Sentence examples for sentimental dramas from inspiring English sources

By the turn of the millennium, a tragedy like the Columbine High School massacre could act as a catalyst for more than a dozen sentimental dramas.

He also pursued less-suspenseful fare with roles in the sentimental dramas Dolphin Tale (2011) and its sequel, Dolphin Tale 2 (2014), and in The Magic of Belle Isle (2012).

Barnum, always on the lookout for ways to turn setbacks into sentimental dramas, promptly put out the story that he had been trying to protect another elephant, and died with his trunk curled lovingly around him.

This will be Costner's 3rd baseball movie, after the comedy "Bull Durham" and the sentimental drama "Field of Dreams".

And "The Joneses," written and directed by Derrick Borte, unravels a tight, understated satiric premise into a soft and sentimental drama.

But Weitz leaches the tough situations of emotional difficulty; the sentimental drama is a superhero movie for liberals.

It surrounds a sentimental drama about embattled virtue with a swirling and wholly unsentimental view of life in a saloon and on the street.

She was cast opposite Toni Collette in the sentimental drama Miss You Already (2015), about two best friends coping with illness and the complications of family life.

The sentimental drama starred Ford as a ruthless and narcissistic lawyer whose life becomes a clean slate when a gunshot wound leaves him amnesiac, childlike, and nearly helpless.

This rather sentimental drama, a very English riposte to the Demi Moore vehicle Ghost, was transcended by sincere performances and some telling dialogue.

Dominated at first by the tearful comedies of Colley Cibber and Sir Richard Steele in England and the comédie larmoyante of Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée in France, the form came to life as a reaction against sentimental drama.