Sentence examples for silly sentiment from inspiring English sources
No silly sentiment, just chrome murder engines astride rows of charred corpses.I would encourage you to reevaluate your stance on this important issue.
As Sally, a chatty young woman with a penchant for silly sentiment (she feels bad for the radio when it turns out to have been left on in an empty apartment), Elizabeth Bunch has the open-faced prettiness of a Midwestern innocent, and she is quite persuasive and fetching in her growing pains as she casts off her naïveté with both resolve and reluctance.
Our music used to be played by skilled orchestras; intelligible singers rendered tunes about dancing in the dark while orchids bloomed in the moonlight and nightingales sang in Berkeley Square and stars fell on Alabama -- silly sentiments, but carried along by intelligent melodic phraseology, and if the words were doggerel they were often wonderfully compelling.
The tone of the piece shifts from silly mockery to earned sentiment as we learn about Mr. Oberzan's brother's drug addiction and imprisonment and how their relationship sustained him.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times commented, "... despite its generally able reenactments, this film is so laced with sentiment of the silliest and most theatrical nature that much of its impressiveness is marred".
Dyson sympathized with Hagis' anticommercial sentiment but thought it silly to make the point on a NASA site.
"Wicked" always seemed like an unusual marriage of styles and sensibilities -- knowing irony and earnest sentiment, self-serious politics and silly frivolity, an intimate teenage drama and a $14 million special-effects blockbuster.
If constant reimmersion in the DVDs has not cured you, a visit to the Walter Kerr Theater may temporarily salve those cravings for underworld intrigue, Old World sentiment and scary men with silly nicknames.
Marla Frazee (who illustrates the Clementine series and Mary Ann Hoberman's "Seven Silly Eaters," and is also a two-time Caldecott Honor winner) holds back on sentiment, for the most part, and maximizes the laughs.
The prevailing sentiment within the party, at this early juncture at least, is that the silly season of the campaign will turn.
Their thoughts, feelings, conversations and affections are so unformed, so hampered by sentiment and underpowered awkwardness that the courage, endurance and understanding ascribed to them seem silly.
