Sentence examples for sentimental sense from inspiring English sources

Of Austen he said he "couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world".

It is hard not to see Chaplin as essentially childlike, though not in any sentimental sense of the phrase.

Surely it would be hard for anyone other than Abramovich to imagine it as "ours", even in the loosest, most sentimental sense.

Wink is suffering from some kind of blood disorder and perhaps, in a more sentimental sense, the broken heart caused by the absence of Hushpuppy's mother.

In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday, Mr. Naipaul, 78, derided Jane Austen, saying he "couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world," according to the Guardian.

There's a fascinating scene in which Dowd – whose self-pitying and sentimental sense of his own cop identity never entirely leaves him – almost breaks down in tears recounting the death of another officer, shot by villains.

Like any successful theatre, it works for reasons that might be thought to be sentimental: a sense of community, of common purpose, of "family".

But I am wary of being overly sentimental and I sense an opportunity.

The proposed war against and rebuilding of Iraq has brought the sentimental, self-satisfied sense of Providence back into fashion.

Postwar people who fastened onto the story of Anne Frank, as has been observed before, were not in any sense sentimental to do so.

There was nothing sentimental (in the sense of treacly, unearned emotion) about Wilder's discomfortingly open-hearted performances.