Sentence examples for sentimental mistake from inspiring English sources

It may even be a sentimental mistake to take it for granted that firepower will be decisive.

"Single Long," which features an engaging performance by Ms. Jahedi, would be perfectly respectable if it didn't make the fatal, though common, mistake of going sentimental at the end of its seven-episode run, as a disconsolate Isaac turns the Single Long camera on himself and records a teary, mopey statement of purpose: "I just want to meet somebody better than I am".

Willett had read interviews with Bob Dylan and Tom Waits in which they had dismissed their early songs as "too sentimental", and he fights to avoid making the same mistake.

Finally, sentimental considerations of friendship appear to cause Rob and Doug to make a fatal mistake concerning the timing of their descent, but the nightmarish storm might have made things a calamity whatever they did and whenever they did it.

Make no mistake, though: Life After Dark is as subtly political as it is sentimental.

If I'm not mistaken, Dom's expanded his cache of expressions from miffed, mad and amused to include thoughtful, sentimental and one that is either bliss or bleary depending on the camera angle.

Especially sentimental.

And is this sentimental?

Investors are less sentimental.

Bit sentimental".

Sound sentimental?