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How to use sentimentalist in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sentimentalist? Here are some examples.

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Ira is portrayed as a sentimentalist who is viscerally and passionately indignant about the inherent inequalities and injustices of America.
Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
Remember, this is the man that described himself as a sentimentalist, not a romantic.
The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness.
But it would be quite wrong to conclude from her subject matter that she was a soft-centered, weak sentimentalist.
I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart.
But he is no sentimentalist, and never shies from the harsh realities of that lonely spot.
The musician never added his own personality, but he simply transmitted the music to his fellowmen of that inaccessible sentimentalist pursuit.
But it would be unfair to characterise Daldry as a proselytiser, or even as a sentimentalist.
Mr Hester, no asset-stripper but no sentimentalist either, is aware of this.
Prose fiction made its appearance at the end of the century in the works of the sentimentalist Nikolay Karamzin.
Well, Marcus Tanner is certainly no sentimentalist but I can't stamp my seal on this last self-assessment.
That sadness, I am learning, is the province of the sentimentalist.
I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
The emotionally blundering sentimentalist dewily loves humanity in general while falling in miserable love with a monotonous succession of human beings in particular, each somehow exactly wrong.
Call me a softheaded sentimentalist, but I was surprised at that attitude, a bit scandalized, in fact.
But he thinks that the sentimentalist owes us an account of how a sense of justice that is sometimes opposed to benevolence and sympathy can nonetheless develop out of such motives.
He is a born sentimentalist and seems to have a strong family instinct which inclines him to adopt and cherish all the small dogs of the neighbourhood.
Manetas: a sentimentalist who ignores himself.
Examples from Classical Literature
I'm not a sentimentalist, but I liked the eights, and I mean to keep this souvenir.
They are sisters for him because he is neither sentimentalist nor devourer.
He was above all things a sentimentalist, this son of a Genevan clockmaker.
The sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it.
Indeed, I had always supposed that there was nothing of the sentimentalist about him.
A sentimentalist, a man of heart, would quickly have it broken with the pity of it all.
Your intellectualist is not to be blamed if he fails to write as a sentimentalist.
I do not take you for a sentimentalist or a redresser of wrongs.
And, you see, I am just as much of a sentimentalist as he was.
For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and sentimentalist in Truth.
He was a savage sentimentalist who had his own decided views of his paternal prerogatives.
And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
Young though she was, Polly was no sentimentalist in religion.
That they were men of the finest type only the sentimentalist can declare.
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