Sentence examples for sentimental figure from inspiring English sources

She also comes across as an atypically sentimental figure, an uncensored truth-speaker frilled in old-lady cuteness.

The sentimental figure of the ecologically noble savage, to which Hemley admits being attracted, has long ceased to interest.

Unexpectedly wise, Baby Cakes is actually a sentimental figure, but amid all the obscenity and meanness of this show, that comes as a relief.

While Mr. Beale said England's focus on Shakespeare was natural, he added that he felt relieved that the festival organizers had not sought to showcase the playwright "as a sentimental figure representing green and pleasant lands".

He never signed another exclusive contract with a studio; he selected his scripts and his directors, and this is probably what saved him from turning into a depressingly sentimental figure, like the later, tired Gary Cooper, or a drudge, like the big M-G-M stars.

The Ohrstroms, who amassed a fortune through ventures as varied as fruit-pitting machines and aluminum horseshoes, are sentimental figures in Virginia's hunt country, admired for their philanthropy, money and, in keeping with local values, being low-key about their money.

For Piazza and Clemens, an otherwise sentimental moment figures to be spoiled because there is a good chance they will have to share it with each other.

The 74-year-old company, maker of a line of sentimental porcelain figures popular with collectors, is trying to make a go of it under new owners, having been shut down from October 2008 to late February as a consequence of the economic downturn and the bankruptcy of its parent company.

It's the audience that's being programmed, coerced into seeing him not as a character but as a sentimental action-figure mascot.

She had just been too literal-minded and, later, too lost in her own work her popular, sentimental, representational watercolors to figure it out.

O'Neill became wealthy and famous through her Kewpies, sentimental little Cupid figures to which the Ladies Home Journall, under the editorship of Edward Bok, devoted a full page in December 1909.