Sentence examples for sentimental work from inspiring English sources

I don't want to make sentimental work, that's what I hate most — sentimentality is the flip side of cynicism.

Since 1998, he has been showing his lurid, sentimental work in regular seasons at City Center.

In his most sentimental work, Hirst freezes in time a young sheep running in the fields.

In Memoriam is sometimes thought of, by those who have not read it, as a cosy, or sentimental work.

But it's a bit of a disappointment coming from Mr. Baecher, who has offered New Chamber more muscular and less sentimental work in the past.

The new Vue de l'Autre, by company dancer Van Le Ngoc, is a wafty sentimental work, with couples clasping roses or waving scarves.

These sentimental works were later referred to by Verga as novels "of elegance and adultery".

And it has also included a string of sentimental works by unmemorable writers.

The most conventionally dramatic and sentimental works — often about the individual, inevitable betrayals of Afghans by people working for foreign governments — tend to be clumsier.

And for all the elaborate political and philosophical debates, the ultimate message isn't that different from many, more conventionally sentimental works of fiction: Choose life, it's all we have.

(Kehr) La Vita e Cinema: The Films of Nanni Moretti (Friday through Thursday) The Italian actor-director Mr. Moretti is probably best known here for two uncharacteristically sentimental works — his 1994 "Caro Diario" and his 2001 "The Son's Room" — although his work can also be bitterly satiric, politically engaged and teasingly surreal.