“A little sentimental, maybe. My first idea was to drive up and down in front of you a few times to prove I had a car and you didn’t.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s why he has such handsome black eyes and pretty manners, I suppose. Italians are always nice,” said Meg, who was a little sentimental. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not sentimental nonsense: it’s based on the story of Father’s life. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

James doesn’t allow us to call him “dad” or “father” or any of those other sentimental, lovey-dovey names. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t brawl, he didn’t sing, he didn’t grow sentimental. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born of a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy’s shrine. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t ‘thou’ a little sentimental?” asked Jo, privately thinking it a lovely monosyllable. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beat my family and my brothers and sisters and earned my father’s love. You win by being strong. Not sentimental and weak.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I know. I know. I don’t have a sentimental bone in my body.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Cadence displayed a disquieting desire to rid herself of all unnecessary possessions, even things of sentimental value, almost as if doing penance for past crimes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

This sentimental business about abolishing the death penalty simply encourages crime. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fleshy human handful seems more like a sentimental token. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m being too sentimental, but I like to think that when I’m old, I will be able to look at all these tapes and remember those drives. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had picked her up because of a vague sentimental idea that it would be nice to eat with some one. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No, be yourself with me, Laurie, and part in the good old way. I’d rather have a hearty English handshake than all the sentimental salutations in France.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view over their town, the place they grew up, makes them sentimental, and they grind together over the gearshift. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a saloon partner named Tom Bird, a half-breed who took a sentimental turn when lubricated by whiskey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I caught myself wringing my hands, something I’d only read about in overwrought sentimental stories. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

You're not seriously getting sentimental about inanimate objects now too, are you? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The book was, true enough, what might be described as a 'sentimental romance' - one of a number kept in the library, and also in several of the guest bedrooms, for the entertainment of lady visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

If he had expected to find her languishing, re-proachful, or indulging in sentimental tears, he must have been greatly surprised. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this bunk about little Billy Shakespeare, Dad would say, the great genius despite his grammar-school education, his small Latin and less Greek, was a lot of sentimental mythology. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nice knowing she was being sentimental, not mean. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He smiled, a bit embarrassed, as if he had been thinking about something sentimental, something weak. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I’m despondent and foolish, I’m sentimental, I know that too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At these rare moments when Lana Lee grew sentimental or even religious, she thanked God for His goodness in forming a body that was also a friend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack put it on .a sentimental basis besides. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ovid’s account shows him at his worst, sentimental and exclamatory. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he really that much of a sentimental fool? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I tried imagining him as a teenager, sentimental about a worn book. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sentimental solution would be ideal: to remain a liberal Catholic and to worship at a traditional mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they wanted to survive, they must travel light, harden their hearts against sentimental keepsakes, and trust that they could make do with the bare bones of equipment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One was sentimental: her grandfather had given it to her, and she had used it a lot as a schoolgirl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not that he cries or gets sentimental, not at all, but he does spend a quarter of an hour—an entire fifteen minutes—rocking from his toes to his heels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Your father always enjoyed stories where love comes out of hate. He was so ridiculously sentimental that way,” she said softly. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“A regular daisy. Hold up your dress and put your hat on straight, it looks sentimental tipped that way and will fly off at the first puff. Now then, come on!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I listened to the tapes tonight,” I said, trying not to sound sentimental. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I did do one formal and sentimental thing before I turned my back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sentimental one was: Wild and free, wild and free, Bring back my gander to me, to me. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played the Pavane to a Dead Princess and felt sentimental and a little sad. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call it sentimental, but the twentieth- century Broadway musical was created by Jewish men and women whose families had - almost universally - been offered a lifeline of opportunity via immigration from Europe to the United States. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time—fairly recently, in fact—Molly would’ve gagged over these words, both because they’re blatantly sycophantic and cringingly sentimental. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like her mother, she was afraid of being openly sentimental. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Anyway, these people are out of date, they are sentimental mushballs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No doubt you’ll find this old-fashioned and sentimental, but I want you to have it.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bankers do not like money to be lightly handled even if the handling is sentimental. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sit through an overly sentimental video about "huddled masses" and listen to a bulky soprano belt out the words to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You know he wasn’t sentimental like that. He would want you to eat it now.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I didn't like to think of it, but one couldn't be sentimental. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was comforted by her husband, with whom she recently declared a truce after a week of squabbling; I nearly got sentimental at the sight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I said farewell to all of our new friends, a sentimental moment, as we were leaving them behind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Just a squirrel. Think the old man was feeling sentimental this morning," says Gale. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The people Yossarian wanted to machine-gun were busy at the bar singing sentimental old favorites that nobody else ever tired of. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The tastes of Serena Joy are a strange blend: hard lust for quality, soft sentimental cravings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, the vibe I got from my mom was that she thought I was a dramatic, sentimental sort of teenager whose interests were cute but useless. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bill has been very sentimental lately because he can feel his first year of teaching coming to an end. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even my dad, who is affectionate but not, like, sentimental, randomly, while we were watching The Simpsons, said he missed me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The names we chose were descriptive, not sentimental: Big Red, Black Mare, White Giant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Besides the material on chinchillas, he also brought from the capital the popular wartime booklets that had been created to propagate the image of the heroic soldier, and sentimental novels he had bought for Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last week I sent a tuner over to my parents’ apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns you sentimental; it makes you want to hook up with girls like Mary Hopkin. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a few bars, if you please, professor, of that sentimental little ditty entitled “Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look, I’m as sentimental as the next guy. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Howard had become fiercely sentimental about all sons of Hard Tack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also made what seems to have been a sentimental decision: he spared the life of his lover’s son. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But don’t waste all your time on sentimental mushy stuff. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The cross and signs and streamers in the office reminded the office manager of Christmas decorations and made him feel slightly sentimental. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad is so childishly sentimental,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the stuff of inspirational books and sentimental Hollywood movies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn't like to think of it, but one couldn't be sentimental. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children are often the least sentimental of creatures, especially if they are absorbed in some new pleasure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“For obvious reasons, none of them very sentimental.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sang a foolish sentimental song in a whisper as he washed it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace had wondered if they were stupid, sentimental things to buy, but when she put the necklace around her neck and looked in the mirror, it felt right. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, they were heirlooms and had sentimental value. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Francie suspected that she had a sentimental feeling about the houses and wanted to give them a last good cleaning before she left. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt —o -—47 —* and father were not sentimental people, and the Dumpster pile was always the largest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We talk on the phone at least once a week, and she texts me funny memes from the internet, or sentimental quotes about the importance of family. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Washington dismissed the requests as sentimental, pointing out that if Andre had succeeded in his mission, it might very well have turned the tide of the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Himself not especially susceptible to flattery except in a sentimental way, he soon learned its efficacy when plastered thick on big business men,” Sullivan wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

How excited they all were! — though at the last minute, unexpectedly afraid and sentimental too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then professionals will descend on the house, neatly and efficiently separating the valuable from the sentimental, lingering only over items of indeterminate origin or worth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"And the American people may be sentimental, but their government is not. The US State Department won't trade anything major for one man's life." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of these days”—Uncle wagged a finger at Father—“you will appeal to my better side once too often and my poor, overburdened, sentimental, soft heart will die of the extra load.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Call me sentimental, but it’s what I always wore when Eddie and I were hanging out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In any case, it’s easy to get sentimental about the dead, and to guard against that I want to tell a quick Curt Lemon story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just thank you. The inscription—I never knew you were so sentimental.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

So I packed up my stuff, said good-bye to my mom—neither of us teary or sentimental—and climbed into the car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—enough is certainly as good as a feast—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Dogbreath” Doge, who refused to be interviewed for this book, has given the public his own sentimental version of what happened next. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This doesn’t mean there was anything sneaky about his way of watching, or anything sentimental either. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simply put, Washington had developed a view of both personal and national independence that was completely immune to sentimental attachments or fleeting ideological enthusiasms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The bump from Seabiscuit’s head took care of Howard’s sentimental side. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says this is no time to be sentimental. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, she said, there was no point in calling the police: the missing items were small things, of sentimental value, and of no use to anyone but herself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response which is little more than emotional bosh. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I had to wear them so I could come here. Apparently the school was feeling sentimental enough to let me back, but not sentimental enough to risk a lawsuit.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Honestly,” he would tell them, sour-faced, “it’s not really worth anything at all. I’ll give you what I can, though, as it has sentimental value.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about his eyes and his manners? You never spoke to him, hardly,” cried Jo, who was not sentimental. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York--a denizen of Broadway." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban gave her the fifty pesos because that morning he had sold five bulls and his pockets were full of bills, and also because the exhaustion of pleasure made him rather sentimental. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She added that she found the poem sentimental. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He says they are too romantic, too emotional, too sloppy, too sentimental. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I really don’t want to be a cockblock, but I’m pretty sentimental. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The war is too desperate to allow us to be sentimental for long. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put vigor and spirit into her playing, but not sentimental passion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The only puzzle is what you might have offered for his allegiance. The prince is a sentimental man, and he still mourns his sister Elia and her sweet babe." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But they had kept the Winslow house, its rent paying for their care, and now Mrs. Richardson kept it, too, as a sentimental memory. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the old-timers considered this sentimental and some thought it wasteful and to some it was sacrilegious since there was no provision for it in any sacred volume. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a naive and sentimental time, and men spoke in windy phrases. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeley, the sentimental sap, was listening to the silly, bookish girl and easing up on his grip. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I’m not playing, I never do,” said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ortberg partakes of neither the damaging trope of tragic transness nor the sentimental sanctimony that we are “permitted,” offering instead the comic and the transcendent. The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Claire lobbies for the Garden, despite objections from other jury members that it is “too beautiful,” too sentimental, too obviously a symbol of healing. Books of The Times: The Right Architect With the Wrong Name 2011-08-15T22:30:12Z

It’s certainly not self-indulgent, or even sentimental; it’s just deeply, deeply sad. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

The film is “a stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be, grounded in a frank recognition of the way it is,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October. DVD: New on DVD: ‘Jean Grémillon During the Occupation’ 2012-07-29T03:13:01Z

We may enjoy those sentimental bottles from a European vacation instead of waiting for a special occasion. Uncork a fine bottle of wine. You just might help save a small business. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

You would call it sentimental were it not for Priestley's political prescience: this self-regarding social class deserved everything it was about to get. Time and the Conways – review 2013-03-11T17:48:10Z

I love his voice in this track – nostalgic and regretful without being too sentimental. Readers recommend: songs about rabbits – results 2012-08-23T14:39:00Z

Dolly Parton, meanwhile, issues her second invitation Wednesday night to join her on a sentimental journey back in time — to her 1950s girlhood in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, specifically. A month ago, ‘Incorporated’ would have felt different. Same with Dolly Parton’s Christmas movie. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

This week Google released a sentimental YouTube video looking back on the year through searches. Google searches confirm it: 2014 was a rough year 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

When Clark is reflecting about being the “Optimist,” there’s this aquatic underbelly and sentimental wash that echoes Byrne’s handiwork on 2004′s Grown Backwards. David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z

How refreshing it would be for newborns to hear this mystical piece instead of sentimental lullabies. Music Review: Helmut Lachenmann?s Pursuit of Delicate and Eerie Sounds 2010-04-02T22:16:00Z

There are examples of sentimental propaganda, including posters of Norman Rockwell’s paean to the Four Freedoms, but also of virulent propaganda. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not detail or chronology Gold leaves us longing for; it’s sentimental resonance — and he knows it. A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

This generosity is not at all sentimental, but is alive with sentiment and an appreciation for the mysteries of life. Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z

There are sentimental threads here, including a friend’s pregnancy and a Hallmark-moment family reconciliation. Review: In ‘Dear Zindagi,’ a Conflicted Woman in Search of a Truer Life 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

It must not become sentimental, because I think that devalues it. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

As manipulative, obvious and sentimental as it is, this show is also tough to resist. Theater Review | 'Black Angels Over Tuskegee': An Elite Squadron, Before It Was Airborne 2010-02-17T21:55:00Z

