the eager-to-please former "Bachelor" who treats the show like dance camp and seems to be more in awe of Mr. Ochocinco than of his partner).