In the end there was no room for sentimental thoughts or emotional considerations.
Indulging in sentimental thoughts about the past used to be considered a sign of psychological weakness, similar to homesickness.
By John C. Mosher The New Yorker, March 12 , 1932P. 24 Sentimental thoughts of a man who thinks he is too good for a girl who comes to the city, and is waiting for him to call her up.
Lisa had a little cry, part relief and part sentimental thought of starting our lives together.
This funny, sentimental and thought-provoking play offered scenes from a recruit's life in the Russian Navy, including one of him sharing a meal of dog with a shipmate.
After 20 years of exile Irena's life is in Paris but, persuaded by Sylvie's sentimental tears, her thoughts run to literature, to the story of Odysseus, the "great magic" of his return.
He accused the Nobel-prize-winning Ms. Morrison, in her novel "Paradise," of "forever rushing in sentimental garments, with no thought of the plain and awkward clothes that carry a narrative, that make its solemnities moving and not simply ridiculous".
Ms. McKay and her band (Kenny Davis on bass, Ben Bynum on drums, Belinda Whitney on violin, Glenn Drewes on trumpet and Jay Berliner on guitar) created a musical world that balanced a lighthearted wistfulness ("Sentimental Journey," "The Very Thought of You") with a spirit of playful roughhouse (a sharply punctuated version of "Undecided" that accelerated as it gathered momentum).
I wanted to gush out in sentimental sobs, until the thought crossed my mind... "Wait a minute, bub, aren't you the dude planning on how he is going to tell his kids that there is NO Santa.
It helps them gather their thoughts in a sentimental format that is easy to put together but difficult to pull off.
He starts off with the thought that West is "whining," and concludes with the sentiment that "journalists, however sentimental, have been doing a better job".