Take the return of Audrey Horne’s dance: it begins sentimental, turns spooky, then ends abruptly, like waking from — or into — a nightmare. We Haven’t Seen That Before: A Critics’ Conversation About ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

She adds, "I used to be more sentimental about `things' but as I've gotten older that matters less." Model Wiedemann opens her 'best-dressed' closet 2012-09-06T16:58:08Z

Then, when it’s finished, it’s finished; it doesn’t end on a sentimental note. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

While the impulse to shed light on the family’s grief and to portray Mr. Davis as more than a headline is understandable, the sentimental reminiscences detract from what at times is a powerfully minimalist presentation. Review: ‘3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets’ Explores a Gas Station Slaying in Florida 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Its situations and feelings seem drawn more from available, sentimental ideas about adolescence than from the perceptions of any particular adolescent. Movie Review: ‘The Way, Way Back,’ From Nat Faxon and Jim Rash 2013-07-04T12:00:44Z

The revived makeover show is an obvious sentimental favorite in the ontologically wonderful category called “Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program.” The 2018 Emmy Nominations: There Is a Lot of Television to Watch 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

It opened my eyes to a way of looking at romance that wasn’t sentimental. Louis Theroux: ‘My greatest achievement ? To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature’ 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

At several moments, you expect a sentimental, uplifting solution, the hug or handshake that assures everyone that bygones will be bygones, that deep down we’re all the same. Review: In ‘The Insult,’ the Dispute Is Personal. And Political. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Many advertisers played it safe by promoting a cause or focusing on sentimental issues. Super Bowl ads: Seinfeld and George, Dylan and Chrysler 2014-02-03T14:07:18Z

No part of their conversation is the least sentimental. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

There is something Victorian, as well as Gothic, about his presence — and his sentimental embrace of darkness. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z

I could slip into a pair of corduroys, kept for sentimental reasons, that I’d last worn at university. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

What the shows have in common is a dogged sentimental spirit that does its best to extract a glimmer of light from an indelibly dark time. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“The vocalization,” she wrote, “is often done by people with horrid voices and sentimental mannerisms.” Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Of course, sentimental value is also part of the equation. How to repair an old basket from Africa 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The bonds these characters forge are organic and heartfelt; even in sentimental moments, Turner wisely declines to tug on any heartstrings. ‘Justine’ Review: A Bittersweet Intersection of Lonely Lives 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The older I get, I find myself really drawn toward that stuff and getting really sentimental about that style of music. Aimee Mann talks about new solo effort “Mental Illness”: “You’re not in a cool rock band — you’re in a cool soft band. Embrace the soft.” 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

“I get that it has a sentimental place,” she said, “but I am so over turkey.” The Rise and Fall of Turkey Brining 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, swathes of the recorded sound score lapse into more generic, cheapening combinations of drum machine and sentimental strings. Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Advertisers went for the "slightly sentimental and sometimes saccharine," Hassler said, perhaps to appeal to women. Sunday's game a ratings winner for NBC 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“It was just too pretty, too sentimental,” Miller told me earlier this month. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Until James Taylor, hat in hand, humbly strolled onto the stage, it hadn’t been an overly sentimental night. Review: Joe Walsh’s VetsAid was a familial star-powered party at Tacoma Dome, raising $1.2 million 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

From a relatively safe historical distance, it’s possible to appreciate him as an almost literary character, a volatile and fascinating mixture of resentment, intelligence, paranoia and guile, with a disarming sentimental streak. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

There is something of a tradition of films set in monasteries and convents or, rather, two traditions: one sentimental and pious; the other bracing and meditative. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

It's too long, and the jokes are better than the play, which turns into a sentimental love letter to theater. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

But radically excerpted and choppily sampled, the content here is largely sentimental pap about our uniqueness as a species, freedom and “the wonderfulness of the planet.” ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

And so it made a certain sense that it was her good goods that fetched the best prices on Saturday, while his brown wood furniture and filched hotel ashtrays sold as so much sentimental dross. The Gimlet Eye: Trading on Sentiment at Dominick Dunne?s Estate Sale 2010-11-25T05:00:00Z

Take This Waltz is so truthful and honest a film that on the rare occasions it hits a false note or becomes over-explicit or sentimental, it really jars. Take This Waltz 2012-08-18T23:07:04Z

“I like to do very romantic, sentimental type of work,” Mr. Marshall told The New York Times as “Pretty Woman” was being released. Garry Marshall, ‘Pretty Woman’ Director and Comedy Mastermind, Dies at 81 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

I was actually quite excited about puberty and its various distractions, and not at all sentimental about my cute-kitten posters or other features of my premenstrual existence. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

She says she lost "lots of sentimental stuff that can't be replaced." Jerry Seinfeld's ex is victim of $1.5 million burglary 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, he is pictured thus: "A sentimental smile sat on his face like a meniscus of untroubled mercury." The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel ? review 2011-03-05T00:07:11Z

On the other: the global entertainer with hits in six decades and a penchant for sentimental pop and discomfiting tunes like “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South.” Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

It didn’t help that Crosby’s personality — “impatient with introspection . . . stoic, manly, rarely nostalgic, never sentimental, and often flippant”— was poorly suited to dealing with a fragile spouse. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Is there something in the sound of guitars that fires up the sentimental and fatalistic wiring of our brains? Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review 2012-08-11T23:05:28Z

And while the final image is a hopeful one, Ms. Ross wisely avoids the kind of pat or sentimental ending that would spoil the play’s mood of ambivalence, not to mention its truthfulness. Review: In ‘Nice Girl,’ a Sudden Ray of Hope in a Dead-End Life 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

An ambitious young composer who holds law and music degrees, he wrote a funny, sentimental rhymed libretto with hundreds of footnotes citing legal and operatic precedents and showed it to Scalia and Ginsburg. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

A less gifted writer might have made this material too whimsical or sentimental. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

"He's certainly not a sentimental man," mused the presenter, reflecting on the then upcoming closure of Jarvis Cocker's toilet paper, the . Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z

With sentimental epics set in troubled times, Allende feminized a Latin American canon that enshrines men. Review | In ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ Isabel Allende delivers another sentimental epic set in troubled times 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

He then toys with the affections of a naive young woman as sentimental and innocent as he once was. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

With the pop of its drums stripped away and the signature church organ enhanced, the song adopted a more sentimental meaning. Meek Mill’s fans happy for late, rather than never, at Echostage 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

So much so that the film’s sentimental closing scene is its one misstep. In ‘Metalhead,’ an Icelandic Girl Drowns Her Sorrows in Music 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

You only see eyes that size in Japanese animation or in the sentimental school of art that used to be found hanging on the railings at Kensington Park Gardens. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

It is a mostly stable image that comprises sepia-toned data points and the sentimental soft colors of Polaroid snapshots of picnics, beaches and candles on the birthday cake. After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Haze steams down from the light grid over the vast Silver Spring Black Box theater — more atmosphere as the sentimental quest treks foggily along. Review | Two dramas on immigration and art emphasize the art 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The ironist knows what other, more naïve, observers do not: that surfaces are deceptive, that the real story is not what presents itself, that conventional pieties are sentimental fictions. The Carpetbagger: A Defender of 'Les Miz' 2013-01-30T15:00:19Z

The current popularity of the white network host-Black bandleader pairing evokes the sentimental racial politics of the buddy cop genre of an earlier era. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

It banks on your cruelty, which might be interesting if the movie acknowledged its meanness and didn’t smother it in the requisite late-act sentimental blather about friendship, family and so on. ‘Good Boys’ Review: The Cruel Comedy of Lost Innocence 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

That irrepressible iconoclast van Hove, it was said, would be taking a grittier, rawer approach to a show that rattled Broadway when it opened in 1957 but has since become a sentimental standard. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There was something incredibly intimate about it—not sentimental but filled with sentiment. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

At 30, Ms. Brown often finds herself waxing sentimental. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z

The characters’ motions and positioning offer sentimental pangs along with wonder. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

For me, there’s always this fear that redemption is going to be sentimental. Jesse Eisenberg on the Surprising Success of ‘The Spoils’ in London 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

“She was just simple, and she was just trying to get by on a daily basis. She’s not sentimental about her pain.” The Carpetbagger: Lupita Nyong’o Is Red-Carpet Savvy and Has Awards to Match 2014-01-22T22:45:51Z

“With this story, it can easily become sentimental, like Puccini,” Mr. van Hove said. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z

The episode ends with a coming-together that will delight the show’s die-hard fans — and help carry the rest of us through the overly sentimental reunions, unlikely outbursts, kidnappings and, yes, sudden deaths. Review: For the Crawleys and ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Beginning of the End 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

From bold psychedelic rockers and cinematic story songs to sentimental country-pop, Kenny Rogers covered considerable musical turf throughout six decades of recording and performing, using his gravel-tinged vocals to dramatic effect. Kenny Rogers, country music's "The Gambler," dead at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

You don't have to be a utilitarian or accept his sentimental "religion of humanity" to see the force of his arguments. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

I don’t recall the exact words, just that I found them a bit sentimental. Two Readings with Robert Stone 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It may be sentimental, overwrought, precious and narcissistic, but for all that, it remains a poignant record of adolescent joy, fear, ambition and angst. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z

“He was getting sentimental talking about fatherhood, and I said, ‘That sounds familiar,’ ” Mr. Busch recalled. Charles Busch’s Hollywood References in ‘The Tribute Artist’ 2014-02-26T22:53:57Z

The self-described “Painter of Light,” who died Friday at age 54, produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes in dewy morning light that were beloved by many but criticized by the art establishment. Thomas Kinkade, Landscape Painter, Dies at 54 2012-04-07T13:35:00Z

Her power and quiet authority diminished some of the solo’s sentimental anguish. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Helium,” by Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson, is a sentimental movie about a hospital custodian who forms an attachment with a dying boy, filling him with fantasies regarding a special place in the sky. ‘Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014’: a showcase of talent 2014-01-30T20:36:07Z

Its cleanliness is faintly amusing – the emphasis here is on the importance of tender words: "It's not just sentimental," Rosing assures us. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-07-21T21:22:01Z

It’s a dense, ever-shifting collage, variously hinting at ska-punk, Britpop, fiddle tunes and “Sympathy for the Devil,” with barbed bits of lyrics like “sordid, sentimental, sick souvenirs” and “Even the devil sold his soul.” Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Delightfully free of academic conventions and sentimental piety, its aesthetic freshness matches its vitality of soul. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

There are more shorts and rarities in store on July 6, including the 1932 short "County Hospital" and the sentimental 1954 episode of "This Is Your Life" with the duo. The comedic genius of Laurel and Hardy 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Then again, some images are so nauseously sentimental they are surreal. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z

Ferrante’s view of family life is anything but sentimental, anything but comforting. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It anticipates, and sidesteps, lazy reading and sentimental expectations. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Is it the saccharine, sentimental approach of a film like Cocoon? Readers' panel: What films best portray old age? 2012-07-02T15:49:29Z

Unlike George W. Bush, whose turn in 2008 was largely sentimental and retrospective—videos of past appearances, an arrhythmic attempt to conduct the Marine band—Obama used the opportunity to look warily forward. The Sweet Solidarity of Barack Obama and Larry Wilmore 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t trying to be sentimental about the season,” Kahn says. Kahn’s final season to include a rare staging of ‘The Oresteia’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

His view of human behavior is at once harsh and sentimental, and his grasp of the psychology of his characters — Lily in particular — does not always seem solid or consistent. Movie Review: ‘Little Birds,’ First Film by Elgin James 2012-08-29T01:16:25Z

“Bears in Space” is indeed a bit sentimental. King Joffrey Is Coming. But Only to Act in a Play. 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, a sentimental score distracts from the careful images. ‘Petite Solange’ Review: Coming of Age as Your Parents Divorce 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The difference is that “Hubie” leans into Sandler’s latent sweetness, counterbalancing the raunchy lowbrow humor with a heartfelt — perhaps even sentimental — touch. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

