Sentence examples for sentimental assumptions from inspiring English sources
In her new novel, "The Love of My Youth," so nostalgic in its title, Mary Gordon overturns sentimental assumptions, redirecting the reader's sympathies from what could have been to what in fact was -- and to what therefore followed.
But by making the teacher in question (played by Ryan Gosling) not only a drug addict but also, more important, a complicated individual whose moral confusion was hard to separate from his political idealism, they upended easy, sentimental assumptions about race, class and urban life.
To take up this tradition holds dangers for the contemporary poet: provincialism, anachronism, the sentimental assumption that such a numinous place will be a de facto presence in any poem that cares to name it.
But "Minsky's" seems content to do the old steps in the old style, on the assumption that sentimental escapism presented with gusto and polish can turn the trick one more time.
Because of Waltrip's sentimental victory and the assumption that old Ironhead was indestructible, it was awhile before the seriousness of Earnhardt's crash became apparent from the emergency swarm and the silence on the radio to the frantic "Talk to us, Dale".
The result is a sentimental sermonizing that reeks of second-hand assumptions and unquestioned stereotypes even as it reflects, sincerely but clumsily, a real political fury.
A civilian airliner, Dutch victims: "People realized that the sentimental attitude toward Putin and Russia was based on false assumptions," a German diplomat said.
His assumptions about "the decline in quality that came with staff reductions" seem more sentimental than analytical.
Investors are less sentimental.
