Sentence examples for sentimental hymn from inspiring English sources
It even has the world's most lugubrious and sentimental hymn: John Lennon's Imagine.
It's a rather mawkish, predictable piece, with a sentimental hymn-like melody spun over sustained chords in its outer sections and a more agitated central episode framed by a pair of solo cadenzas, but nevertheless it makes a good vehicle for Tognetti's burnished tone and unfussy virtuosity.
Though they embrace musical forms unknown to Comden and Green (like hip-hop and rap) and a Latino and African-American perspective rarely evident in Broadway musicals until the 1960s, "In the Heights" and "Passing Strange" are also throwbacks to a more overtly sentimental era of entertainment, with hymns to Mother (and Grandmother) of which George M. Cohan might have approved.
Afterward, Bartholomew told himself that what had occurred must surely be no more than a mood of petulance, an eruption from his half-stifled impatience with the embroidery and frills that dressed the simplicity of truth, with the invasive, sentimental stories that somehow made faith easier, and the hymns he hated.
While singing a hymn he notices a mysterious, grieving widow (Davina Stewart) and her sentimental, goggle-eyed maid (Leona Brausen).
Head comments on the innovative character of the Hymn: "At a stroke Holst had cast aside the Victorian and Edwardian sentimental oratorio, and created the precursor of the kind of works that John Tavener, for example, was to write in the 1970s".
Same with Grandma's book club, some of whose members wax sentimental about the peace and quiet of staying in a Zen monastery; I was anticipating that some readers might misread ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