This new seriousness of purpose was supported by the sentimental orchestral music of Murray Gold. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

“That sentimental stuff is the most difficult for me to play, especially because I’m trained vocally and physically for Shakespeare,” Mr. Plummer said in a People magazine interview in 1982. Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

That sorrowful surprise lends it an affectionate shine some might interpret as overly sentimental. Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Marvel performance packs an emotional wallop befitting his legacy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Shows for Days” wants to be both harshly realistic and charmingly sentimental. Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

As a monument to girl power, Whip It struck me as infinitely less po-faced and sentimental than Page's earlier film, Juno. You review: Whip It 2010-04-12T14:03:00Z

The other lowlifes reveal their softer sides in their sentimental attachments to mothers, sisters and children. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z

Toward the end of the album there’s a bizarro sentimental number, “I’m Not the One,” followed by the perplexing, aimless title track, both of which threaten to harsh the group’s aggro. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z

And a sentimental vote could bring Michael Douglas, recently recovered from cancer treatment, back into the Oscar fold for "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps." Wake up, movie fans: It's time for this year's Oscar nominations 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z

In this age of instant messaging, Steinbrecker said, “we wanted something really meaningful and sentimental, an experience, not a tweet.” ‘Utopia: Revisiting a German State in America’ on exhibit in Washington

For instance, “Mr. Huffam, A Christmas Story” — found in the Tartarus collection — offers a sentimental variation on “The Silver Mask.” He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

If the writing is sometimes sentimental, the simple familiarity of the visuals strikes an honest note. ‘Working Man’ Review: Evolving on the Assembly Line 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The counterpoint between the animal and human worlds, so brilliantly caught in the famous David Pountney production at ENO in the 1980s, is regularly undermined here, replaced by something far too twee and sentimental. The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera review 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z

I used to think that the imbalance reflected a conventionally sentimental view of courtship, and that Rita, for all her loveliness, was a bit of a cipher, an idealized foil for the more complicated Phil. How Many More Weeks (Years)? Watching ‘Groundhog Day’ Together 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

That “evil banana” joke is surely the work of Ms. Shear, who manages to wedge some audience-friendly contemporary humor into the sentimental grooves of the story. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's a dishonest picture about people agreeing to tell lies in the cause of peace but eventually coming out with uncomfortable truths that somehow lead to a happy, sentimental ending. The Big Wedding – review 2013-05-25T23:04:00Z

His performance is an increasingly tiresome display of sentimental slapstick and attempted scene stealing in which he evokes uncomfortable memories of Roberto Benigni running wild in “Life Is Beautiful.” Review: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Ups the Ante 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It's a very Victorian tale, both uplifting and sentimental, of deep-dyed villainy, fallen women, mistreated orphans, hidden benefactors and social injustice. Les Misérables – review 2013-01-13T00:07:04Z

I was prepared to be gently clasped in the familiar, sentimental "The Baby-Sitters Club" world. We are far from Stoneybrook now: On the quiet revolution of "The Baby-Sitters Club" 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Though unashamedly old-fashioned and sometimes sentimental, the play is emotionally delicate, too, and often astute about dependency, the way our parents shape us and how hard it is to say "I love you". A Voyage Round My Father 2010-09-07T21:30:00Z

The cabinet is oak and from an estate sale 35-plus years ago, so it doesn’t have any sentimental value, but it’s pretty. How to replace curved glass on an old china cabinet

But how much of this alleged contentment is sentimental projection? Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Harry Reid may be feeling pretty sentimental these days. ‘I hate palm trees’: The sentimental journey of Harry Reid 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

At first glance, the poem might seem sentimental, its moral too sweet an image of self-effacing Victorian motherhood for modern taste. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

Along with these gifts, Laplante possessed a superb baritone voice and frequently performed sentimental songs on the vaudeville circuit. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Others, however, see the films as accurately reflecting a less sentimental attitude to courtship that does indeed lie at the heart of the contemporary black experience. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

In clear prose that is never sentimental or overwritten, Mr Flanagan explores human reactions, large and small. Remembrance 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

"These items hold enormous sentimental and professional value," her insurer said, making no comment on the quality of the sandwich. Stradivarius violin worth ?1.2m stolen in London 2010-12-07T10:20:00Z

While Wonder Woman has lately been commanding media attention with her gaudy, sentimental take on the power of positive thinking, Zorro commits to social action without losing his nimble sense of humor. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

It is also sillier and more sentimental, as the demands of showbiz warrant. | 'Peter and the Starcatcher': Peter Pan (the Early Years), With Bounding Main and All 2011-03-10T03:30:25Z

But for Gurung the strappy looks held a more sentimental attachment, the cutouts a play on the traditional blouses worn by Nepali women. Prabal Gurung sends a ‘NY love song’ to homeland of Nepal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

He mellowed considerably, and with his grandchildren was much softer and more sentimental than he had ever been as a parent.  Q+A: Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, Co-Authors of Strings Attached 2013-10-01T16:51:02Z

He says the oak is a sentimental stop for "Shawshank" fans drawn to the film's locations. Storms damages Ohio tree seen in 'Shawshank' 2011-08-02T16:46:03Z

If you take my playlist as the starting point, you will wrest some small vestige of emotional truth in a day of cheapened sentimental trinketry and secondhand musical cliches of lurved-up hormones. Heart strings 2013-02-14T15:21:00Z

He does drugs and keeps his brain pickled in alcohol, all while remaining aggressively sentimental. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

A sentimental ballad, backed by Buddy Bregman’s orchestra, it was recorded for the small Era label and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard chart. Gogi Grant, Who Knocked Elvis Off Top of Chart, Dies at 91 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

As "The Mother" whipsaws the characters from Alaska to Cuba and back, the story struggles to find its groove because the propulsive action is at odds with the more sentimental moments. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Newspapers that had previously warned how IVF threatened human welfare and dignity suddenly became sentimental baby-worshippers, announcing the “baby of the century”. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Back in the 1970s, economic adversity and shared hardship tightened bonds on sentimental series like “Little House on the Prairie” or “The Waltons.” Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z

He offers a personal vision, but it's one that has been judged suspect, offering up a sentimental and duplicitous Americanism. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

Rather, they hint at a capacity for irrational and anarchic invention in children that the adult world tends to ignore, preferring to tell itself more sentimental stories about childhood. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Overly sentimental traps line the plot of the film, streaming on Disney+. ‘Safety’ Review: It Takes a University to Raise a Child 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

For 10 years, he struggled to write a book that wasn't "sentimental and self-indulgent," Green said, laughingly adding that his early efforts featured a "22-year-old dashingly handsome chaplain who was also a drunkard." 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a tour de force about teenage cancer 2012-01-14T07:25:43Z

Dury’s childhood polio and subsequent disability form the dramatic core of the film, but his struggle with the disease and its aftereffects also gives the movie an element of sentimental predictability. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z

Baldwin, at least in his nonfiction, was anything but sentimental. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

That may sound suspiciously sentimental, but the joys of “Still Life” are cured in a furnace of tragedy. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

His stand-up act possesses little of the sentimental heart of “The Office” or even of “Extras”; it can be ruthlessly funny, but also belligerent and a little bit paranoid. Ricky Gervais Would Like to Non-Apologize 2012-01-11T15:17:22Z

Mr. Murdoch is sentimental about print newspapers, which can be pesky to manage and difficult to draw a profit from. Ta-Ta to ‘Teetering Tabloids’: Keith Kelly Signs Off 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

In this sentimental work the dry but technically astute dancers performed a duet with a piece of fabric, which both separated them and drew them closer. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-31T22:38:56Z

Getting a Muppet film right takes enormous precision of tone: it needs to be sentimental without being cloying, irreverent without being mean-spirited, aware of pop culture without relying on it as a crutch. Will Muppets 2 leave us feeling green? 2013-01-24T17:08:30Z

“Cannot believe it’s real. Smiling scenery so appealing,” are the Khmer lyrics of “Florida, Florida”, sung in a slow and sentimental style. U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The play starts to feel like a stoned brainstorming session in a college dorm room, whose participants segue from delighted goofiness into sloppy, sentimental sincerity. Review: In ‘Wives,’ the Other Halves Have Their Say 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

That Ms. Schine wraps up her novel in a courtroom, with Joy defending her grandson’s ticket for public urination, shows how pleasingly resistant the author is to a predictable or sentimental ending. Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

This gives his paintings a reportorial edge, quashing any inclination to see them as sentimental or nostalgic. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“Cannot believe it’s real. Smiling scenery so appealing,” are the Khmer lyrics of “Florida, Florida”, sung in a slow and sentimental style. U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

But there is, in the eighteenth-century sense, a “sentimental” reading of the book that recommends itself as well, and somewhat escaped Gardner’s mathematical-modelling mind. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

But this movie’s ache to believe in something, indeed in almost anything — in a highly sentimental and miraculous storybook teleology unhitched to any recognizable religious tradition — is so naked as to be embarrassing. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z

“Those artists open doors, and are realists. They are not sentimental about the world that they live in.” The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Notes on Blindness” avoids the sentimental pitfalls of a documentary this personal. Review: ‘Notes on Blindness’ Is John Hull’s Trip From Darkness to Light 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

In South Africa, where the phrase is often used by white people in reference to the black women who cared for them as children, it can take on a grasping, almost desperately sentimental quality. In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Elena Seymenliyska gave the book four out of five stars in the Telegraph, arguing: "Joyce has been criticised for being sentimental; if only more novels were bad enough to move us like this one." Book review roundup: The Outsider, Perfect and Bitter Experience Has Taught Me 2013-06-28T17:00:01Z

Yet there's nothing nostalgic or sentimental about Goines' clarinet playing, as he demonstrated on Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You," leading a quartet. Victor Goines gets a spotlight of his own 2011-03-12T15:49:00Z

These warming, even sentimental additions do not detract from the intellectual integrity of Kennedy’s conception any more than McDonald’s astonishing access to tragic feeling diminishes the prickly oddness of the characters. Review: Who Committed the ‘Ohio State Murders’? Who Didn’t? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Are you guys feeling frisky or sentimental?” she asked. Music Review: Nnenna Freelon: Vocalist Who Bends Melodies 2010-05-12T20:28:00Z

Throughout the book an apparition of the author’s unborn child pops into the prose like Ally McBeal’s Baby Cha-Cha, inducing the otherwise sage Smarsh to write in the inexorably sentimental second person. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jack Cummings III, the artistic director of the Transport Group, has come up with an inspired gimmick for resurrecting a work that might seem too brazenly sentimental for present-day tastes. Theater Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ Reminisces at the Gym at Judson 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z

It’s true that some attempts have been sentimental and aimless, but much good has emerged from it, too. The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Other channels follow a similar formula: artfully composed scenes with calming background music, soft-focus filters and sentimental captions set to images of plants being watered, vegetables being chopped and clean pajamas being folded. Lessons From a Homebody 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

This panoramic approach dovetails nicely with the sentimental core of the musical, which is to say, it’s okay to be human, with ordinary feelings and problems and stuff. Review | ‘Hercules’ proves strong enough to lift all of Central Park, but only for a few days 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Wood admits that she values her father's title for its "sentimental value more than anything else." In UK, aristocrats still face 'Downton' dilemma 2013-04-12T14:27:08Z

The fictionalized biopic “Desert Dancer” explores fascinating aspects of present-day Iran but suffers mightily from simplistic and sentimental tendencies. Review: ‘Desert Dancer’ Tells the Story of the Afshin Ghaffarian 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

His sentimental send-off last spring reminded us of how much we loved delightfully clueless Michael Scott. Emmy predictions: Who will reign supreme? 2011-09-15T20:33:04Z

Life for many in Wick World is, to borrow Hobbes’s formulation, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” but it’s also sentimental and filled with friendships or at least alliances. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Something in Mr. Tracy had shifted since his 2015 divorce “He started talking about Linda,” she said, “telling me how much he appreciated my support of her. He was really sentimental.” I Do. Take 2. 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

