Sentence examples for sentimental as from inspiring English sources

"We tried to hold out, for sentimental as well as economic reasons," said Vincenzo Conticello.

It was Nabokov, in his Lectures on Literature, who pointed out that Lenin had a sentimental as well as a cruel side.

One particularly notable mix for XLR8R leads off with Linkin Park's "Crawling", a selection the producer explains was chosen for sentimental as well as musical reasons.

The film is unashamedly sentimental as it focuses on death and loss, but it trades in that sentiment with grace.

"Football isn't as sentimental as that, unfortunately".

Sentimental as I sound, that is why I came.

It is also sillier and more sentimental, as the demands of showbiz warrant.

As manipulative, obvious and sentimental as it is, this show is also tough to resist.

'If you are sentimental, as I am in buckets, it's going to be quite a moment.

Still, many shoppers grew sentimental as the hour of parting approached.

Both Enright's poetry (Selected Poems, 1969) and his novels (Academic Year, 1955; Figures of Speech, 1965) reflect his life abroad and are anti-sentimental, as is his best-known collection of essays, Man Is an Onion (1972).