Sentence examples for sentimental theme from inspiring English sources
And as the film progresses, and the plot darkens and the townspeople become more threatening, the sentimental theme gradually emerges and takes over the comic theme until, by the emotional climax of the film, the sentimental theme has triumphed.
"So there is a crescendo, from the beginning of the film to the end, of this sentimental theme and a diminuendo of the comic theme," Mr. Morricone said.
The great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's melancholy family saga "There Was a Father" (Criterion), made in 1942, was approved by wartime censors for its sentimental theme of dutiful sacrifice, yet it, too, confronts abusive authority.
Mr. Gordon's "Clouded Yellow" was unusually bright and airy; in "Love Bleeds Radiant," by Dan Visconti, a sentimental theme purred through recorded crackle and explosive outbursts to a peaceful resolution.
The film's lush, sentimental theme song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, quickly became a standard and won an Academy Award for best song.
"What is new and different in this film, both for me and I think for anybody, is that within this comic theme is hidden a nostalgic and sentimental theme," Mr. Morricone said.
Like most of the R & B vocal groups of its era, the Clovers specialized in sweet harmonies and sentimental themes.
As heard on his new record, "Perceptual" (Blue Note/ EMI), they're hymnlike semi-pop tunes with improvisation, using dreamy drones and sentimental themes recalling the work John Coltrane produced out of his religious conviction.
The final gallery returns us to that dreamy, color-saturated realm, and the overwhelming sense is that Chagall rarely extended himself, wrapping his art in sentimental themes that were ill-served by his appropriation of Cubism and other more rational modernist styles.
Finally, journalists are at fault in converging always on the same sentimental themes, and conspiring with the aid organisations to present a story without corners, on the principle that "If you don't have starving babies you don't get the money".
They are sentimental in theme but realistic in setting and reveal an affectionate regard for all the daily sights, sounds, and activities of London.