“It is sentimental hogwash, but the freshmen are, I think, secretly proud to see their university on the screen.” Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z

Starr's sentimental streak also crops up on his birthday, which he traditionally celebrates by visiting the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles and having a celebratory "Peace & Love" event. An appreciation of Ringo Starr's dynamic and joyful musical gifts – despite the naysayers 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

She is sentimental about them when “My Life in Sales” is over. Books of The Times: ‘This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage,’ by Ann Patchett 2013-12-22T22:09:28Z

There are glimpses of it in The Village, a poem written at the time of his curacy, which sets out to deflate sentimental ideas about rural life. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z

Yet this version somehow plays like a sentimental sitcom, perhaps a low-rent “Modern Family.” Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z

Of course, no wicked stepmother worth her salt is all sentimental mush. Review: ‘Ever After,’ a Slipperless Cinderella Tale, at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Is this a sincere story of a young woman’s education — sentimental, professional, sartorial — or a Fashion Week party? ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

It is long and ambitious and detailed and screamy and sentimental, and its story line is an extended metaphor for living with manic depression: highs, lows, dissociative states. Popcast: Titus Andronicus’s Rock Opera 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The am-dram poseur is an archetype dear to the hearts of sardonically sentimental playwrights. Review: In ‘Happy Talk,’ Susan Sarandon Escapes Into Amateur Acting 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

That scene possesses some of the quirky sentimental appeal that has helped make the musical “Once” an unexpected, Tony-winning success on Broadway. Theater Review: ‘Dogfight’ at Second Stage Theater 2012-07-17T02:00:00Z

“So much of it was completely off the top of his head. He made it all up,” Brennan said in a segment that was funny and sentimental. Dave Chappelle accepts the Twain Prize: ‘I love my art form. It saved my life.’ 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Drawing from his own experiences, Branagh crafts nostalgic, sentimental scenes suffused with some of Van Morrison’s warmest songs. ‘Belfast’ Review: A Boy’s Life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Superficially, such movies seem to be in a state of sentimental mourning for the closing of the frontier and the end of a mythical white frontier life. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Call the Midwife,” which accentuates the ties between these young women and their underprivileged patients, is overtly sentimental. Television Review: ‘The Bletchley Circle’ on PBS 2013-04-19T22:48:51Z

Paisley doesn't flinch from the sentimental in life or in song. Brad Paisley prepares for ninth album release 2011-05-13T21:17:40Z

Last year’s films made things easy on me, and provided a helpful sentimental streak due to the convenience of a musical film like Inside Llewyn Davis also being among the year’s best. A Video Countdown of the Year's 25 Best Movies 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

By turns melodramatic, slapstick, sentimental, racist, misogynist, embarrassing and horrific, “The Sorcery Club” is hardly a great novel of the supernatural. Book World: ‘The Sorcery Club,’ by Elliott O’Donnell

They got very sentimental about each other and what they did. "Carter was so humane": "Desert One" filmmaker on examining the Iran hostage crisis 40 years later 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

The transformation, conceived by the playwright’s daughter, Hallie Foote, not only tempted Tyson back to the stage after a 30-year hiatus but also imparts new resonance to the deceptively sentimental story. Tyson's inviting 'Trip to Bountiful' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

But the show's deficiencies — a seriousness unleavened with sufficient humor, Hammerstein's sentimental lyrics — have more or less benched the musical. Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Call it sentimental if you like, but it's also sweet and genuine and universally true. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z

The ensemble’s string sound is sweetly polished, with occasional strands of earthiness that prevent the performance from becoming overly sentimental. CD Review: Faur? Quartets by Trio Wanderer 2010-07-04T05:18:00Z

Its soul is sentimental, conventional and timid in spite of its hero’s bravado. Review: Matthew McConaughey Waxes Poetic in ‘The Beach Bum’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Crosby says playing pinball there is part of his “sentimental routine” when he returns to Las Vegas, which is about every three years. Could GoFundMe campaigns save our cultural collections? Las Vegas’s Pinball Hall of Fame is banking on it. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Andrew Porter, whose In Between Days is 'eminently moving but never sentimental'. In Between Days by Andrew Porter – review 2013-07-14T09:00:00Z

After that the best he can do is combine some of the sentimental moral clichés of the big-budget prison picture with the feel-bad lassitude common to low-budget depictions of the American South. Television Review: ‘Rectify’ on the Sundance Channel 2013-04-21T21:11:25Z

Such works served useful purposes — cathartic commemoration, therapeutic expression, public rallying — but in retrospect, many of them now feel sentimental or heavy-handed. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z

There's a lot of guitar-centric roots-ish music going around lately, and for whatever reason I prefer bands who are more ghostly and aloof with it, rather than wide-eyed and overtly sentimental. Widowspeak covers Chris Isaak, talks Tacoma wave in Brooklyn 2011-06-07T16:50:07Z

Bocelli can be sentimental when he talks about his foundation and trying to leave the world a better place, but his sentiments are genuine. Tenor Andrea Bocelli shares his hope, joy and generosity 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

My husband is more sentimental, so it will be a struggle to get him on board. Did Marie Kondo fans keep their houses tidy all year? ‘We’ve got rid of 20% of our stuff’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Limiting herself to a patch of stage inside the piano’s curve, she projected intense focus and concentration even when her material grew sentimental or impassioned. Music Review: Singing the Romance in the Russian Soul 2010-03-02T22:22:00Z

This is a warmly, in fact outrageously sentimental and self-congratulatory film from Disney about the master himself. Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z

And they were drenched in the sort of sentimental idealism that people of the Victorian age evidently found irresistible. Art Review: ‘John Rogers: American Stories’ at New-York Historical Society 2012-11-08T22:14:24Z

I am a sentimental, rather than angry, drunk. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z

Veronika Part’s Odette, by contrast, is powerfully sentimental, with searching gazes into her prince’s eyes and a fond clutch of his hand to her cheek. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

Next time, save the sentimental bottle for a hoedown at your place. Social Q’s: Social Q’s - Don’t Ask for a Gift Back 2012-09-21T01:22:37Z

His music for the opening credits initially seems saccharine and sentimental, but is actually fitting for the mood of the show. Twin Peaks still marks the summit of TV soundtracks 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z

Conceptually, Gears of War is uncomplicated: sentimental muscle-men machine gun waves of aliens. The biggest gaming releases of 2013 2013-01-05T00:06:07Z

My reasons for visiting Winterset, however, were more political than sentimental. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The best numbers, curiously, aren’t the perky, twinkly ones, which bring to mind background music for sentimental ad campaigns, but the more somber solos. | 'I'll Be Damned': At the Vineyard, a Musical With a Devil?s Bargain 2010-07-12T21:42:00Z

The song in which she makes this declaration is called “The Rose of Tacloban,” and along with the title number, it perfectly captures Mr. Byrne’s gift for setting Mrs. Marcos’s surreally sentimental words to music. Theater Review: David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love,’ at the Public Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:05Z

In those victories, it becomes clear that Spielberg's alignment with the mainstream has fueled perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions about his career: call his movies popular, call them sentimental — just don't call them safe. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Although Mr. Applegate plays the role with a nicely studied restraint, the character skirts stock stereotype, and his cancer diagnosis strikes a sentimental note that only adds to the busy traffic of the plot. ‘The Last Ship,’ With Songs by Sting, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

In those moments especially, the show slips out of its Fremdschämen comedy to indulge in the pure sentimental pleasures of its puffy-painted unicorn soul. Middle school was hell. "PEN15" makes me (almost) want to go back 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

But "The Identical" is ultimately too schematically sentimental, even with Liotta playing against type, to have much of an impact. 'The Identical' channels Elvis Presley in separated-twins tale 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Her son initially worried that it would appear overly personal — for Mmuseumm, quirky is O.K.; sentimental is not. Mmuseumm 2 to Open in TriBeCa, All 20 Square Feet of It 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The book might have fallen unremarked into the great vat of sentimental suspense fiction that New York pumps out every year, except for an unprecedented collision of promotion and denunciation. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Duke of Ephesus is played as a inarticulate and overly sentimental Crime Boss. On the Scene: Shakespeare in the Park’s The Comedy of Errors 2013-06-21T20:28:33Z

Mr. Bock does not entirely avoid the schematic or the sentimental in depicting the temperamental changes that take place as Emily reckons with her calamity. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z

As I acclimated to New York life, I became less and less sentimental. Letters: Letters 2010-03-18T02:12:00Z

Though the items in the sale carry great sentimental value, Mr. Hamilton said that after he married in July, “It was time to clean out and reorganize and simplify life.” Studio 54 Memorabilia to be Sold at Auction 2013-01-16T13:00:00Z

But overall this is a confident show that knows its power without landing on the sappy side of sentimental. Review: ‘As We See It,’ Where the Quest for ‘Normal’ Is Extraordinary 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Though its tone wavers, telenovela-style, between farcical and sentimental, and it’s at least 15 minutes too long, the film is easy enough to sit through. Movie Review | 'Manuela and Manuel': Puerto Rican Comedy With Humberto Busto 2010-03-26T01:12:00Z

Wilson has a sentimental streak when it comes to his formative influences, and the origin story behind his rejuvenation of the Sinfonia, which disbanded in 2002, is romantic. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Impeccably crafted but sentimental and conventional, the large picture was fully signed by the painter in 1774. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z

Though the animation can veer into the sentimental, it’s more often skillfully done and absorbing. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z

Whether dramatically raising one arm to the sky or getting down on bended knee, the crooner conveyed impossible promises, sincere apologies and us-against-the-world declarations with sentimental innocence. Review: A puzzling, frustrating Chris Brown 2011-09-24T13:48:00Z

But, against all odds, Big Country and Thin Lizzy offer proof that it can be a life-affirming affair that paying tribute to the departed hero without becoming sentimental. The show must go on: when bands replace their dead stars 2011-01-27T22:59:01Z

Simple, tender observations and soulful but without sentimental schmaltz. Open thread: Who are the best on-screen couples? 2012-08-10T13:14:33Z

Gandolfini's character is the only one who feels like a complete and complicated person: brazen and abusive but also sentimental and deeply insecure. Review: `Softly' hammers its message hard 2012-11-28T17:25:16Z

But it is, despite the glamour, sentimental in a way that Pacino isn’t. Al Pacino: ‘What’s the point of quitting?’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

I am very sentimental, and this hurts me deeply. Carolyn Hax: A name game a grandmother must avoid for the sake of family bonds

“Yes, he has this hyper-realist degree of detail, but there’s nothing sentimental. These are tough works — the bleak winter landscapes, old age, death. There’s just this aching loneliness.” All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

With her ability to mix colors and attitudes, from sentimental French to exotic North African, Ms. de la Falaise seemed the Saint Laurent ideal. On the Runway Blog: Loulou de la Falaise, a Muse to Yves Saint Laurent, Dies at 64 2011-11-09T16:41:12Z

They were unabashed in their affection for each other, a rare and sentimental display. Perspective | An unlikely Washington love story: Debbie Dingell on her 38-year marriage to John Dingell 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

It was moving and poignant but never sentimental. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z

As the pace picks up, whatever spell the movie cast is shattered, and “Still Life” melts into a heap of sentimental slush. Uberto Pasolini’s ‘Still Life,’ Starring Eddie Marsan 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

I’m not sentimental about this kind of stuff and yet I could not stop crying onstage. Is Stephanie Hsu the ‘Dark Horse’ of Award Season? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The film is sentimental at times, but that in no way diminishes its power. Prefer to watch movies about football rather than football this Thanksgiving? These are 10 of the best 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

An early review was for "Spencer's Mountain," a sentimental family melodrama starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. Film critic Judith Crist dies at 90 2012-08-07T20:48:08Z

What made the episode especially surprising was that Koolhaas, hardly known for a sentimental or softhearted streak, agreed to speak to The New York Times for an article announcing the split. Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z

Brazenly sentimental and shamelessly self-dramatizing, with a complementary gift for taking his audience into his confidence with seemingly spontaneous comic asides, Jolson helped to invent pop stardom as we know it today. DVDs: Al Jolson?s ?Mammy,? in New DVD Edition 2010-04-16T23:18:00Z

