They announce with now public labels the bearers' once private passions, proudly combining sentimental rebelliousness with a sharp appeal.
She sang them with the full range of her voice, making them twice as good, with a kind of severe passion, only semi-sentimental, following their unsettling, unresolving melodic trajectories.
No man who knows his way around a coverlet needs Nabokov to supply pickup lines like: "Yes, we Russians are sentimental eccentrics, but believe me, we can love with the passion of a Rasputin and the naïveté of a child.
This strange and nasty habit... became hateful to me when, after the Revolution and in proportion as it was betrayed, I watched all sorts of affected tastes and sentimental foolishness taking the place of the noblest passions...
Like Frédéric Moreau in Flaubert's "Sentimental Education", he seeks literary success and a grand passion in a sophisticated city; unlike Frédéric, he appears to have no appetite for life, for food, for drink, for sensual pleasure.
Love is not merely sentimental.
In the face of so much passion, Borg decided the trophies were, after all, of sentimental value and ended up buying them back from the auction house.
He makes Jack's passion for White Fang real and keeps it from being ridiculous or overly sentimental".
André Téchiné) A classically French tale of artistry, passion, adultery and anxiety, starring André Dussollier (if French cinema has an equivalent to the sentimental Brit notion of a national treasure, it is surely Dussollier).
But in tones strong and plaintive, and sometimes sweet, and with a linguistic manner alternately ironic, sentimental and tinged by a hint of bitterness, he expounded generously on his life's twin passions: football and firefighting.
Her music -- a mixture of pop, rock, and Gypsy-based Russian folk with sentimental lyrics that are nearly impossible to translate -- largely depicts a woman struggling with her passions, a woman wronged, but determined to go on.
