"sentimental style" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a writing style or tone that evokes strong feelings of nostalgia, emotion, or sentimentality. Example: The author's use of poetic language and vivid descriptions created a sentimental style that tugged at the reader's heartstrings.
It's a thoughtful look at the knock-on effect of the war on civilians, in Morpurgo's usual sentimental style.
Les Épreuves (1866; "Trials"), and Les Solitudes (1869; "Solitude") are also written in this first, sentimental style.
In "Mark Twain" that makes for a maddening collision between Twain's ironic sensibility and Mr. Burns's familiar, sentimental style.
Written in a self-revealing style influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Laurence Sterne, the "Letters" helped introduce to Russia the sentimental style then popular in western Europe.
He hoped to create a new kind of religious music that would be more direct and moving than the rather sentimental style popular at the time.
Taymor was considered an unusual choice to design the staging of Disney's The Lion King for Broadway, given how dissimilar her aesthetic was to the whimsical and sentimental style of Disney animation.
Now, for a host of reasons, these sentimental styles are seen as attractive as a truck farm in Vermont.
Zwick's conservative, humanist-sentimental style still has life in its aging limbs.
Although he stated that his ambition was to become "the best Ethiopian [i.e., Negro minstrel] song writer," he vacillated between composing minstrel songs (for which he is largely remembered) and songs in the sentimental "respectable" style then popular.
It has a bit of sentimental 'Nam-style paraphernalia: Hendrix's Voodoo Chile as the choppers take off, famine-hit civilians called "skinnies" (nice touch, guys) and newcomers told to call the capital "Mog" or "The Mog".
Set in 1965 in a small Southern California town, "That's What I Am" is a sentimental Hallmark-style movie (part after-school special, part "Wonder Years" offshoot) whose narrator, Andy Nichol (voiced by an uncredited actor who sounds like Greg Kinnear), looks back on his middle-school experience.