The film was based on a novel by an old acquaintance of Wilson’s, and incorporated title cards that loosely quoted Wilson’s own work — including some strikingly sentimental descriptions of the Ku Klux Klan. In ‘The Moralist,’ Woodrow Wilson and the Hazards of Idealism 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

According to many published accounts, his screenplay was rejected by several studios as too sentimental for the time. 2010-01-20T06:41:00Z

“I had taken pride in being absolutely unsentimental with ‘My Life as a Dog,’ and this was a very sentimental story,” Mr. Hallstrom said in a telephone interview. Film Has a Dog and Two Big Names, but No Big Screens 2010-09-24T15:12:00Z

This surge of interest ends decades in which the decorative arts and crafts tended to be dismissed as sentimental and old-fashioned compared with the dynamism of industry. Special Report: Decorative Arts: The Revival of the Artisan 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z

The style of his music, performed by a wonderful onstage band, might be described as sentimental modernism, both lyrical and tense, delicate and harsh. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z

While it’s easy to become sentimental in the middle of a crisis, this is neither the time nor the place. Don’t text your ex: why self-isolation isn't the time to try to get your past love back 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

At once solemn and preposterous, sinister and sentimental, efficient and overwrought, “Split” represents something of a return to form for its writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

About the harshness we are blasé or even sentimental. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

In this case, the very worst brings out the very best, but not in a cloying or sentimental way. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Dear Amy: Responding to "Overwhelmed," who was struggling with cleaning out their mother's apartment, when my father died, my sister and I took the things that were sentimental and/or useful. Perspective | Ask Amy: Daughters say their childhood was traumatic. Their mother is devastated. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

But it’s a sentimental notion that sets the novel’s well-oiled narrative in motion. In Lee Child’s ‘The Midnight Line,’ hero Jack Reacher seeks justice amid the opioid crisis 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

If only for sentimental reasons, I tell Priest that I wish he'd pick up the phone and send Scott his regards. Glam rock bottom: why did it go so sour for Sweet? 2010-09-23T21:56:00Z

She stacks books, leans artwork, and displays sentimental objects, like a collection of seashells in a pretty yellow bowl, atop the tables to add visual interest. 2010-02-08T16:41:00Z

Owens does so effortlessly and assuredly, and the result is singular: It’s analog and futuristic, creepy and sentimental, heart racing and utterly heartbreaking. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Tactically, he feels that evasion is better than any kind of heartfelt vow or undertaking any kind of serious sentimental responsibility. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z

It is, she added, “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.” What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

That enchanted three-night performance seemed destined to disappear into the sentimental mists of theater memory. 5 Must-See Shows in New York This Month 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

I really have a sentimental attachment to kohl eyeliner. Amal Awad: 'Arab women have traditionally been written about in a very patronising way' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

There are sentimental and reassuring movies about vengeance, and comforting stories about the resistance to historical oppression. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But I think that is ever so slightly sentimental. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

I suggest "to get yourself Franzened" as a useful new way to describe the sinking feeling attendant on receiving a fat American novel of sentimental neo-realism on Christmas day. Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z

Okay, so “A Retrieved Reformation” is sentimental and improbable, but you’ll never forget it. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

The tears he sheds at the end of the production are not only unearned but also contrary to Shaw's intentions, which to his everlasting credit were neither sentimental nor devoid of feeling. 'Pygmalion' falls short in uneven Pasadena Playhouse revival

The coldhearted character warmed by the discovery of love is a trope that dates back to Victorian literature and beyond, and to her credit Ms. Cho does not allow George’s education to grow particularly sentimental. | 'The Language Archive': A Linguist at a Loss for Words Regarding Love 2010-10-17T22:14:00Z

They love their animals with a clear-eyed devotion that our sentimental regard for pets only thinly resembles. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

A sentimental meeting, or the offering of a sacrifice? ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 6 Recap: ‘I’m Going Home’ 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

I didn’t even want to put it on the record, because I thought it was a little bit too sentimental. Chrissie Hynde, holding out for the independents 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

And while the film’s feminist thrust is admirable, Winocour’s decision to sacrifice this for a cheap, sentimental finale is infuriating. ‘Proxima’ Review: Separation Anxiety 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

But it’s also one of his sliest and most movingly sentimental. Theater Review: Daniel Kitson’s ‘Analog.Ue,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2013-12-05T03:00:01Z

As he battles an evil ancestor and tries to save his mother’s life, the story combines rollicking, sentimental action with incessant references to Western pop music and other cultural streams. Offerings From Boutique Streaming Services 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

She berates him: Where, she demands, is all the sentimental stuff that a normal person accrues over a lifetime? | 'Love Song': Not Much to Steal but a Heart 2011-04-17T22:22:46Z

It's sentimental without being mawkish, and not afraid to get a little weird, on the one hand, or a little serious, on the other. TV Picks: 'Enlisted,' 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,' 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

A non sentimental take on a true immigrant story. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

My own first sign of the season, perhaps like yours, is nostalgic and rather sentimental and ever so slightly silly – the Christmas carol. Faithful or not, all can rejoice in carols ? hymns drenched in our folk memory 2010-12-07T19:59:00Z

Given the potential rewards of emotional risk, Hull’s savvy acknowledgment of the penalty part keeps the work from indulging in sentimental, greeting card banalities. Artist Steven Hull takes a seat at the dark carnival of life 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The 50s-set comedy, with 20 nominations, has broad support among Emmy voters, but as in outstanding drama, the sentimental favorite here is a beloved HBO series in its final season: Veep. Emmys 2019 predictions: who will win, and who should win? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The students erupted into choruses of “ewws” whenever the older actors got physical with each other, but they also said “aww” a lot at less touchy-feely sentimental moments. Critic?s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn?t Dead, It?s Onstage 2012-02-03T23:49:33Z

“It would be too sentimental or too violent, and it had to be both together.” In Praise of “Chef’s Table” ’s Wild Overuse of Slow Motion 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

After working with the actors on "Transit" for 30 days, it was sentimental, because we know we have to finish our work and "divorce." "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

It was a significant loss, for reasons ecological, aesthetic and sentimental. A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the overly literal and soggily sentimental “One Small Step” — one of three here on the Oscar shortlist — a Chinese-American shoemaker selflessly supports his daughter’s dream of becoming an astronaut. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He finds Gay’s book “exhaustingly unpleasant” while Doerr’s is merely “sentimental.” Stephin Merritt, “mean” book judge: Why his merciless reviews ruffled so many literary feathers 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

A middle-aged man, Wiktor, suffering what could be a personal or menopausal crisis, takes a sentimental journey to a family property called Wilko where he had once been tutor to some young sisters. Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart | Peter Bradshaw 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The portrayal of existential teenage angst has also become laughably sentimental. TV Hall of Shame #4: Skins 2011-03-09T14:37:19Z

A breezy, somberly sentimental series of blackout sketches, the play is just asking to be retitled “Same Time, Next Scar.” | 'Gruesome Playground Injuries': Love Hurts, and for Some Couples, That?s the Point 2011-02-01T03:01:01Z

The point of family heirlooms is the sentimental sweep of history, not technical accuracy. Social Q?s: Handling a Significant Other?s Fashion Sense 2012-02-16T22:00:24Z

He still has an arsenal of weapons, but its walls are lined with photos and sentimental mementos from Sarah's early days. Arnold Schwarzenegger embraces his aging Terminator as 'Genisys' is set for action 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

These are sentimental episodes, but they are laudable as a teaching tool. HBO's Adrienne Shelly doc is a loving, wistful tribute to the filmmaker whose life was cut short 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Like many sappy Asian rom-dramas, "A Beautiful Life" relies heavily on sentimental soundtrack ballads and enough melodramatic twists to cause a serious case of whiplash. 'A Beautiful Life': Romantic tale brings twists, turmoil and tears 2011-05-19T19:58:04Z

It’s fatally sentimental and, at times, improbable, even as it labors for realism. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Tolerance, World War II history and faith are served up with a sticky sentimental gloss in the family film "Little Boy." 'Little Boy' a shiny, sentimental lesson in faith, tolerance 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

It is widely thought to represent “all that is tacky, tasteless, earnest, sentimental, worthless, simplistic, poorly crafted, unoriginal, frivolous, redundant and common,” Mr. Eliason writes. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z

If there’s one thing the documentary’s talking heads agree on, it’s that Spielberg is unapologetically sentimental. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The portrait of the mother is a sentimental hagiography. The Truth About Leo by David Yelland 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

For all the detail of prisons and hostels, there is a sentimental streak running through the book. Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs – review 2013-04-15T10:55:08Z

But that may simply be a sentimental view, judging by the candid assessment he gives over coffee at the Dome, Regent Street. Alan McGee on Creation, Oasis and cashflow – a classic from the vaults 2013-05-29T17:08:13Z

He is also less sentimental about the past, "cheerfully corrupt" dockers, deep social and racial division in the Britain of his youth, over-mighty unions and inner city riots. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z

Not that he was particularly sentimental about the connection. The Picasso Museum Reopens in Paris 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s almost impossible for a filmmaker to face those squarely, without succumbing either to exploitative misery-mongering or to vaguely progressive sentimental humanism. ‘Atlantics’ Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Injustice in Senegal 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

His indoor tree is more sentimental and family-oriented, with ornaments that represent a part of his life — a place he’s visited, a person he’s lost. For this year’s Christmas tree decorations, embrace the unexpected 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

To some critics, Spielberg represents everything wrong with movies of the last 40 years: every manipulative, sentimental and infantile impulse used by him and endlessly exploited by her imitators. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z

The show is devastating without being sentimental, and Ms. Adlon’s Sam Fox is one of the best character studies on TV today. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

In both cases drawing becomes a way to rationalize a sentimental image. Art Review: Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity 2011-02-24T21:29:53Z

Does a work of imagination really have to be so “superficial and sentimental,” which is how the Black Puerto Rican journalist Jesús Colón described West Side Story when it debuted? The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Kinkade's sentimental paintings, with their scenes of country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by middlebrow America but reviled by the art establishment. Artist Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. at age 54 2012-04-07T04:56:37Z

Though the photos and happy memories of the sentimental moment will surely last a lifetime, Tim sadly passed away on March 28 — before his daughter’s upcoming wedding day. Bride-to-be nixes engagement shoot, takes photos with terminally ill father instead 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Thus, I spent last weekend watching the irresistibly titled VH1's 40 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 90s, rejecting the bright lights of Manhattan on a Saturday night to get sentimental over Snow's Informer. How to make cocaine uncool 2011-04-13T08:00:01Z

He wanted to deny audiences sentimental identification with his characters and force them to think about the social issues his plays raised; he called this revolutionary approach Epic Theatre. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

The image conveniently summed up this dance: competent, sentimental and fairly bland. Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The six men take the sentimental journey in the Kings’ truck—a sort of caravan of dreams—and it’s a road trip through some specific and significant turf. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

You wait for the work to turn sentimental, but it doesn’t. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

But when they arrived at the corner by the bench, Teddy approached, took Chè to their sentimental spot and dropped to a knee. Perspective | It was meant to be a Tinder fling. Months later, they were shopping for engagement rings. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Despite its name, Horace Silver’s seven-minute composition leaves me feeling the opposite: quite attended to, emotionally full — even sentimental. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

The evening is broad, hectoring, defiantly sentimental and, for the uninitiated, a revelatory gas. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

Once again, there’s common ground for the foes, both doomed to disappointment in a shallow and corrupt system, but this time there’s nothing sentimental about the inevitable guns-blazing showdown. New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The movie he made might be sentimental, but on the set, the director was not at all. Two stars of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ look back at a classic 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Behind the Candelabra starts off super-camp and hyper-kitsch, and long after the storm of parting it ends up gently sentimental and celebratory. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z

A little too twee and sentimental for comfort. Hidden treasures: Sir John Betjeman's Banana Blush 2013-02-15T10:10:12Z

