Sentence examples for sentimental desire from inspiring English sources

His retirement last month is likely to trigger a sentimental desire among his many celebrity fans to pay tribute to one of the great masters of eveningwear.

I have a sentimental desire to support local entrepreneurs.

To some outsiders, it seemed like a sentimental desire to hold onto a very well drawn out love story between Castle and Beckett.

"The love letters he sent to Pauline were just as emotional and sentimental and desiring as the ones sent to Hadley.

The dancer Anne Lebeau treasures fonder memories of days spent "going submarine" in darkened rooms with, Mr. Pellerin, her charismatic lover, while Alain Lacoursière, a detective specializing in art theft and forgery, has less sentimental reasons for desiring a reunion.

Okay, honestly on occasions I'll think of something we had to get rid of but I think of it with sentimental memories not with a desire for replacement or a feeling of loss.

Getting drunk in an atmosphere of sentimental affection with the object of desire is a tough test in self-control.

She represents an escapist, sentimental fantasy structured around specific female desires, which makes some passionately devoted to her and others disdainful.

You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection.

Indeed, sentimental fondness for the simple rustic life and a desire to be close to nature run deep in the Russian soul, one reason that urban Russians, even wealthy ones, retreat to their dachas on weekends.

His family was wealthy and his life resembled that of Frédéric Moreau in A Sentimental Education: travel, an interest in art and a vague desire to be creative.