'sentimental love' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express affection based on shared memories, nostalgia, and strong emotional attachment. For example: "Their sentimental love for each other had been forged long before they got married."
Then there'd be a naïvely sentimental love song.
I could not say that it was a sentimental love.
The novel Etelka (1788), by Dugonics, a sentimental love story in a historical setting, was the first Hungarian best-seller.
Carnal love, then and, well, call it sentimental love, the day-to-day caring about the other.
It was maybe an intellectual love, or a physical love, but certainly not a sentimental love.
There is also, unfortunately, a sentimental love story between a drugstore clerk and a gun moll.
Partly it was because I usually well up, despite myself, over sentimental, love-of-learning plays with unforgettable mentor characters.
When the film appeared in 1995, its most conspicuous element was the sentimental love-at-first-sight plot, in which the widowed president, Andrew Shepherd Michael Douglass), dates an environmental lobbyist, Sydney Ellen Wade Annette Beningg).
But what's wrong with the Lake District?" Additional reporting by Lizzie Deane The walk from Sewerby into Bridlington My boyfriend's dad, a typical Yorkshireman and far from sentimental, loves this walk, which runs from the village of Sewerby in east Yorkshire along the coastal path to Bridlington.
The only thing I've ever believed in, at the risk of seeming sentimental, is love.
They yearn for possibilities: to unravel every riddle; to be awfully sentimental regarding love and art; to be a lion not a mowess.
