I would try selling the pendant first to a cousin, but, despite being a family heirloom, I don't have a great sentimental attachment to it. |
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No, I just couldn't believe that he was sentimental enough to risk his life for the vague chance of a new family member. |
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The cards, covered in pastel colors and sentimental mush, were of the lovey-dovey variety. |
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She has now played four tournaments and won three of them, but there is very little sentimental about her. |
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Thus, if we are to associate Hawthorne's explanation of sympathy with any genre, it should not be with either romance or sentimental fiction. |
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This sappy, sentimental, self-congratulatory awards show sums up much that's loathsome about America. |
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Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges. |
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When he died in 1784 he was chiefly known as a sentimental playwright and art critic. |
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I'm a historian with a long memory and a sentimental attachment to my past. |
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There is still a sizeable holding in the family, which has a strong sentimental attachment to the company. |
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These sentimental tableaux vivants were often criticized and ridiculed in her own day. |
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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. |
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But even with these problems, the film is cute and fun without being overly sentimental or sappy. |
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The script, though comical in areas, was much too sentimental and downright sappy for me to voluntarily accept. |
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In Stage 5, I take this tremendously sentimental display of family history and tart it up with lots of spaceships and cartoon characters. |
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Like both satire and the sentimental, the uncanny as a literary category has been the subject of significant theoretical work. |
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Behind this lies a genuine satiric point about the booming heritage industry's dependence on quaint appellations and sentimental conservation. |
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Replaying breakup or accident scenes heightens their sentimental power, akin to repeatedly ripping the scab off a wound. |
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For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income. |
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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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She tends toward the sentimental, but most of her films at least have some form of character development. |
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As a film, Cinderella Man is terribly weak, thoroughly sentimental and predictable. |
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The moment of her death was the most baldly sentimental moment in the narrative. |
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Despite a hugely prolific career, Cole is now best known for a handful of over-played sentimental ballads. |
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The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin. |
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You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out. |
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He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. |
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It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way. |
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An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response. |
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But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up. |
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It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions. |
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Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental. |
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But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there. |
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Sure, he was fervently patriotic, mawkishly sentimental and often ludicrous. |
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And yet Warm Water meanders aimlessly towards a sentimental conclusion, introducing eccentric characters along the way who are never followed up. |
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About a year later Flagello wrote Sea Cliffs, which is a melodious, sentimental, short work for string orchestra. |
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He has paid his dues to the sentimental and the melodramatic, and is now ready to abandon these narrative modes. |
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In the process they have cut the worst of the sentimental and melodramatic elements to create a much tauter, more compelling plot-line. |
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His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental. |
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In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect? |
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Probably not the best solution if you have a sentimental attachment to the dress. |
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Marlene did have a sentimental attachment the place they were in now, but she was like that. |
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In fact, it's about the only item of clothing that I keep for purely sentimental reasons. |
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He had no sentimental attachment to the planet or the two girls whatsoever. |
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Although her father had passed away a number of years ago she explained that her mother had kept his car for sentimental reasons. |
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Other employers keep poorly performing employees for purely sentimental reasons, like they knew their relatives. |
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I have never entertained a sentimental attachment to the poverty or hardships my ancestors endured. |
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Voters were told to consider among other items melody, lyrics, some historical reason, and even sentimental motives. |
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The only barrier, as they see it, is a vague, sentimental attachment among consumers towards natural cork. |
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I never seriously envisaged going back there, even if it did cross my mind for sentimental reasons. |
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In fact, he bore neither a religious nor a sentimental attachment to Zionism. |
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Her parents, thinking the gloves were for sentimental reasons, hadn't said a word. |
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Some are too sentimental for my taste, and some are descriptions, not stories. |
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Deep down, he is one of the most sentimental people I know, but it is not in his nature to show it externally. |
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I am betraying little if I say that the piece concludes with two happy couples and much sentimental claptrap. |
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Managers often become sentimental about products, hoping that sales will pick up when the market improves. |
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The film isn't sentimental about death, the propagation of species, or other biological occurrences. |
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Or maybe it's just because I'm often at my most sentimental at breakfast time. |
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I'm usually not very sentimental about old things that I don't use anymore. |
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The Waltons and their family-friendly, values-based sentimentalism led the charge for an entire brigade of sentimental sap. |
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Many of these items have sentimental value or are works of art in themselves. |
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Martha said the plantings had more sentimental value than they did intrinsic value. |
