Sentence examples for sentimental narrative from inspiring English sources
What was happening was a gradual, unexpected transformation of high modernism's abstract language into something like its rhetorical opposite: something sentimental, narrative, populist.
A less successful comment is a work that brings the viewer into Hitler's bunker in the last moments of the war, imagines Eva Braun's sex act with Hitler, and presents a fanciful and sentimental narrative of her mental life.
Similar faith in the indispensability of soulful, sentimental narrative had worked for the last two Democratic governors to win the White House — a Bible-quoting Georgia peanut farmer and a Svengali from "a place called Hope" — but Dean was having none of it.
She said, 'It's no good forgiving your husband if you're going to make him eat it for breakfast every morning.' " Just about every anecdote Barry shared, or invented on the spot, conformed to a fundamentally sentimental narrative that retained at least a quotient of plausibility, allowing him to harvest a bit of sympathy for two lifetimes' accumulation of grievances.
Some of the poems, like Ms. Me's first-person narrative about a beaten wife, have the ripping and sentimental narrative verve of an old broadsheet ballad (the same style that is wittily rehashed by Lemon in an account of an unexpected survivor of the Titanic).
Mr. Bas, who lives in Miami and was in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, paints formally modest but unabashedly sentimental narratives of adventure, sexual intrigue and mystical experience starring slender, fine-featured adolescent boys.
In her best-selling sea books — "The Sea Around Us," "The Edge of the Sea" and "Under the Sea-Wind" — she used simple and sometimes sentimental narratives about the oceans to articulate sophisticated ideas about the inner workings of largely unseen things.
Downstairs in the same building Hirschl & Adler offers a group of paintings of women by the 19th-century French academician William Adolphe Bouguereau, whose art represents everything that early Modernists like van Gogh and Cézanne detested: neo-classical draftsmanship, polished technique, sentimental narratives and genteel eroticism.
Certainly if you consider the art on show in Untold Stories you will see that it is very far from being a series of sentimental narratives in which urchins and prostitutes cower in corners while romantic damsels wait to be rescued by a hunky St George.
(Bette Midler surprised and seduced audiences with just such a style as a singer at gay clubs 30-some years ago.) It's a musical approach that finds a common denominator in songs made famous by artists like Public Enemy (quaintly presented as an example of folk music) and the Scissors Sisters and sentimental narratives like "One Tin Soldier and Dan Fogelbergg's "Same Old Lang Syne".
As head of MI6, her relationship with her favourite secret agent is a strong, if at times overly-sentimental, narrative force as she helps us delve further into Bond's past.A clumsy third act gives way to a satisfyingly nostalgic ending which brings the franchise full circle.
