Sentence examples for sentimental dream from inspiring English sources

Federer's victory over Andre Agassi in 2005 was a sentimental dream final, and in a way so was Pete Sampras's triumph over Agassi in 2002.

Emotionally they are very secure, and experience romantic, sentimental dreams.

The film goes on too long and adds up to very little, but the director's undisguised pleasure in filming the world of his grandiose, sentimental dreams is contagious.

While our living memories of half a century are represented as sentimental "dreams" of the past, Jews who have never before set foot in Palestine claim a right to "return" there after millenniums.

Her fiction is titillating, sentimental and dream-like as it explores how sex is nothing without emotion.

Any reader of fiction has a right to an occasional escape from the dullness or misery of his existence, but he has the critical duty of finding the best modes of escape in the most efficiently engineered detective or adventure stories, in humour that is more than sentimental buffoonery, in dreams of love that are not mere pornography.

At the lower end is a thunderous growl, at once heroic and ominous, that transforms his signature song, "The Impossible Dream," from sentimental kitsch to an anthem of demonic obsession.

But I desperately needed my sleep back then (these days it's a different story, as I lie in wait for the muted thwap of the morning paper on the driveway) and, rather than get up, I would fall back into the pillow and scratch at myself half-mast and maybe dream in sentimental hues of gorgeous black swans who always swim alone.

The long dramatic scene near the beginning of "Faces," which takes place at the home of Jeannie (Gena Rowlands), whom Richard and Freddie pick up in a bar, turns on a goof that turns terribly serious: Freddie serenades Jeannie with a sentimental rendition of "I Dream of Jeannie," which she quickly turns into a rollicking tango.

Instead, the performers, often dressed as if for some formal event, processed enigmatically across the stage to sentimental tunes, or enacted dream-like scenarios which often involved sexual violence.

Why aren't writers jumping up and down over this? · This week Kate watched Knocked Up on DVD: "Because the star, Seth Rogan, is the half-brother of my friend's son, which makes him her half-son, surely?" Kate also saw the Yes We Can Obama video by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas on YouTube: "I shed a sentimental tear over the American dream".