July 17 2013 October 13 201313 This musical, about the life and career of Shlomo Carlebach Eric Andersonn), a kind of Hasidic hippie popularly known as the "singing rabbi," doesn't work, not least because you can't further sentimentalize a sentimental character.
Mr. Galecki (who was a regular on "Roseanne") remains fully committed to the ambivalent Alex, turning the play's most conventionally sentimental character into its most convincingly conflicted one.
Cancer, you are innately a sentimental character who thrives on rehashing old times and distant memories with your closest pals.
Anime (and its print sibling, manga) arrived in the west at the right time; its thrilling sense of spatial possibilities and destructive glee showed up Disney's sentimental, character-focused approach and conservatism, as the American company slipped into its mid-90s slump.
The film roles she liked to play were sentimental characters in romantic and detective dramas.
The plot leans a bit too heavily on some familiar, sentimental characters and situations (an estranged child, a stripper with a heart of gold, a predictable stumble on the way to redemption), but it is impossible to argue with Mr. Rourke's performance.
The haunted perception of imminent emotional failure — which, typically, the more sentimental male character resists at first — colors everything that follows in precisely the way the bad faith of a crumbling relationship poisons even the most innocent exchanges.
Fontane's plots refer with striking frequency to cemeteries, graves, burials, funerals — even ghosts.The haunted perception of imminent emotional failure — which, typically, the more sentimental male character resists at first — colors everything that follows in precisely the way the bad faith of a crumbling relationship poisons even the most innocent exchanges.
As directed by Daniel Sullivan and performed by an exemplary cast, "Proof" has the pace of a psychological thriller, and if its resolution tilts toward the sentimental, the characters deserve to be hopeful.
"Just Looking" is a candy-colored, unabashedly sentimental movie whose characters, for all their flaws, are basically decent people doing their best in sparer times than today.
Amid all that uncertainty, the list of potential candidates has continued to grow, and it includes some stolid, serious caretakers (Ed Harrington, the city's public utility chief, for instance) and overtly sentimental and stylish characters like former Mayor Willie L. Brown.