The conclusion might seem to have a consolatory, faintly sentimental touch, but there is something a little off-key about the consolation. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z

When I first saw the musical “Once” at the New York Theater Workshop last December, it registered as a little too twee, too conventionally sentimental, for the East Village. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

This time around they’re choked and more than a little mawkish, the sentimental old boss’s goodbye. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z

From the start of their sentimental yet fraught connection, the director and the actors dramatize the equal likelihood of powerful experiences proving burdensome or energizing, of an enduring pain serving as motivation or as destruction. “Creed” Is a Knockout 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. O’Brien also showed off a gentler side, ending one week with an appealingly sentimental campfire song with all his guests. Critic’s Notebook: Gee, Conan, That Joke Seems Familiar 2012-11-09T23:47:19Z

But it's sentimental and glutinous, and the ending is almost surreal in its contrivance and unbelievability. Trouble with the Curve – review 2012-11-29T21:30:04Z

Plays about connections can so easily turn into sentimental weep-fests that manipulate you into tears, but the script, cast and Jo Bonney’s compassionate direction made this Broadway gem feel not just tender but true. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

He was sentimental, prone to fantasy as well as rumination, and he beckoned readers onward through teases written into his book inch by inch. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

“Blue” had been considered a sentimental favorite of sorts, because it was ineligible for the Oscar and also because it pushes the envelope on explicit sex scenes. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z

The Bon Temps scenes were sober, autumnal, slightly sentimental; the Sarah Newlin scenes were broad and a little unfeeling, like the show’s latter seasons in general. 'True Blood' Recap: Finale Says Farewell to Bad Things 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

To regard “Unknown Soldier” primarily as a sentimental work, however, is a disservice to the complexity of this imperfect musical and, above all, to Friedman as a songwriter. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

She said that all romantic comedies were essentially mash-ups of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," but Ephron injected the formula with a populist, somewhat sentimental flavor. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

Its musicians refuse to stay within regional genres or to aim for the sentimental common denominator of international Latin pop. Latin Alternative Music Conference?s Happy Fusion 2010-07-11T22:50:00Z

My mom, who works as a university dean, is a more sentimental type: “It’s like a dream being here with my husband and son.” Frugal Traveler: Croatia: Take Your Parents to Work Week 2011-06-21T19:01:39Z

For longtime readers, turning these pages can quickly became a sentimental journey. Review | 7 beautiful books that transport you to the worlds of Bond, Tolkien, Spider-Man and beyond 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But “The Irishman” isn’t sentimental about that, either. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Years later he recalled, “It’s not hard to win when you are a boy soprano singing a sentimental song in tattered clothes with a half-starved dog.” Max Bygraves, Jovial British Entertainer, Is Dead at 89 2012-09-08T22:15:06Z

Then I remembered the electrician and the sentimental education he was giving himself at 9 in the morning, alone with his iPorn. Porn on demand, dating apps and nonstop Internet commerce: Technology is ruining our sex lives 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stallone, meanwhile, is being buoyed by a ton of sentimental good will, to wit the standing ovation that followed for his Golden Globe win. Topsy-Turvy Oscars Race May Gain Clarity in Directors Guild Awards 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

According to Mental Floss, the Rockefeller Tree tradition began with a sentimental start in 1931, in the thick of the Great Depression. Rockefeller Christmas Tree: 12 things you never knew 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

But Hicks, while undoubtedly a compassionate author, is never sentimental. Growing up is hard to do in 'Amateurs' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Diop was also keen to push back against the western media’s refugee narrative, whether it be coldly statistical or paralysingly sentimental. Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you' 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s as jolly as the jolliest Merseybeat song, as sentimental as a Wings album. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

I kind of wanted to hate it because it's so cheesy, and I was a much younger man at the time and wasn't comfortable being sentimental. Shooting hoops and K-dramas: The American dream of not being relegated to a subplot 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

This has an honesty and rugged complexity that makes Twombly's misty colours seem sentimental. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z

Figurines of angry family members echo the sentimental statuary that upstanding Victorians kept on their mantelpieces. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z

Throughout, they peel off into wistful solos and duets or sit on the floor, watching each other perform — a change in perspective that unfortunately shifts the tone from angelic to sentimental. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

And watching the characters transform from callow youth to fading-away elders is moving but never sentimental. 'The Undertow': one family, four powerful generational stories 2012-05-23T20:20:04Z

Before turning the page, Fortune welcomed the designer and writer David Netto for one final sentimental tour before handing over the keys to the new owner. | A House Tour of the Designer Paul Fortune’s Laurel Canyon Masterpiece 2013-12-19T21:04:31Z

Vito laments: “I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should listen.” With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

By the end of the gentle, forgiving and ruminative number, so typical of Harnick’s gentle, forgiving and ruminative art, you come willingly to the couple’s conclusion, sentimental or not: Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The self-described "Painter of Light" was known for sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes. Thomas Kinkade's wife, girlfriend head to court 2012-07-02T10:31:04Z

And wasn't it convenient that he tells a sentimental version of this story to Alison because he wants to bed her again -- and he tells its so well that he succeeds? ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

He goes back into the past and finds a life, which is probably another kind of romantic, sentimental idea, but I like it. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z

It has threatened to render sentimental and obsolete the retail politics of Iowa and New Hampshire. Did Mike Bloomberg waste $500 million running for president? We’re about to find out. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

“I really admired him,” Nocentelli said, clearly sentimental about their long, complicated friendship. The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

On Sept. 22, a pilot only identified as Andy apologized to customers traveling from Cancun, Mexico, to Manchester, England, for the delay in deplaning in a speech that quickly turned sentimental, Devon Live reports. Thomas Cook employees give emotional speeches during final landings, viral videos show 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

I needed to hear its music to imagine the history of this seafaring city and the hopes and dreams of its sentimental people. In Portugal, a personal Age of Discovery 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But in "Bridesmaids," McCarthy devised a persona that is anything but soft or sentimental. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The story romances her anguish, or maybe cinematographer it's the sentimental rosy golds and grays Darius Khondji surrounds her with, but it is transfixing. "Lisey's Story" isn't a horror tale as much as a cry to end it all sooner 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Corner” may be a touch too sentimental and conventional to supplant Makoto Shinkai’s “Your Name” as the hot anime of the moment. From Hiroshima to Tule Lake, Films About Japan and America 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

He stands over her grave site, with Rumpelstiltskin not the least sentimental. 'Once Upon a Time': Meet Maleficent's child, Lily -- all grown up 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

It’s startling how seldom you see that kind of realism in American movies, which are more comfortable with separate spheres and with a cautiously sentimental view of heterosexual domesticity. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Borrowing from later variations on Looney’s research, known as the two-part Prince Tudor theories, Anonymous’ Edward is finally motivated to allow his previously private plays to be performed for romantic, sentimental and political reasons. Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really? 2011-10-26T21:44:13Z

Even if it’s sentimental to some extent, it’s also historically powerful in the French imagination. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Cohen’s audience tweets in questions as the show goes on, questions that are often specific and trashy, but not sentimental. Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

But “The Grey” unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

Sometimes this involves karaoke, and sometimes it involves breaking into an ex's apartment to retrieve a sentimental object. "It is an unapologetically joyful film": Director urges viewers to visit Hulu's charming "Rye Lane" 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

He takes his place at the piano and begins a starkly sentimental journey through a sprawling town on the edge of an ocean. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

This willfully old-fashioned musical wants so badly to be pretty in its scenic frills and sentimental flourishes that it entirely forgets about being true. 'Waterfall' plunges over the edge of banality 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Scott manages to be sentimental and sardonic in the same breath. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

For his tenth solo album, Paul McCartney drew his title from Lennon's whimsical story, honoring his fallen mate and christening his most sentimental post-Beatles release in the same breath. Paul McCartney's "Flaming Pie" burns ever brighter in this new reissue, a completist's dream 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

In place of the ending the playwright wrote, the director substitutes a sentimental tableau. In ‘A Wilder Christmas,’ Darkness Laced With Sentiment 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Give this, along with a thoughtful, personal and sentimental note — and assume your friend will treasure it. Ask Amy: Open e-mail brings out the worst in marriage 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

This last, sentimental night, the talent was mostly homegrown. ‘American Idol’ Ends With One Final Argument Over the Winner 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

That’s right, “North Atlantic,” the diametric geographical and sentimental opposite of “South Pacific.” Theater Review | 'North Atlantic': A Military Musical, With a Little Twist, From Wooster Group 2010-03-23T21:48:00Z

The results can sometimes veer toward the sentimental, even the saccharine, but they always have wide-ranging warmth and inimitable gusto. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Sipping a red “Eye for an Eye”, fellow diner Corinna Kwan said the drink was both a sentimental reminder of the incident and “really delicious”. Hong Kong diners offered protest-inspired 'eyeball' mocktails and... 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the revival at Signature Theatre, despite a luxe period mise en scene and robust demonstrations of vocal authority, now strikes a spectator as pat and overly sentimental. Review | This revival of ‘Grand Hotel’ offers only cold comfort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Money Monster” begins with a jolt of satire, proceeds through a maze of beat-the-clock exposition and lands on a surprisingly gentle, sentimental note. Review: In ‘Money Monster,’ a Broke Investor Holds a Grudge and a Gun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

At the time, it was a sentimental and well-worn vision that defined the West: rugged cowboys, sweeping pastoral beauty, the triumphalist, freedom-loving heart of America itself. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

But it’s in the drawing of his Brooklyn, where men are men and your word is your word and nobody, but nobody, messes with your local, that it all comes off a tad sentimental. The Drop review: James Gandolfini's swansong unfolds at Brooklyn fights 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

It was simultaneously vicious and sentimental, a uniter and a divider. The End of ‘American Idol,’ TV’s Last Cultural Big Tent 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Trainor seems to have a song for every taste, from sassy to sentimental. A very Meghan Trainor Valentine’s 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

There would be no overtly sentimental show of harmony Wednesday on the curtain-lined stage, done up like an elegant ballroom. Review: Heart’s comeback roar echoes through Tacoma Dome during all-star Love Alive tour stop 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The show and accompanying book of Shaw's Thrift Store Paintings spawned a market for the hapless and the abject, the sentimental and crazy. Artist Jim Shaw stuffs American pop culture through the Rinse Cycle 2012-11-08T17:21:36Z

Instead, the fake funeral was gentle and moving and hilarious, because Better Things is sentimental without ever being trite, and, by contrast, painful when it should be soothing. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

There are moments, though — and they come more often as the episode goes along — when the tone turns a little more earnest and brushes up against the sentimental. ‘Marry Me’ on NBC and ‘Uncle’ on DirecTV 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Not for sentimental reasons,” he says, “but because it looks better, it feels better, it connects the audience with the creatures in a way that CG doesn’t in certain scenarios.” In ‘Jurassic World,’ Old-School Effects Make a Comeback 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

They make a good-faith effort to avoid one-dimensional characters and pat, sentimental conclusions, and “King” is slightly wittier and more interesting than shows like “White Collar” or “Rizzoli & Isles.” Television Review: ‘King,’ on Reelz, Shows a Tougher Side of Toronto 2013-07-04T21:53:31Z

A hard, hairy nut with a soft, sentimental centre, Jake travels from Paris to Spain and never wavers from his credo of two-fisted machismo and profound feelings of sexual inadequacy. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z

But the new Musgraves is sentimental: “Around here we all look out for each other.” Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

By then, you’re likely to be feeling sentimental about the delicacy of the work that you thought “On Blueberry Hill” was going to be. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

"The family tale that is told in PowerPoint is one that would have sound treacly and sentimental if I had written it in conventional fiction," explains Egan. Time lady 2011-04-01T08:13:48Z

I know you’re not sentimental, but write stuff down more, take more pictures. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

When they're all flying away in a chopper later, the musician and the comedian sit together and share a moment that's devastating precisely because it's tossed-off and not trying to be sentimental. The rough magic of "Louie" 2011-08-25T14:59:00Z

