The best numbers, curiously, aren't the perky, twinkly ones, which bring to mind background music for sentimental ad campaigns, but the more somber solos.
These words, combined with the sweet, sentimental music playing in the background, hit me like a ton of bricks.
Rather, the text and the performances also fit snugly into Desplechin's comfort zone a complacently sentimental embrace of his experiences, his background, his emotions, and his actors.
Background music includes opera and sentimental Italian classics.
When the novelist and filmmaker Leon de Winter, whose work often revolves around his Jewish family background, managed to get public money for his projects, van Gogh detected cynical manipulation and sentimental cant.
In fact, the Film Society's packed Walter Reade theater proved the ideal way to view this story of the sentimental education of Adele (Exarchopoulos), an 18-year-old lycee student in Lille from a working class background.
Greengrass makes an attempt to show what Muse's background and situation is like, but without suggesting a simple equivalence, and there is, thankfully, no sentimental moment in which the two men come to understand and respect each other.
But the trip to Arkansas this weekend had a more sentimental feel, reuniting Mrs. Clinton with her former political allies and giving her a platform to broadcast her more centrist background.
Ingres hovers protectively in the background; it's clear that he was not originally part of the composition, but added the self-portrait as a sentimental afterthought.
