But what of Arsenal, the team who fell so badly, so disconsolately, the least sentimental elements of the bookmaking trade have already made them odds-on 10-111) to go through next season without landing any of four available trophies?
When either of these elements diminishes, when the form is overmixed with satiric, comic, or sentimental elements, or when the theatre of concern succumbs to the theatre of entertainment, then tragedy falls from its high estate and is on its way to becoming something else.
Spielberg responded to some of the criticisms of the film, stating that many of the "so called sentimental" elements of A.I., including the ending, were in fact Kubrick's and the darker elements were his own.
However, since this new history often subordinated the private sphere to the public, women writers took it upon themselves to bring "sentimental and private elements" to the centre of historical study.
Dury's childhood polio and subsequent disability form the dramatic core of the film, but his struggle with the disease and its aftereffects also gives the movie an element of sentimental predictability.
The playful yet vast movie is a sort of family portrait in which Jean discusses his life, his family, and his times — and in which the family reunion is openly, cleverly reconstructed, with multiple takes and an element of sentimental fantasy.
This is the strongest and freshest element in this sentimental but well-told story, created by the screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos and directed by Patricia Riggen.
The ensemble's concerts clearly have an element of the sentimental — "I remember when he played the cello in his diapers" was a representative overheard comment — but the quality of the playing is excellent.
When the film appeared in 1995, its most conspicuous element was the sentimental love-at-first-sight plot, in which the widowed president, Andrew Shepherd Michael Douglass), dates an environmental lobbyist, Sydney Ellen Wade Annette Beningg).