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Things that have sentimental value are of far more worth than any art objects. |
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A gold Cameo brooch of great sentimental value was lost in Bunclody last week. |
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Any subjective valuation based on sentimental value does not enhance the true value. |
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Everything we had found that had potential sentimental value or significance had been grouped together in my parents ' bedroom. |
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Items of great sentimental value were removed in this break-in, consequently having a detrimental effect on the owner. |
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For a fairly large variety of reasons, April Gertler's work has some sentimental value for myself. |
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I had only just hidden the letter you sent me in a secret compartment in my dresser, where I hid many things of sentimental value. |
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A woman mugged on her way home from work has appealed to the thieves to return items of sentimental value. |
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The object that the tool produces has at most a quickly passing sentimental value. |
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Many of the victims had lost items of great sentimental value that could never be replaced. |
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Normal service will therefore resume tomorrow morning, probably with a sentimental photograph. |
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I just find that over sentimental tosh in a programme which has managed to deal with such sentiments without having you reach for a sick bag. |
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From the midsection on, the plot is overwhelmed by sentimental subplots, resulting in a dilution of the opening's visceral impact. |
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It is, rather, sentimental, and sentimentality always goes over big in the commercial theater, so long as it's disguised as realism. |
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In such a time, his greatest mistake is not sweetening his logic with sentimental treacle. |
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But, although I jib slightly at the supernatural Skellig's curative powers and the sentimental conclusion, the story has legs as well as wings. |
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Their misery is palpable without ever becoming sentimental, and both boys are astonishingly good. |
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Her decision to leave semi-permanent residence in Japan was an emotional, sentimental time for Joan and her jillions of friends and fans here. |
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We spent months racking up the phone bills, sending each other surprise packages and sentimental handwritten letters. |
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While you have to drag me kicking and screaming into sentimental, weepy Disney flicks, this one really got me. |
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If this sounds like it could lead to sappy and sentimental situations, well, it does. |
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Clijsters has already won two big titles in Indian Wells and Miami and everyone regards her as the sentimental favourite wherever she goes. |
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Ironic postures, become her target every bit as much as sentimental affectations of feeling. |
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So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash. |
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She is a sentimental person who would not dream of parting with diaries, photos, ornaments and keepsakes. |
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Why anyone would willingly subject themselves to three hours of this sentimental rubbish is beyond me. |
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The lawyer explained the fact away with a sentimental appeal to basic recording industry generosity and kindness. |
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Seeing Her Majesty was the one thing the sentimental wrinklies in our family wanted us to do while we're over here. |
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Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however. |
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Occasionally, the tone can be too sentimental and some of the historic background is laid on with a trowel, but these are quibbles. |
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Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying. |
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The sentimental in these poems is continually voiced by others, written through allusion, or deflated by a turn towards light verse. |
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His is a relentlessly energetic, deliciously sentimental, powerfully intelligent art. |
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Soon, when borrowing a book, you'll be able to specify how sexy or sad or silly or sentimental you'd like it to be. |
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The first was sentimental and self-indulgent, the second offered hope amid despair. |
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But he had always been a sentimental kid at heart, and was probably just jealous because I wasn't lavishing him with attention for a change. |
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And on screen, she could play sentimental innocents, as well as jewel thieves, cross-dressing pickpockets, and slippery vamps. |
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Not in a sentimental sense, for a child is anything but that, but in a very factual way. |
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The 1950s recordings have been in limbo until recently, boasting neither modern sound nor superlative sentimental value. |
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So in a city now crammed with a plethora of big name chefs is a sentimental journey enough to entice the movers and shakers? |
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To seize the day could be construed as a stoic, moral or hedonistic call, though not usually a sentimental one. |
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But for sentimental and historical reasons, they are worth a fortune. |
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Without any sentimental treacle, I cried all the way through. |
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When it was released, many people felt it was sappy and sentimental. |
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Accompanied by a series of photographs of Harlem, the piece reads akin to the ramblings of a sentimental expatriate inundating new friends with photographs of a lost home. |
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Sure, this album is miles away from free jazz, and I apologize for it, but I also have my sentimental side which appreciates top level mainstream jazz. |
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We all exchanged awkward hugs and tried not to get too sentimental. |
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It's also for sentimental people who cry when they see something lovely. |
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Tell everyone it's best not to get too sentimental about pets. |
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Or, is it being overly sentimental about a pile of bricks and mortar? |
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The album also features a sentimental speech by Ozzy Osbourne, and a spoken-word by the late Strait, about addiction, backed with very melancholic music. |
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Call me sentimental if you wish, but this was something I had to do. |
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As such, the work alludes to the reciprocal nature of relationship and manages to state its case clearly without being didactic, sentimental or completely unfunny. |
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The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish. |
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Perhaps he was just being overly sentimental, but he felt at peace here. |
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We are outrageously sentimental, giving each other pet names, mash notes and flowers, and doing all sorts of things too silly to tell anyone else. |
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The garments were made from pieces of material donated by each family signifying some sentimental value to a member of the family, living or deceased. |
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She is funny, and regularly deflates Mitchum when he gets on one of his sentimental, drunken storytelling jags. |
