Sentence examples for sentimental affection from inspiring English sources

The Samurai Shopper does, and admits a sentimental affection for soap's plain-Jane properties.

And I'm the kind of person who can feel sentimental affection for a teak plank.

Wheldon is often recalled with sentimental affection, but he was a demanding taskmaster.

Getting drunk in an atmosphere of sentimental affection with the object of desire is a tough test in self-control.

Although both shows drew audiences with sentimental affection for the originals, neither was revealed as a classic worthy of serious reconsideration.

This future is bleaker than Hanson's – lacking empathy, those robots wouldn't have a sentimental affection for us as their progenitors – but essentially the same.

The opera presented, for the first time, things familiar to every German: the simple village life, with its rough humour and sentimental affections, and the surrounding forest, with its smiling appearance concealing supernatural horror.

In his great Farewell Address, he also gave some reasons why attachment to a foreign power, no matter how sentimental the affection, could only impair American liberty and independence and serve to draw the country into unnecessary wars.

And of course we laugh and cringe along with everyone else in the movie right up until the sentimental ending, where fraternal affection is affirmed, and Jill finds romantic love as well.

There is something sentimental at the heart of any museum whose reason for being is to celebrate the affection we feel for objects that were once part of everyday life, but the Riverside Museum has a boldness that transcends coy nostalgia.

In order to maintain the independence of the four kinds of emotion and reduce affection overlaps, it removes sentimental words between axes.