Sentence examples for sentimental play from inspiring English sources

Mr. Culkin's performance in this short, sweet and extravagantly sentimental play isn't all that accomplished by traditional standards.

The duo cowrote the score, and Martin penned the book for the sentimental play about two connected love stories in North Carolina during the 1920s and '40s.

The intense, luminous Macaulay Culkin, now 20, is ideally cast as the passive center of this short, sweet and extravagantly sentimental play by Richard Nelson.

(There was also one sweetly sentimental play when center Jeff Saturday switched teams in the middle of the game so he could snap one final ball to former teammate Peyton Manning).

In the opening scene of "The Pride," Alexi Kaye Campbell's seriously sentimental play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, two men meet for the first time at the house one shares with his wife, and the room is stifling with the heat of the unsaid.

In this shaky but likable production of Noel Coward's deeply sentimental play from 1960, Ms. Harris plays a former West End star who now lives in royal exile in a theater retirement home, and her performance evokes a whole existence spent before footlights: every lofty, delicate gesture registers like a thunderclap.

Along with Sheridan, a fellow Irishman, Goldsmith changed the course of the English theater from the polite and sentimental plays of the day to lampooning satires that mocked the snobbery of London society.

Three shows I saw recently all feature death as an imminent possibility or reality, and, although each production handles what Henry James called "the distinguished thing" differently, they all, like most weak or sentimental plays on the subject, include a lot of talk or foreshadowing about It before It happens.

Let's face it, in its 88 years, there are instances where actors were awarded Oscars not because they were truly the category's strongest, but because they were the most popular, the most sentimental, played the studio politics game with the most savvy, played the most likable character, the actor whose character dies from the most horrible disease, etc.

In Nicholas Wright's earnestly sentimental drama, Ms. Higgins plays Ursula Loyer, a middle-aged widow in South London in the 1870's, who takes in a young lodger from the Netherlands named (gasp) Vincent van Gogh (Jochum ten Haaf).

"Mothers are dead in fairy tales," snaps Gil, the snap-happy protagonist of "Wild With Happy," a sweet, funny and forgivably sentimental new play written by and starring Colman Domingo.