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Wanting it back for sentimental reasons we had a trace put on it. |
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I was willing to overlook, mostly, the various implausibilities, the sentimental bleeh involving the volleyball, the character's basic repugnance. |
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The film sets out to be a big weepy, but is saved from being complete sentimental tosh by the conflict between the angry Peter and the consoling Barrie. |
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People are framing personal items that hold great sentimental value. |
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A good commercial Christmas song must avoid being too sentimental or too cutesy. |
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Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels. |
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While Kalman tends to mine the past for material, she is as irreverent as she is sentimental. |
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In another series, drafting a fantasy football team by the side of a fallen comrade could be sentimental, even borderline maudlin. |
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He grabbed the only thing that held any sentimental value for him. |
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And more importantly, he avoids turning all this into sentimental mush. |
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Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental. |
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A handsome nerd, he loves computers and gadgets, but also obsessively fills tattered scrapbooks with sketches, old postcards and sentimental family snaps. |
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He likes France, but he goes too far in getting sentimental about it. |
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Juan is endearingly played by Juan Villegas, a non-professional with the face of a kindly friar, and his story is gently funny and acceptably sentimental. |
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I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental. |
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Not to get overly sentimental, but it's a true hero's journey. |
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There is nothing sentimental about his attachment to the company he helped to found, but there is clear evidence of a huge personal commitment nevertheless. |
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The ring obviously holds great sentimental value for the owner. |
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I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type. |
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Emma Thompson gives Carrington plenty of emotional gravity, carrying off scenes that might otherwise seem weepy and sentimental by giving them a touch of the pathological. |
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But there are also sentimental ballads, music hall numbers and some good old knees-ups. |
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The limit of death that is so fascinatedly and prettily witnessed in the sentimental deathbed scene is here pried open and distended. |
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Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect. |
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Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day. |
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The question as to whether Dickens belongs to the tradition of the sentimental novel is debatable. |
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In September of the same year Gielgud appeared in Dodie Smith's sentimental comedy Dear Octopus. |
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The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century. |
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They're quite sentimental I think and there's nothing cynical about it whatsoever. |
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Themes can be light, but are often sentimental and include love, death and loneliness. |
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Colonists took hedgehogs from England and Scotland to New Zealand on sailing ships from the 1860s to the 1890s mainly for sentimental reasons. |
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Heather stalks are used by a small industry in Scotland as a raw material for sentimental jewelry. |
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Common reasons for valuing material lie in their monetary value, or sentimental value. |
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This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction. |
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I am like a human search engine of sentimental quotes and anecdotes. |
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Pompous sentimental muck well worthy of George Lucas himself. For Warsies only. |
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And, without any dramatic whoop-de-doo at the close of this song, he merely restates his simple, sentimental first phrase. |
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When it comes to her possessions, Spelling doesn't appear to be the sentimental type. |
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Now I would never suggest there is any jiggery-pokery saying that those sentimental lot in racing just let an opponent win on his farewell. |
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I tend to get very sentimental when I think about my childhood. |
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In any case, such an end to the life of such a beautiful creature seemed sadistic or maybe that's just the sentimental towny in me eh? |
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April Fools' Day ought to be perfect for those who want to climb into monkey suits, drink and drive, carouse and sing sentimental old songs. |
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Luckily for him there's no one better at throwing a hissy fit than the stroppy, sentimental songsmith. |
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Carnie teaches Brooke Burke her Matzah ball soup recipe and shares why food has been such an important sentimental part of her life. |
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Although mawkishly sentimental, it has just about enough sugar to make it work as a PG-rated film. |
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All this might sound like sentimental kitsch but, at its best, Bradley's art stays on the right side of the line dividing affecting art from mere affectedness. |
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Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms. |
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Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage. |
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There's a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. |
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As the British viewed American popular culture imagery from a somewhat removed perspective, their views were often instilled with romantic, sentimental and humorous overtones. |
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Burns influenced later Scottish writers, especially Hugh MacDiarmid, who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature. |
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In 1797, a British publisher issued The Young Man's Valentine Writer which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. |
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The veil was of great sentimental value because her matron of honor had worn it in her own wedding ceremony and had brought it all the way from North Dakota to share. |
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Halperin cautioned that Austen often satirised popular sentimental romantic fiction in her letters, and some of the statements about Lefroy may have been ironic. |
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Thornton's reputation was that of a soft-hearted and avuncular veterinarian known for getting teary-eyed while listening to even slightly sentimental stories. |
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It will certainly become a flag under which great victories were won in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but to most minds the sentimental loss will be great. |
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In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists. |
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Sax and Wurlitzers and just the right dash of funky electric guitar funk kick up what are basically sentimental heartland rockers of the Mellencamp variety. |
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