Sentence examples for sentimental notion from inspiring English sources

Forget the sentimental notion of an athlete going out on top, he told her.

Raine led the way, wryly lamenting "this pathetic, sentimental notion Ian has that people like live music".

It also revives the older, sentimental notion that the two "Alice" books really belong to the literature of subversive protest.

This seems not some mortal's sentimental notion of angelic music but the real thing, unearthly, confusing but wondrous.

A sentimental notion, I knew, one better suited to that Irish aunt who first brought him here nearly a century ago.

Among other things, we will give up the sentimental notion that one of the cardinal functions of education is to bring out the individual nature of every child.

Many Kurds cling to sentimental notions of an independent state.

In the end, Lydia abandons her sentimental notions and agrees to marry Jack.

Sentimental notions and flights of extreme anthropomorphism abound in "The Puppy Diaries".

They argue that public alarm is being fed by media scare-stories, which thrive on ignorance and sentimental notions of pre-industrial farming.

Fortunately, Ungerer has never been terribly inconvenienced by sentimental notions, as we see in another excerpt from "No Such Stories": Mr. Limpid is blind.