| Because they pretend, I think, to be macho guys, but you see what sentimentalists they really are. |
| In modern times, we sometimes tend to be literalists and sentimentalists. |
| Compared to this, the goodfellas seem like sedentary sentimentalists, trapped animals rooted in dying communities, doomed territories. |
| Sentimentalists will moan that the TV has replaced the traditional fireplace as the focus of family attention over the holidays, but we say bah, humbug to that. |
| Prominent, on the other hand, among the sentimentalists is Laurence Sterne, who, inappropriately enough, was a clergyman, the author of 'Tristram Shandy. |
