Sentence examples for terribly sentimental from inspiring English sources
That might seem terribly sentimental; really, it's just sentiment.
"At the risk of sounding terribly sentimental, I do think one of the things that just compel us is that we have this sense that, in some way, by caring, we're actually serving humanity," he said.
Fortunately, Ungerer has never been terribly inconvenienced by sentimental notions, as we see in another excerpt from "No Such Stories": Mr. Limpid is blind.
That's a sentimental and not terribly complex idea, and one wishes it wasn't presented with such, well, gravity.
He could write this terribly passionate music from his soul, yet he would never get sentimental because he would take the sentimental edge off it by his wit and sophistication".
ON Page 2 of Nick Hornby's unexpectedly sentimental new novel, the central character admits that the story of her life isn't terribly original.
"But there is not quite enough there: the still waters run very cool but not terribly deep, and 'The American' falls back into a view of its protagonist that is ultimately more sentimental than unsettling or intriguing".
Of the writer's "Volcano" reference, she writes: I think it's that doomed sense of Mexico as a kind of hallucinogenic place of last resort for renegades, which is also terribly Catholic and ritualistic, where people are enchanted by death and unafraid of the continuum between life and death, sentimental but also not.
His emotional imprint shows too — these scenes are more overtly sentimental than the rest of the movie, and the climactic fight between the protagonist and his son is terribly softened.
