Sentence examples for sentimental strain from inspiring English sources

(That sequence is also a wry and bilious parody of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" and its sentimental strain).

Look back at how Obama described the country in his earlier State of the Union addresses and it is hard not to notice a sentimental strain.

Yet the didacticism, echoed in the children's sometimes unwieldy recitations, is off-putting, and the device makes the film's healthy sentimental strain feel manipulative.

Filled with evocative characters — Forbes wrote a great deal for radio, and her ear for dialogue is sweet and snappy — the book's occasional sentimental strain wasn't done away with in John Van Druten's 1944 stage adaptation.

The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.

It has its sentimental strains, but it doesn't push them too hard, or resort to the crude, pandering humor of, say, the "Shrek" franchise.

Wilder limns the tale's eroticism with droll touches seemingly borrowed from Lubitsch (including several involving the sentimental strains of "Fascination" played by hired fiddlers), and the ending is a classic of whirlwind romanticism.

Perhaps Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. would have joined Zbigniew Turski in the Olympian musical ranks, for the sentimental strains that long accompanied the title credits to "The Young and the Restless," and later became known as "Nadia's Theme," in tribute to the gymnast Nadia Comaneci.

This is attentive, rich prose about New York in crisis that, refreshingly, is not also prose in crisis: it's not overwrought or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental, or otherwise straining to be noticed.

Scattershot segments visit cheesy attractions that signal desperation on the part of field producers, and Mr. Bourdain's narration turns both jokey and sentimental as he strains to compensate.

His spare time is spent watching old black-and-white videos of an exotic TV cook called Gala (Arsinée Khanjian doing Fanny Craddock with an outrageous French accent), whose work he scrupulously emulates in his rather grand kitchen to the strains of sentimental 1950s ballads like 'My Special Angel' and 'Faith of a Child'.