Sentence examples for sentimental scenes from inspiring English sources

The pilot episode balances goofy moments with sentimental scenes.

A few snarky yet sentimental scenes later, they've helped him realize his true destiny as Santa Claus.

Sentimental scenes of human life were, after all, what the Nazis and the Stalinists had championed.

Block does what she can with her underwritten and sentimental scenes, but only one rings true: Allen gets word that Garland has died.

This is like saying, in 19th-century Britain, "My goodness, I really love all this great Victorian art we have nowadays, with its sentimental scenes and frock-coated portraits, but I hate that vulgar Turner.

But despite all this, he's still a really great main character, evoking sympathy and support from the reader, especially in the more sentimental scenes with his father towards the end.

JUDITH THURMAN: No, and I thought the weakest scenes were the domestic ones — the sentimental scene where he is talking to his kid JUDITH THURMAN: Although I loved the vignette in the cereal department at the supermarket.

In a blatantly sentimental scene, Duparquet recalls for Ciboulette the death of his young lover, Mimì, singing in an aria that only her lace handkerchief is left to him.

Finishing a jigsaw, though, means you have restored something that was ugly and useless to begin with — the reproduction, on cardboard, of a great work of art, or a sentimental scene.

But if romantic, sentimental sex scenes might insult our intelligence or offend our aesthetics, they can be easier on the psyche than the sex in films like "Baise-Moi," "Intimacy" and "Romance," which is allowed to be sad, empty, desperate, banal, bleak, inevitable, stark, awkward, brightly lighted, depressing and truthful: sex that does not sweet-talk us at all.

His point is that the hyperrealistic and often sentimental domestic scenes popular during Victoria's reign (1837 1901) seem to have more in common with cherubic Hummel figurines than works that wag auction paddles.