Sentence examples for sentimental age from inspiring English sources

Such niceties, the club press officer suggested quite emphatically, belonged to another more romantic and sentimental age.

The New Yorker, September 5, 1925 P. 1 Not just to tag James J. Walker so prominently with lyric which won early fame "Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?" Was written in sentimental age.

He reminds me of Flaubert, another classicist in a sentimental age, who wrote to a friend on Christmas Day, 1876, "Be well-ordered in your life, and as ordinary as a bourgeois, in order to be violent and original in your work".

Before he became successful he threw out all his early stories and manuscripts because he thought it an "honourable" thing to do, a safeguard against a "sentimental old age".

If this strikes some as Simmons veering perilously close to sentimental middle-aged-sportswriter terrain — picture Mitch Albom — well, Simmons is now a middle-aged sportswriter.

It's true, too, that we tend to get even more sentimental as we age, especially about memories of long ago.

As Hollywood studios jostle for Oscars, one of the cards frequently played is that of the sentimental favorite: the aging and respected veteran who for one reason or another has never won an Academy Award.

(Anita Gates) 'CORPUS CHRInthisIn thisensitiveve revival of Terrence McNally's version of the Jesus story, the play appears more like a sentimental coming-of-age tale than like a political provocation (1 30).

But just as Mr. Chase's film hits the obligatory notes of the period rock movie without drowning in nostalgia, John Magaro, who plays Doug, captures the pain and pleasure of the youthful search for self while avoiding sentimental coming-of-age clichés.

Who would have thought that the mafia don would be getting sentimental in his old age?

In an age of sentimental religious pomp, he painted raw reality.