Sentence examples for sentimental wish from inspiring English sources

It would be better to admit this fact, and admit that all adverse reviews are snarks to some degree, than to indulge the sentimental wish that malice might be debarred from the literary world.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, James explained to Julavits and her sympathizers that "all adverse reviews are snarks to some degree" and pours cold water over "the sentimental wish that malice might be debarred from the literary world".

The things that come up again and again in my books, like a man who thinks that you are beautiful just as you are: is that sentimental, wish-fulfillment bullshit that isn't ever going to happen in real life?

This is not a sentimental Christmas wish; it is a reality.

It was a vehicle for certain politically engaged intellectuals — people like Michael Harrington and Irving Howe — who, for temperamental, historical, and sentimental reasons, wished to identify themselves with European social democracy while taking a critical and independent (but sympathetic) stance vis-à-vis the Democratic Party.

This is, unfortunately, sentimental: how we wish life were, rather than how it is.

We are sentimental and ahistorical to wish it otherwise.

(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'END OF THE SPEAR' (PG-13, 112 minutes) This fact-based story of conflict and resolution between a primitive warrior tribe in Ecuador and North American missionaries in the mid-1950's is inspiring enough to make you wish that the sentimental excesses of this Kiplingesque tale had been reined in.

The eleven-year-old Tommy Campbell Ricky Nelsonn), travelling with his wealthy family in Rome, is sick of studying French with his sentimental young governess (Leslie Caron) and wishes that he were grown up and free of her.

Redmond wishes to condemn sentimental identifications with the non-human world, but while a poem in the voice of a dodo must speak across an unbridgeable divide, the pragmatic uselessness of the exercise can just as easily be an opportunity for hard-headedness as for self-delusion.

Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.