Sentence examples for painfully sentimental from inspiring English sources
Sometimes they are painfully sentimental.
Painfully sentimental, but didn't you always know it was headed in that direction?
The film is painfully sentimental, and the good characters are improbably noble, but the star performances are definitely worth watching - Saturday at 10 30 pm. on WE.
The first half-hour is very funny and the rest mildly amusing until the painfully sentimental cop-out in the final 15 minutes.
Directed with economy and flair by John Tiffany, "Straits" gilds an established sentimental formula -- young people painfully coming of age during one scorching season at the beach -- with shiny political allegory.
Directed with economy and flair by John Tiffany, "Straits" gilds an established sentimental formula -- young people coming painfully of age during one scorching season at the beach -- with shiny political allegory.
With judicious affection, he captures the contradictory character of Victoria, at once "almost painfully honest and capable of the most devious machinations, prudish and tolerant, hardheaded and sentimental".
