It was a powerful influence on later, less-ironic sentimental writing.
Last year, he got extra sentimental, writing, "I've told you 'I love you' at least 8,285 times.
He felt the setting and cinematography was "typical Hollywood overstatement", and that as a whole found that Terhune's "sentimental writing" did not do well in film form, calling the resulting film "cloying" and a "minor, unsung film".
When she's not cracking people up on Twitter she can be found making them cry with her sentimental writing online in The Huffington Post, Club Mid, Scary Mommy, Today Parents, Mamapedia and What The Flicka?. She's married to a firefighter and they decided long ago it's better to laugh and make things up as they go than cry with a plan.
It's Ms. Mailer's own plucky and sometimes sentimental autobiography, written in the lemony sweet-tea mode of Southern novelists like Lee Smith.
Unlike the famously sentimental O. Henry, Buck writes sparely, tugging at her readers' heartstrings solely through the thoughts and actions of her plain-spoken characters.
"A wonderfully easy, confident and muscular performance from Jeff Bridges – so easy, confident and muscular that it doesn't look like acting at all – saves this movie from being pure sentimental mush," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.
Mr. Veloso's own records, however, rarely sell more than 250,000 copies in Brazil, and when he finally had a million-selling No. 1 hit four years ago, it was with a sentimental ballad written by another songwriter and tacked on to the soundtrack of a television soap opera.
Melancholy and unabashedly sentimental, Mr. Valo writes lyrics that make teenage angst more appealing by exaggerating it; there's something decadent about the way he sings, "I cry like God cries the rain," singing a lyric most rock stars would be embarrassed even to think.
But, two questions: first, what is the wonder by which even a stage-bound, implausible, and sentimental comedy, written by the obscure, performed by the charisma-challenged, and directed by a great artist utterly out of his element, can, with a tilt of the head, come off as a synecdoche for the streetwise turbulence of the era?
Literary journalist Alex Clark said: "Is he really saying that writers such as Hilary Mantel, AS Byatt, Iris Murdoch are sentimental or write feminine tosh?" Literary critic Helen Brown described them as "arrogant, attention-seeking".He should heed the words of George Eliot – a female writer – whose works have had a far more profound impact on world culture than his".
