Sentence examples for sentimental line from inspiring English sources

It's hard to know how to react to Lydia's sentimental line: "I'm the only person I know who's literally dreamed of cramming for an exam".

After a moderately involving start, the whole affair melts into "a glossy swatch of inspirational stop-and-smell-the-roses kitsch that has no idea where to draw the sentimental line" (Holden).

She worked with her elbows stuck out, jabbing them both in the eye: on one side her brother Augustus, with his lifestyle and his fame and his sentimental line, and on the other, Auguste, the genius, his lecherous old hands coaxing flesh from stone.

You see it at work here in Kate's restless eyes, taking constant inventory of a house that she feels might collapse if she ever relaxed her vigilance, and in her bone-dry delivery of sentimental lines.

I love "Talley's Folly," in spite of its highly sentimental story line and its rather transparent dénouement.

Indeed, the brothers act as if they expected this extraordinary confluence all along, indicating they are already tired of the sentimental story line.

We had to recognize that Daniela's victory had been constrained and contoured by what her body had gone through, that the sentimental story line was still held accountable, in the end, to the gravity of her body.

The song is built around one of his signature sentimental synth lines (think "Journey to Reedham").

After the novelty wore off, after the radio wore the song out, "To Know Him Is to Love Him" stood simpering, dripping treacle, almost crossing the line from sentimental homily to prayer, a dirge at its most lifelike.

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.

German translations and reviews of those translations also placed Austen in a line of sentimental writers, particularly late Romantic women writers.