No hokey decoys or sentimental trappings of Americana. Kitchens by the AD 100 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like the setup for a sentimental American movie about people with radically different backgrounds connecting. Review: ‘Monchichi,’ a Love Story in Different Languages 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“And Mr. De Niro is able to lend toughness to an ending that risks becoming overpoweringly sentimental, and instead succeeds in conveying a strong sense of father-son love.” What’s on TV Thursday: N.B.A. Finals and ‘A Bronx Tale’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Emma divulged that her fiancé, Richard, was in on the surprise, though the heels from heaven were an “absolute shock” and indescribably sentimental. Bride finds secret message from her late mother on wedding heels 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

One would hardly expect the network, which parted ways with Conan O'Brien in January, to keep a lot of sentimental mementos hanging around. 2010-02-09T19:10:00Z

“It was always just a real special sentimental touchstone for me,” he said. Seattle’s Nutcracker house in Ballard returns after a year of uncertainty 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

“It was his own very unique, very sentimental style, but sentimental in the very best sense of the word.” Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The era that I grew up in was a warm, sentimental time. With ‘The Visit,’ M. Night Shyamalan Returns to His Filmmaking Roots 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t sentimental and there is a ferocity to his work, even in the gentlest landscapes, that suggests a fight against loss or death, a desperation to hold on to particular images and sensations. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

You can argue with that, call it naive or sentimental, but there's no denying its influence. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The sentimental highlight of the evening is seeing Don Rickles gratefully receive his trophy. Trophies and laughs await on 'The Comedy Awards' 2012-05-04T15:46:11Z

Yes, for sentimental and, certainly, artistic reasons, the change at the top of the company will have a sizable impact. How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

They would not be convinced by the thought that the cliches of rock and its sentimental support system now form the oppressive orthodoxy. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z

MyHomeIdeas & MyRecipes   networks Print « Return to Done in a Day: Hanging Photo Display Done in a Day: Hanging Photo Display This project turns treasured family photographs into sentimental wall art. 2010-02-08T16:58:00Z

As for the special dress, Shriver said it was all the more sentimental that it aged with time. Eunice Kennedy Shriver marries in grandmother's Dior wedding dress 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Read more Philip French said: The film aims to be simultaneously a coarse sentimental little-guy comedy, a tale of embracing the American dream, and an increasingly serious underdog fight movie on the lines of Rocky. What films have you been watching? 2012-11-12T14:34:26Z

And its finale, unsurprisingly, offers bittersweet catharses for the Australian authority figures and sentimental irresolution for the detainees. Review: In ‘Stateless’ on Netflix, Cate Blanchett (and Immigration) 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

But there is nothing sentimental about Dickinson or her poems. Review | A writer ponders Emily Dickinson’s most pivotal moments 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

“They tend to be more sentimental about things and want to hang on to them,” Goodman says. Marie Kondo makes tidying look easy. These devotees hit a few bumps on the road to joy. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

“With a Little Help From My Friends” and “When I’m Sixty-Four” are labored exercises in cutely sentimental comedy. Review: Mark Morris’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In a more touching development, "Future Past" is also lyrically sentimental. Falling for Duran Duran's "Future Past," which reflects the band's signature ingenuity and sentiment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

“But the overlap in their sensibilities turns ‘Loro’ into a blurry, distracted, sentimental portrait.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Togo’ and ‘The Witcher’ 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

In the Danish director Anders Walter’s sentimental tear-jerker “Helium,” stories told by a hospital janitor to a dying boy lift the child’s spirits in his final days. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z

It's about the yearning for a past America that, at least in sentimental hindsight, looks better than the present. Lewis Black's comedy 'One Slight Hitch' lacks his signature bite 2012-06-18T17:32:03Z

The sentimental favorite for me is the scene in which Eli Roth shoots Hitler in the face. Watching Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" in the Trump era 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

You also know that Mr. Eastwood’s dry, grouchy manner camouflages a sentimental streak and that at least one member of the younger generation will be the object of tenderness rather than contempt. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z

In this deeply sentimental inspirational-teacher story, Mr. Moore crams his experiences into the familiar formula of an exuberant outsider inspiring his difficult charges. Theater: A Fringe Too Tame? Too Bad 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

They are allowed to swear more robustly than on network or basic-cable shows, to deliver sentimental speeches along with punch lines and to play with or against type as the mood suits. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

"For a long time musicals were looked on as populist, limited, a sentimental art form," he says. Musicals hit a deeper note as directors bring serious themes to the stage 2013-04-13T14:47:07Z

And so she does, slowly and without tears, across pages that never succumb to a single melodramatic or sentimental phrase. Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: A masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself

I’ll admit that for the first 50 pages or so I worried it was going to be overly sentimental – Ronnie starts off being portrayed as an almost saintly character. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

In a more sentimental direction, there was Rolling Stone's collection of musicians' responses to the tragedy. Media, stars react to death of Amy Winehouse 2011-07-25T15:59:00Z

Despite offering an undeniably sentimental view of working-class life, it suggests that the comic chinless wonders have a great deal to learn from them about love, loyalty and spirit. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z

Humphreys, understandably, was cautious: her big worry was that he would do a sentimental, Hollywood number on her. The son also rises: Jim Loach directs his first film 2011-03-31T22:00:02Z

The dancing third movement held plenty of swagger and even a certain sentimental abandon in the generous portamenti played by the strings. Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

A widely praised film about a wayward media mogul — with genius galore, but no central sympathetic character — was up against a sentimental, well-wrought family drama set in the United Kingdom. The Reasons Why the Oscar Race Is Already Over 2011-01-31T09:15:00Z

But Crowe isn't sentimental about the natural world of instinct that her Vixen inhabits. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

Actual journalists often found the tone a bit mawkish and sentimental, like the voice-over on films you used to watch about civics in grade school. Perspective | Born in the age of high hopes, the Newseum dies in the days of fake news 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Idealized, sanitized and sentimental, the Cosbys' artistic interests are not even especially distinguished. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s not someone coming back to a place where they felt good for the sentimental feeling of a return,” she added. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Associated with a particular time and place in her life, they have a slight sentimental value, but not much more. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

It was this weird sentimental thing of, well, she got me to Graceland eventually, but it was sadly upon her death. Billy Corgan Loves an Old-Fashioned American Story 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Those who have read his autobiography will know the sentimental value behind each object; they will remember the author’s love stories, his changing emotions and how he put together his collection, piece by piece. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z

Like Murphy, Lewis has always had a sentimental side as well as a dramatic one. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

While the underlying story, told mostly through movement, is sad and ultimately as sentimental as a soap opera, it’s played for dark laughs, somewhat like an absurdist Nordic version of “M.A.S.H.” Review: ‘The Hospital’: 3 Nurses, No Patients, Dark Ritual 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

A dark night of the soul while the case is in progress is soon replaced by his sentimental belief in himself as the injured party, unrepentant to the very end. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

It has engendered criticism that it is manipulative and overly sentimental. Zach Braff moves on to a parental state in 'Wish I Was Here' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But what could have been simply a sentimental valentine to a beloved matriarch turned into a haunting dual portrait. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z

But overall, the presentation and writing are sentimental in the noblest possible way. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z

Now he returns with a rich, sweet slice of Americana – although a little more contrived and sentimental than it promises to be at first. Cannes 2012: Mud – review 2012-05-26T16:58:05Z

Schapker, from “Altered Carbon,” echoed these sentiments, saying that these shows did not need to be turned into sentimental fantasies or dismal dirges either. They Create Nightmare Worlds for TV. Now They’re Living in One. 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

At the final blackout, my immediate reaction was, when did Mr. Rizzo become sentimental? Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Dances a Work by Christian Rizzo 2014-05-08T20:54:15Z

But as any member of a former colony will tell you, sentimental deference dies hard. Joker was criticised for ripping off old classics. So why does 1917 get a pass? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Instead, it morphs into an entertaining, if finally rather sentimental, comedy. In the House – review 2013-03-28T09:15:01Z

A half-century before Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” and a century before Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian doctrine, he has come up with the simple expedient of maximizing public good by eliminating any sentimental concern for the individual. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

“One of the items that always makes me sad to see are the wedding cake knives, because of the sentimental value.” The weird afterlife of banned TSA items 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Part of the problem is probably the play itself, which is considered less scintillating and more sentimental than its predecessors. Opera Review: Riccardo Muti in His Element With Further Adventures of Figaro 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z

His style — sophisticated yet straightforward, emotional but never sentimental — deepened while remaining largely constant over his career. Lee Hoiby, Opera Composer Known for Lyricism, Dies at 85 2011-03-29T05:00:25Z

It's a slight, sentimental, touching tale, told in a flexible, mixed metre and fluent rhyme. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

There's no The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, but he finds time for the sentimental Your Daddy Loves You, and the despairing The Bottle is sawn in half by a chant of "celebrate, celebrate". Gil Scott-Heron 2010-04-26T22:30:00Z

Abby Lovitt lives on a horse ranch in California and knows it's not wise to get sentimental about the animals in her family's care, because they all get sold eventually. Fiction for older children ? reviews 2011-07-21T10:40:32Z

Maupin acknowledges that childlike characters are difficult to pull off because they can come across as exhaustingly chaotic or cloyingly sentimental — a common criticism of the Pee-wee Herman character from those who weren't fans. "Larger than life, but still true": Where Pee-wee Herman fits in the history of American clowns 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Weitz treats them all with a fondness that feels entirely unforced, and his sentimental tendencies are balanced by their mostly dry-eyed performances, and above all by Ms. Tomlin’s peppery honesty. Review: In ‘Grandma,’ Lily Tomlin Energizes an Intergenerational Road Trip 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Remakes — especially of beloved classics — run the risk of alienating sentimental moviegoers. Review: Why the New ‘Flatliners’ Is Just ‘Meh’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Systemic injustices remain in the blurry background of these sentimental, humanist portraits. ‘Five Years North’ Review: Opposite Sides of Immigration 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

There’s never any doubt about who’s right, however, despite the inevitable, sentimental, vodka-fueled detente between the two sides. | 'Exporting Raymond': A TV Series Lost in Translation 2011-04-29T04:03:02Z

Some brought a sentimental tear to my eye. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Schumann’s oratorio is one of his less appreciated compositions today, not least because of an embarrassingly sentimental text, drawn from Thomas Moore’s “Lalla Rookh,” that charts the mythical peri’s quest to return to heaven. Classical Playlist: Holliger, Pieczonka, Sivan Magen and More 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a hugely sentimental film, for better and worse, and for me the casting of Morgan Freeman as Red isn’t ideal, even if he did get an Oscar nomination. I've never seen … The Shawshank Redemption 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The play is long, baggy, conventional and at times downright sentimental. Fences – review 2013-03-03T14:42:17Z

It’s heartbreaking, but never sentimental, reminiscent of the father and son in another great environmental novel, Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” ‘Eyrie’ by Tim Winton, a remarkable novel about a bitter environmentalist in Australia

But the movie, like so many, insists on making a sentimental case for sibling bonding; the two eventually offer forced declarations of love. Jack and Jill: What An Awful Drag 2011-11-10T20:33:21Z

Four ingredients may be all that he needs to bake up success, along with a little luck in guessing that shortbread holds some sentimental value to his boss. The "Ted Lasso" way to make shortbread fit for “Biscuits with the Boss” 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

The movie is considerably more sentimental than the Camus, which is as arid as its stark milieu and absent a ray of hope. Review: In ‘Far From Men,’ a Teacher Caught in the Crossfire 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Far from being grim, however, Lewis’s sculptures are marked by bits of whimsy — a pop of color, a jaunty placement, a sentimental handprint. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

That "went home for more" is about as bluntly sentimental as this novelist gets; the character of Des a creation of uncharacteristic sympathy. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

"Field of Dreams" may be sentimental, but it's also a very smart commentary on sentimentality. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z

If not free of sentimental moralizing, “Freaks and Geeks” is generally unflinching in its identification with high school outcasts. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

