Sentence examples for sentimental without from inspiring English sources

Its strength is arguably as valuable as the ability of other series to agitate their fans: it manages to be warm, even sentimental, without being dumb.

He is sentimental and slapdash; when you read a name like Parson Quiverful, you yell, "Try harder, Trollope!" Sentimental without (unlike Dickens) the ability to make me cry.

Furthermore, there is an italicised ghost voice running through the text which yearns for both commemoration and closure but distracts without contributing anything significant; the story would be leaner and less sentimental without it.

Allmusic held the album in high regard, describing "his lovelorn lyrics" as being "sentimental without being penetrating.

It's sentimental without being mawkish, and not afraid to get a little weird, on the one hand, or a little serious, on the other.

Classic Mr. Rogers: simple, kind and, if you're a fool or just not paying attention, you might dismiss those words as sentimental without realizing just how powerful and important what he's saying really is.

His portrait of a Tokyo teenager named Satoru who works part time in a record shop and falls in love with a pretty customer is finely observed: tender without being sentimental, funny without being snide.

While it's easy to get lost amid the branches of the voluminous family tree (thankfully, Venezia supplies a diagram), the storytelling, as translated by Marina Harss, is enchanting — imbued with sentiment without being sentimental.

It also helped perpetuate this idea that what women do in music is acoustic, sincere, sentimental and without an edge to it".

It was like a welling, congested, sentimental weepiness without an object, as emotions triggered by images of, say, a depressed-looking girl smoking in bed and some unspecific tragedy in a crowded street sought cathartic resolution, in vain.

It was thus possible, after the war, to commemorate the service of fathers and grandfathers, and even to treat them with a measure of sentimental reverence, without condoning the atrocities of the Third Reich.