Sentence examples for sentimental tendencies from inspiring English sources

The painting's broken diagonals hold Chagall's sentimental tendencies in check, evoking the bleary-eyed sensations of the wee hours.

Instead Fulham, a club with sentimental tendencies of their own, deserve the place in the semi-finals that Steve Marlet's goal at the outset of the second half secured.

But he's undone by a sentimental tendency when it comes to his granddaughter.

His previous films, "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" and "Nine Lives," have demonstrated the sincerity of this fascination, and also a quiet, at times almost imperceptible sentimental side, a tendency to view womanhood as sacred and fundamentally tragic.

His critical vision was obscured by a tendency toward sentimental melodrama, however.

But a tendency toward sentimental archetypes makes it less harsh, more accessible and, consequently, more like children's theater.

Libeskind has a tendency to use sentimental metaphors.

Mr. Boehner, who cracked jokes about mispronunciations of his name and his well-known tendency to shed sentimental tears, sounded deeply relieved to be out of the fray.

He says that among the reasons we hound the violators is our tendency to "wax sentimental over the idea of informal play," youngsters making their own rules and finding their own pleasures in sport.

In a sentimental mood, she has a tendency to lapse into a wide-eyed, superlative mode: having her portrait hung at a health clinic was "the most important honor of my life"; her meeting Morgenthau was its "most special moment"; the late Judge Fred Parker had an "intellect as deep as the Grand Canyon, and... a heart as big as a lion".

And though people with crying tendencies will cry at the end, there is nothing sentimental about it.