Sentence examples for sentimental expression from inspiring English sources

His later influence on poets like Baudelaire and Paul Valéry is due to his mastery of sentimental expression, not, as they supposed, to his mastery of Neoclassic form.

In a recent recording she has tackled some of the hugely challenging arias written for the castrato Farinelli, and she started this recital with two of those, by Nicola Porpora: songs of delicious amorous distress and longing conveyed, as she showed, not by sentimental expression but by agility, clarity, a feeling for line and a perfection of ornament.

And no demonstration of mere willpower -- in the form of oratory, gesture, or sentimental expression -- is going to convince those that hold veto power to give it up if they really, really do not want to.

It found that there was "much to call forth hearty laughter in the occasional satirical hits .... Dr. Sullivan's music is as lively as the text to which it is set, with here and there a touch of sentimental expression ..

It seemed we were caught between quiet defeatism and sentimental expressions of our yearnings.

Bland, sentimental expressions of patriotism and reverence for fallen soldiers slides quickly into revanchism, denial and an ugly, xenophobic nationalism.

The substantial difference between the two indices suggests both that fear was triggered in response to the event and that the lexicon captures the different sentimental expressions.

I now understand the true meaning of the expression "sentimental favorite".

There's another paradox too, another of those conundrums that gives Birtwistle's music its essential energy: that whatever the systems that may have been used in the composition, the result has a vitalising freedom, a freedom both in the sense of the spontaneity and unpredictability of what you're hearing, and a freedom from any trace of the sentimental in its expression.

At one point he even seems to be on the side of "the people", with their nostalgia and sentimental longings, and expressions of horror at those who would erase whole cities in pursuit of the so-called purity of their visions.

He regards the line of assembled supplicants with a dowager aunt's indignity and an expression of sentimental piety — the recently bankrupt man who gambled with his daughter's life and, thanks to you, won.