Sentence examples for sentimental vision from inspiring English sources

This year though Mr. Arthus-Bertrand is determined to convert American audiences to his sentimental vision of the environment.

As he illustrated with a few phrases on his viola da gamba, a sentimental vision of global unity acquired heartbreaking force.

The sentimental vision of improvised families is based on the total commitment and total dependence of a black man whose deferential manner reeks of subjugation and fear.

It described a distinctly Southern and grossly sentimental vision of the United States, mixing radical conservatism, anti-Communism and strident anticapitalism, with overtones of fascism.

The sentimental vision of the virtuous woman remaining in her homestead was a cultural myth that bore little resemblance to the evolving realities of the 19th century.

At the fringes of the party conference, to which he is nowadays consigned, he still moves audiences who have not heard it all before with his sentimental vision of the Labour movement as the descendant of the 17th-century Levellers.

Speaking at Princeton University, Clegg said: "Those campaigning for us to leave the European Union like to evoke a sentimental, nostalgic vision of Britannia, proud and independent, ruling the waves once again.

Perhaps it was not the city itself she wanted to turn her back on, but rather a sentimental, sanitised popular vision of it.

Entitled New York Fantasy, this was a shamelessly sentimental, sepia-hued vision of New York style, referencing the kind of clothes one would expect in a 1970s Woody Allen film: chunky tweed jackets over pretty diaphanous dresses, mannish trousers paired with nippy leather jackets, delicate pleated dresses over thick wool tights.

Some critics also view his sentimental and nostalgic vision out of step with the harsh realities of American life, such as the Great Depression.

The movie offers a vision of sentimental unity for the common good in a town where people — white people — go out of their way to help each other.