Sentence examples for sentimental conception from inspiring English sources
But there is a less sentimental conception of Venice's femininity: of a woman of easy virtue who clings on to many clients despite the ravages of time which are treated by means of shrewdly applied face lifts.
Rousseau's sentimental conception of the "noble savage" was often invoked, and often by those who were ignorant that the phrase is Dryden's or that the type was adumbrated in the "poor Indian" of Pope's An Essay on Man.
Once again, Mr. González Iñárritu's fine and subtle instincts as a director of actors and a composer of shots are undermined by a melodramatic sense of story and a fundamentally sentimental conception of fate.
As each character invents a life against obstacles significantly unlike those faced by Europeans coming to America, viewers must drop their sentimental conceptions of immigration and submit to the new ideas and images that are so judiciously and artfully rendered here.
This view is allied to an absurdly sentimental and unhistorical conception of sexual history, which leads him to construct a prelapsarian model of an ancient Greece in which male homosexuals were "once the most respected members of... society".
Sentimental comedies reflected contemporary philosophical conceptions of humans as inherently good but capable of being led astray through bad example.
When Pill riffs about a play he's recently seen, Shaw's "Major Barbara" — "It's the emasculation of the working class by a sentimental pseudo-socialist, peddling an idealist conception of history!" — Eli replies, "Oh, yeah, baby, talk Commie talk".
The picture's moralism is unconvincing, not only because current sensibilities are unlikely to be shocked by misbehavior in high office (or out of it) but more seriously because Mr. Zaillian's conception of politics is sentimental and unreal, and his sense of history is ultimately that of a decorator, not a storyteller.
The emphasis put on the right measure and on the right object of pleasure and pain in the citizens' sentimental education to some degree anticipates the Aristotelian conception of the moral virtues as the right mean between excess and deficiency (II 653b c): "Virtue is this general concord of reason and emotion.
It has a handful of deleted scenes and a more downbeat alternate ending, suggesting that Mr. Sheridan's original conception of the film was less aggressively sentimental than the final release version.
