Sentence examples for sentimental evocation from inspiring English sources
It's a sentimental evocation of Britain as a seafaring nation".
Even at its worst, and certainly at its best, South Boston was a romantic place — a sort of sentimental evocation of a small town, with its own rules, its tortured intimacies, its layered loyalties.
My sentimental education.
Rather than being a sentimental portrait of a man who doesn't like Christmas, this is an evocation of an unjust society – the true horror of Dickens's tale – and a powerful broadside against anyone who thinks there's no such thing as society.
By contrast, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's utopian Paul et Virginie (1788; Paul and Virginia), a rich evocation of exotic nature in the tropical setting of Mauritius, often seems overly sentimental to modern tastes.
When he reaches the ending, an evocation of the American frontier in ageless majesty, his reedy, confident Brooklyn voice turns sweet and sentimental: "Softer, sul tasto, misterioso, great mood here.... That's my favorite place in the whole piece.... Organlike.
Evocation is what excites me more.
