Sentence examples for sentimental fiction from inspiring English sources
Hannah's debut is an excellent example of that genre of sophisticated and sentimental fiction in which the terrible perplexities of life are teased into pleasing fictional shape, a genre we might call the "heavylight".
In passages like these, Miller adopts the style of sentimental fiction that has, for more than a century, affected the credibility of the Betsy Ross narrative.
These contain plays, verses, short novels, and other prose and show Austen engaged in the parody of existing literary forms, notably sentimental fiction.
Confusingly, however, he has taken the film's title from an entirely unrelated parody of fashionable sentimental fiction that she wrote when she was 14.
After the Second World War, the likes of Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Marilyn Horne, and Beverly Sills led a bel-canto revival, restoring dignity to music that had been dismissed as the equivalent of cheap sentimental fiction.
Her Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) combined the elements of contemporary humour and sentimental fiction in such a powerful manner that it, according to some, helped to precipitate the Civil War.
These "angry sentimental fictions" were as much a part of the narrative of modernity as were the formal philosophic disquisitions of learned academics.
The ironist knows what other, more naïve, observers do not: that surfaces are deceptive, that the real story is not what presents itself, that conventional pieties are sentimental fictions.
The irony is that Proulx comes so very close to identifying a probable cause for the influx of sentimental fan fiction.
There were expectations that Steven Spielberg's lofty, deeply contradictory attempt to fuse sentimental science fiction with futuristic satire using the latest digital technology might augur a more mature style of event movie, but they fizzled as quickly as "A.I".
Yet Drabble's most elaborated visions arise from spontaneous experiences in the English countryside, or, in the case of the reclusive actress of "The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance," from an infatuation with a ruin of a country house that brings with it, as in the most sentimental romance fiction, the handsome heir Burgo Bridgewater Elliot.
