Sentence examples for sentimental reading from inspiring English sources

His wife offers a less sentimental reading.

But there is, in the eighteenth-century sense, a "sentimental" reading of the book that recommends itself as well, and somewhat escaped Gardner's mathematical-modelling mind.

The headline, grotesquely sentimental, read: "Together again".

The Oakley-Krause reunion had all the trimmings for a sentimental read, but now the story has forked into something less than sappy.

The language of flowers was originally generated in France specifically for women to read: sentimental meanings of flowers were arbitrarily assigned and varied depending on the book to which they referred.

Perhaps the beleaguering bludgeon of the Bush administration's incompetence, secrecy, and downright mean-spiritedness have compelled me to read sentimental meaning into coincidences, but this week truly feels like a refreshing turn of the page.

For me, reading Middlemarch or Sentimental Education is work, whereas The Catcher in the Rye is pure pleasure.

I'm imagining someone reading this and thinking "what a sentimental rube".

Hersov's reading unflinchingly targets the play's anti-sentimental core.

Austen does not spare Sir Edward, who "had read more sentimental novels than agreed with him".

In an unhurried, sometimes magical, performance, she sang determinedly and ferociously, elevating lyrics that can read as sentimental and flat on record.