Sentence examples for sentimental ones from inspiring English sources

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I tend to like the sentimental ones and the weepy ones, unfortunately.

For some good reasons, though, and some sentimental ones, too, you stop questioning the authenticity of Woodstock itself when you discover why Kopple chose a certain couple as interview subjects.

Thus in a poem called "Rhythm and Blues," in his new collection, the poet finds himself after a funeral scrutinizing the other mourners "like a policeman taking notes,/sorting out the real tears from the sentimental ones".

In Brussels, our days were filled with touristic excursions — the Grand' Place, the Atomium (a 335-foot-high model of an atomic crystal, with a cafe serving waffles at its center) — and sentimental ones.

But Waldfogel's studies also suggest a very different solution: if most of the presents we buy are going to be less valuable in monetary terms than in sentimental ones, then there's no reason to believe that the more expensive gift is a better gift.

The way to prevent abuses is to create sympathy in the strong for the weak, and the way to do that is by telling stories — "long, sad, sentimental" ones, in the words of the philosopher Richard Rorty — through which the strong will begin to see the weak as fellow-creatures, worthy of protection and care.

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"I tend to be the more earnest and sentimental one," says Price. "If it's sad, bring it on.

He is not even a sentimental one.

But it's not a sentimental one.

"He wasn't sentimental; I was the sentimental one," said Mrs. Rogan.

They say the terrible division of Germany was not the political one but the sentimental one.

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