Sentence examples for sentimental gestures from inspiring English sources

Two very different ways of thinking about ideas shape intellectual life today, and TED's sentimental gestures arise from efforts to obscure the difference between them.

The final decision was made by San Jose State Coach Fitz Hill, who told Parry from the start that there would be no sentimental gestures.

She also showed that illness is as much about crying in public and grand sentimental gestures as it is stoicism and quietly closed doors.

There are no hugs, no hands across the sea of cultural difference, no sentimental gestures of redress, just a stunning acknowledgment of the chasm between the two characters.

Both had rejected the submission of art to any strict ideology or party line; despite Ginsberg's sentimental gestures (and an abiding sense of himself as a radical, no longer Marxist, but Blakean) neither teacher nor student had any use for Communist/Popular Front left doctrine.

But, in a society which has few established rituals left for facing death and its aftermath, and that struggles to know how to respond to others' grief, she also showed that the process can be as much about grand sentimental gestures as it is stoicism and quietly closed doors.

But this was no sentimental gesture.

This could be a spurious, sentimental gesture.

His presence is no sentimental gesture".

This wasn't just a sentimental gesture from a daughter who dabbles in oils.

Rather, it would be a positive sentimental gesture toward the downtrodden of baseball.