Sentence examples for sentimental recollection from inspiring English sources

"Way Past Cool" awkwardly straddles two genres, the violent urban thriller and the sentimental recollection of childhood, a little as if "Boyz N the Hood" had been crossbred with "Stand by Me".

After three weeks of disturbing testimony in the trial of a man accused of fatally shaking his 2-month-old daughter in 2007, the defendant's lawyer stood before the jury and began his summation with an oddly sentimental recollection about his own childhood.

Many of the Sept. 11 books now being published are sentimental recollections of loved ones; another hefty segment is about criticism of American policy before and after Sept. 11.

The idea was to see if the studio could placate the audience that had flocked to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" — the twenty-nine per cent of Americans who, the studio's research said, consider themselves evangelical or "Bible-minded" — even if that meant making the film less faithful to Genesis and more faithful to people's sentimental recollections of Genesis.

The idea was to see if the studio could placate the audience that had flocked to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"—the twenty-nine per cent of Americans who, the studio's research said, consider themselves evangelical or "Bible-minded"—even if that meant making the film less faithful to Genesis and more faithful to people's sentimental recollections of Genesis.

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Of course, you're going to see as many broken dreams as you are sentimental recollections of clubs these people danced, fucked, drank and drugged in, but that have long since gone the way of all things.

I remember my own graduation like it was yesterday and it was sentimental, although I have no recollection of who the commencement speaker was.

Was grangerizing, or "extra illustration" an "exquisite handicraft" or merely "breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one?" When it came to the inclusion of non-illustrative elements — playbills inserted into "Romeo and Juliet," for example — was it ruining a book for the sake of personal recollection, creating a paean to a rotten or sentimental memory?

But allow me to leave with one final recollection: at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Sebastian performed the song Darling Be Home Soon, a sentimental little ditty about friendship, self-understanding and hope.

The author's recollections of her childhood, and of a world that had partly vanished, are poignant but never sentimental, as they might have been 20 years earlier.