Sentence examples for sentimental tone from inspiring English sources

Broke again, he was playing in a softly sentimental tone.

As he recalls these events, his sentimental tone turns indignant.

A sentimental tone mars somewhat the tragic introspection of Le Perce-Oreille du Luxembourg (1928; "The Earwig of Luxembourg").

Even the pro-Saudi news media, normally critical of Mr. Hussein, chimed in with a more sentimental tone.

Splick is also accused of being misogynistic, and it's a problem — given the film's overall sentimental tone — that it feels true.

For instance, a television and print campaign with a distinctly sentimental tone encourages consumers to return to small businesses that have reopened in Lower Manhattan.

She referred to the office as "the museum" and fell into the sentimental tones that her father eschewed, saying, "I grew up here, and, you know, it might be the last time I ever see it".

My Black Thoughts compatriots did not proclaim their yearning for this tranquil pastoral alternative as explicitly as did Ngugi, nor did they take on any of the sentimental tones of Leopold Senghor's early "Negritude" poetry.

There are lots of romantic anti-rationalisms to play with; Rousseau's was largely soft and sentimental in tone, rather than apocalyptic and violent.

It's going on too long, it's sentimental, the tone's too heavy, there are too many sentences with same rhythm, there's an inadvertent repetition.

The melodramatic plot in which each man really does kill the thing he loves creates, in microcosm, the sentimental, histrionic tone of Baldwin's later, unwieldy novels, notably "Another Country".