Sentence examples for mostly sentimental from inspiring English sources

The dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre are thrilling, and the dances they do are mostly sentimental and conventional.

The company "endeavors to provide the best available talent from every corner… Merce Cunningham, incontestably the grand master of modern dance — and the man by whom it was converted, belatedly, to modernism — died two and a half years ago,… The dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre are thrilling, and the dances they do are mostly sentimental and conventional.

The authors who did manage to attract notice were mostly sentimental and blandly patriotic, while cultural critics, like Lewis himself, who were honest enough to express that the country had "not yet produced a civilization good enough to satisfy the deepest wants of human creatures," were disparaged.

Mostly for sentimental reasons.

There were a few bright spots, but it was mostly overly sentimental and sincere.

Mugira explained that, unlike most of his peers, he was holding onto some longhorns, mostly for sentimental reasons.

"Black Butterflies" mostly avoids the sentimental cliché of the artist as anguished martyr and is content to be a harrowing psychological drama.

"[The burglars] didn't take a huge amount of stuff – mostly jewellery of sentimental rather than great monetary value – and an Xbox and a TV.

She chanted "Piss Factory," with its colorful, tough-girl language, but the evening was mostly a sweet and sentimental affair.

These events have acquired an exaggerated importance, mostly because they had sentimental value for the baby-boom generation that dominated early pop-music writing.

Reviewing it in The Times Book Review, the novelist Herbert Gold found it "touching, charming and revelatory" but "marred mostly by a hastily sentimental running down at the end".