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How to use sentimental in a sentence

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I have never entertained a sentimental attachment to the poverty or hardships my ancestors endured.
No, I just couldn't believe that he was sentimental enough to risk his life for the vague chance of a new family member.
The cards, covered in pastel colors and sentimental mush, were of the lovey-dovey variety.
She has now played four tournaments and won three of them, but there is very little sentimental about her.
Thus, if we are to associate Hawthorne's explanation of sympathy with any genre, it should not be with either romance or sentimental fiction.
This sappy, sentimental, self-congratulatory awards show sums up much that's loathsome about America.
Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges.
When he died in 1784 he was chiefly known as a sentimental playwright and art critic.
I'm a historian with a long memory and a sentimental attachment to my past.
There is still a sizeable holding in the family, which has a strong sentimental attachment to the company.
These sentimental tableaux vivants were often criticized and ridiculed in her own day.
If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads.
But even with these problems, the film is cute and fun without being overly sentimental or sappy.
The script, though comical in areas, was much too sentimental and downright sappy for me to voluntarily accept.
In Stage 5, I take this tremendously sentimental display of family history and tart it up with lots of spaceships and cartoon characters.
Like both satire and the sentimental, the uncanny as a literary category has been the subject of significant theoretical work.
Behind this lies a genuine satiric point about the booming heritage industry's dependence on quaint appellations and sentimental conservation.
Replaying breakup or accident scenes heightens their sentimental power, akin to repeatedly ripping the scab off a wound.
For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
And that's just sentimental schmaltz and keeps sort of slowing down the movie, when you want to see this crisp, involving action story.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He is the only one who has attempted the lachrymose, the sentimental novel.
He felt more sentimental than he cared to show, and the topsy-turvydom of the room made him fidgety.
And so those who are ascetically disposed, if not in their life, in their tastes, condemn Renoir as pretty and sentimental.
He knew that he had that sentimental disorder which he called 'acedia,' and wished to be rid of it.
This liaison was largely sentimental, and marked by a kind of etherealized sensuality.
Somewhere at a distance a sentimental orchestra was playing, possibly at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Marthy, I don't want it to get out, but you're a plum' luny sentimental old maid fool!
It meant renunciation of all social and sentimental diversions of Kankakee.
The advice to do the next thing and not cry over spilt milk is ever so much better than sentimental recalling of the past.
The learned Dean has been sneered at for a supposed sentimental and effeminate attachment to the textus receptus.
The character of these pieces is prevailingly sentimental, and the tempi were not so quick then as now.
Had I been an infant Sterne, here was a grand chance for sentimental output!
She is too sentimental, too prudish with her vow and its sophistical evasion.
She was a horsewoman and a hunter, and she had a sentimental fondness for Indians.
Joro was a monarchist for sentimental reasons, not for the profits that might accrue to him.
It bore the name of this marvel, this solver of the sentimental riddle, and beneath it three interrogation marks.
Thus a specious air of classical antiquity, rather literary and sentimental than real, was given to the Commune at the outset.
This was the first time she had ever heard Martin ask for something as sentimental as a kiss.
The actual value of the trophy, aside from its sentimental value, was said to be thirty-six dollars.
By an odd chance, I once saw a real scene contrasting remarkably with saint-pierre's sentimental melodrama.
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