The phrase "sentimental score" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a musical score that evokes strong emotions or feelings.
Example: "The film's sentimental score perfectly complemented the heartwarming scenes, leaving the audience in tears."
Alternatives: "emotional soundtrack" or "touching score."
A big, sentimental score!
As for the production, there's nothing wrong in theory with a stark "Faust" in tension with Gounod's lush, sentimental score.
Nor are they accompanied by a sentimental score; instead we hear birds, fellow walkers and the sound of Ms Witherspoon herself, panting heavily or swearing into the echo of interminable caves after losing a boot.
This submersion was lessened by a rather sentimental score for solo piano, played by a Bard student, Kazio Sosnowski; pretty rather than meaningful, it narrowed the dance's emotional range, blunting its more sinister and mysterious shadings.
Giselle, now a spirit, is commanded by the queen of the spirits to lure Albrecht to death by her dancing; instead, she rescues him before returning to her grave.It is all in the best early 19th-century German Romantic taste: jovial peasants, gloomy forests, simpering maidens dancing in a line, and a dreadfully sentimental score.
When Cheryl's Judaism teacher tells her "this is the body God gave you" and immediately after we see her repeating this to Mark, it all starts to feel a little forced, as does the sentimental score's crescendo.
With its simulated sex scenes shot largely in soft focus, an exotic locale and a sentimental pop score, the film became an avatar of soft-core pornography.
Replete with moving letters from the trenches, gut-wrenching stories of bereaved families, and a sentimental orchestral score, Teenage Tommies (BBC2) retold the stories of five adolescents sent over the top during the Great War.
It features Alexei Ratmansky's exhilarating "Concerto DSCH"; an all-principal cast for Peter Martins's new "Naïve and Sentimental Music" (to a score of the same title by John Adams); and an appearance (in Balanchine's "Rubies") by the marvelous Paris Opera Ballet étoiles Aurélie Dupont and Mathias Heymann.
The acting is stilted, the orchestral score too sentimental for my taste, and the storyline etched in obvious contours.
Possibly, some did not feel comfortable answering both items about sexual and sentimental life, but the score of this dimension was considered as missing when at least one item was not answered.