But the two characters at the center remain opaque; Morgan resorts to the same shallow, sentimental notions of love gone sour and family inflexibility that were the stuff of public mythmaking. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

The film received mainly positive reviews and was a box-office success, but was also criticized for being overly sentimental and simplistic in its treatment of racial inequalities in America. Director Haggis polarizes again with 'puzzle' of a film, 'Third Person' 2013-09-12T20:38:09Z

First, the film is thankfully free of songs, either comic or sentimental. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:55Z

“The Housatonic at Stockbridge” turns a sentimental, pastoral poem into a profound reflection on identity. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z

I’m a sentimental pack rat; Nancy pares everything down to what she wants and needs. A Connection Was Made ‘Within Seconds’ of Their First Call 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Liu’s women, in contrast, tend to be nurturing, sentimental and weak. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s engrossing and transparently sentimental video installation, “The Specter of Ancestors Becoming.” ‘Soft Power’: When Political Art Walks a Very Fine Line 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The irreverent, comic tone is judged well – until the sentimental ending goes and ruins it all. No Hats, No Trainers 2010-07-17T05:45:00Z

His rendition of the show's sentimental anthem, "The Impossible Dream," is hearty enough and certainly heartfelt. Review: Taproot stages a compact 'Man of La Mancha' 2010-07-20T21:19:00Z

It does, however, indulge the text’s moments of sentimental cliché. ‘This Is Who I Am’ Review: Cooking With Dad, Remotely 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Bourne knows his people, and knows that his combination of the quirky, the sentimental and the Hollywood-referential reaches the places that other dance shows don't. Matthew Bourne's Cinderella ? review 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

My sentimental favorites are the performances that come from pure love. “Lip Sync Battle”: Hanging with the Prom Kings and Queens 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

From the experience, Yvette made work that was not sentimental but reflective of the domestic ties that bind survivors to their grief, now and forever. Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Two for 2 — for Dilla” is no less sentimental, even if the song structure is less traditional. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The Memorial is, rather, a sentimental gesture toward the whole ‘Greatest Generation,’ about whom we are getting so sentimental now that we’ve put them in nursing homes.” Books of The Times: ?Holidays in Heck,? by P. J. O?Rourke - Review 2011-11-29T23:13:18Z

Brand is tall, lanky, and, at 74, still super vigorous, and the talk – part science seminar, part history lesson, part sentimental appeal – was a rousing advertisement for de-extinction’s potential. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z

The act of analysing the content of TV – or of other mediums – is either sentimental or it's beside the point. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today 2011-07-20T18:00:15Z

They are artful but not arty, imbued with sentiment but not sentimental. Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Forty Years of Marriage 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Most of the men that have been part of my sentimental life have not been in this kind of position. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

They are allowed to be sillier than either of the two stars, who are saddled with the thankless task of providing sentimental ballast that nobody really needs. Review: ‘Night School’ Has Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and a Few Laughs 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

A fable about an 11-year old motherless boy in a rough, depressed mining town, and his burgeoning passion for ballet dancing, the indie film was gritty but also sentimental, bleak but hopeful, too. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z

The result is “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

The mood is sometimes jaunty, but “The Great Silence” is no joke, and the fatalism of its ending serves as an implicit critique of the sentimental optimism of many Hollywood westerns. Review: ‘The Great Silence,’ a 1968 Spaghetti Western Unchained 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

This scene exemplifies the sort of sentimental morality play that has — unexpectedly — become one of the hallmarks of C.K.’s work. How Louis C.K. became the Oprah of comedy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Del Toro's sense of characterisation is calligraphic, sentimental in the best sense, almost Cruikshankian: everyone is outlined with bold, fluid strokes that that lead them right back into the thick of the action. Pacific Rim: 'thrilling bit of blockbuster sublimity 2013-07-12T13:32:00Z

He made no apology for the frankly sentimental lyrics, with references to snow-capped mountains and lingering shadows on the land. Johnny Mann, leader of Grammy-winning TV singing group, dies at 85

A sentimental late Renoir painting, “Young Woman with Roses,” hangs in front of shelves filled with finely bound bibliographical volumes. The Secret Art Collection of a Reclusive Italian Tycoon Is Unveiled 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Letterman had said that, in his final episode, he did not necessarily want to duplicate the sentimental tone of his mentor, Johnny Carson, who signed off from NBC’s “Tonight” show in 1992. Closing Out a Late-Night Era, Letterman Goes for Laughs Instead of Tears 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Of course Russell and the screenwriters are driving toward a sentimental conclusion -- much more sentimental than the real ending of the Ward-Eklund story, as it happens -- but the journey is plenty wrenching. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z

The next morning as we stood beside his van on the sidewalk, he studied me — glassy-eyed and sentimental — the way he did when a memory jarred loose. I lost my dad in Nomadland 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

He plays himself as at once artless and knowing, cheerfully sentimental but with a mean streak when it comes to protecting his buddy. The Greatest Movie Performance by an Active Professional Basketball Player 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

My parents were never sentimental, and they didn’t put much stock in their possessions. A gift from Buchenwald 2012-07-09T20:00:00Z

Lanegan is hardly one to be sentimental, but expect a memorable show nonetheless. Sasquatch! festival 'how-to' for novices and veterans alike 2012-05-24T17:42:03Z

Propitiously an invitation arrives from a favourite teacher, a leftwing political science professor, to speak at his imminent retirement dinner, and Jesse seizes this chance to make a sentimental journey back to his old campus. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-06T23:05:35Z

These poems are sometimes dismissed as uplifting to the point of being overly sentimental. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

This makes his production, directed by David Schweizer and also starring Nora Cole, deeply sentimental or, if you prefer, sentimentally deep. Theater Review: Culture Project?s Revival of ?And God Created Great Whales? 2012-02-16T01:03:49Z

Yet what makes the craft worthwhile is how, through extremely mitigated prose and skillful curating, it manages never to become sentimental. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

You see, under my cynical shell I’m a sentimental mess. Nicky Silver on His Broadway Run of ‘The Lyons’ 2012-07-06T04:47:18Z

But the cold clarity of the film’s key flashback scene, showing the Normandy invasions in all their gruesome glory, cuts through the sentimental schmaltz like a bayonet through human flesh. From Game of Thrones to The Revenant: the best battle scenes of all time 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Fisher, however, would not want fans to get too sentimental, Hamill said. Leia leads resistance in Carrie Fisher's final 'Star Wars' film 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The sentimental overtones could be quieted a bit, but the lyrical landscapes and the emotional weather are in place. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

When “Camp X-Ray” finally turns sentimental, you may feel betrayed. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Responding to an instantaneous standing ovation from a largely Korean-American throng, the orchestra presented showy arrangements of two traditional Korean songs for its encores: “Chunan Street,” a buoyant romp, and “Hometown Spring,” a sentimental ballad. Music Review: Korean Symphony at Carnegie, Brahms via Seoul 2010-06-02T21:50:00Z

Rosi, who directed the migrant-focused “Fire at Sea,” excels at uncovering scenes of drama and emotion without leveraging them for sentimental impact. ‘Notturno’ Review: The Heart of the Middle East 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

In driving home his message, Mr. Fugard can strike sentimental notes, too, that verge on the maudlin. Theater Review: Athol Fugard in His Play ‘The Shadow of the Hummingbird’ 2014-04-11T22:48:25Z

It's one of those that forces you to analyze your own relationship with these things, like your sentimental relationship with music and how that plays into your own life. Lucy Boynton on playing the misunderstood Marie Antoinette: "She had this rebellious streak to her" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

A decade ago the son of Libya's then still very much alive dictator showed sentimental paintings of desert scenes in an exhibition sponsored by fawning business allies. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z

"The Midnight Sky," does manage one nice, sentimental moment — an unusually soulful exchange between Augustine and Sully — but Clooney builds up to this almost by accident. With "Midnight Sky," George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The crowd were great, it felt good on stage, we knew it was the last time we'd be playing this set together in this incarnation, so it was sentimental, too ... Tim Rogers and the Bamboos: how we won over WOMADelaide 2013-03-11T04:29:34Z

“I am one of those people. The sentimental value of seeing a person’s handwriting and being able to reflect on that time is so important.” Holiday cards are having a moment, thanks to their popularity with millennials 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The larger issues “Soft Power” seeks to amplify end up a bit muffled by the author’s need to apply autobiography and ultimately, a sentimental finish. Review | Ever wondered how China sees America? ‘Soft Power’ offers amusing ideas. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Well done on the video, especially the powerful but not overly sentimental commentary. 'Dancing with the Stars' recap: 10th anniversary special 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

A series of enjoyably sentimental flashbacks show them as drunk, drugged and loving university friends before the Course got hold of them. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Revelations by Alex Preston 2012-09-25T14:27:51Z

As with Channel 4's excellent maternity ward documentary One Born Every Minute, it's moving without being sentimental, and frank without being morbid – especially when giving a platform to some heroically cussed teens, refusing further operations. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-19T23:05:00Z

“A lot of people are getting more sentimental and thinking more about family and interacting with loved ones,” she said. Meet Tumblr’s 15-Year-Old Secret Keeper 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Call me a sentimental old fool but I'd hope that any marriage would last longer than, say, mustard. It was famous while it lasted: Celebrities as marital guest stars 2011-11-30T19:25:03Z

A capable feature that enjoyed a theatrical run in its native Vietnam, "Saigon Electric" can't help, nevertheless, but remind one of Disney Channel movies skewed toward sentimental kids. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-24T17:02:05Z

These are serious, highly trained individuals forced to deliver drippingly sentimental narration and to exchange manly but meaningful glances while weeping violins egg them on. Movie Review: ?Act of Valor,? Starring Navy SEAL Members 2012-02-23T23:52:01Z

Eminem has always been a walking paradox, using several different personas – Eminem, Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers, B Rabbit – to say everything from the hateful to the unpopular to the nearly absurdly sentimental. Hip-hop goes for gay marriage 2013-04-02T15:27:00Z

The new film is a touching tribute, if perhaps a bit more solemn and funereal than necessary, with some unfortunately sentimental choices in music. Television Review: Junger’s Film ‘Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?’ on HBO 2013-04-17T22:06:41Z

In a sentimental video posted on March 20, the Big Boss announced his retirement from the music industry. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

And it did, for the next decade or so, as Mr. Cox wore it daily, whether gardening or doing light construction jobs, thinking it was really valuable only to him, for sentimental reasons. Paul Newman’s Rare Rolex Has Auction Watchers Buzzing 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It's not at all sentimental, which it might have been with a British director full of reverence for it. Gary Oldman steps into shadows for "Tinker Tailor" 2011-12-08T19:08:24Z

“For me, it’s part physiological — I just crave it when I’m fasting — and part sentimental,” Mr. Maskatia said. Breaking the Ramadan Fast in Quarantine 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Here’s some needlessly sentimental Jackson Browne to put you in the mood. David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

This is not exactly a rare war-movie notion, but “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” explores it with gentleness rather than sentimental bombast. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

More than the sentimental figure of the concubine, this final image most memorably expresses the show’s central theme: the too high cost of war. ‘Under Siege’ Review: A Heady Mix of Dance and Martial Arts 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Throughout, he strummed the guitar too hard, but never sang hard enough, presumably imagining himself as the hero of his sentimental story-songs while only ever comporting himself as a well-liked pop star. Review | Are Ed Sheeran’s songlike secretions actually holding the universe together? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

There is little dramatic tension or psychological depth to this cinematic biography, and even in sentimental moments, McCabe fails to elicit an emotional response from her subject or the audience. ‘Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?’ Review: Wickedly Talented 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

But Brooks has always been most convincing at his most nakedly sentimental. Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

There are sentimental themes, where the piano is in quiet dialog with the cellos, and other portions where it seems to use all 88 keys in every phrase. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z

Stark and ambiguous in the film, the ending in the opera is a sentimental moment for mother and daughter that softens what could have been a raw, taut depiction of war and its victims. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

At the start of a conversation about “Parks and Recreation,” Amy Poehler said with a sentimental laugh, “Part of me is like, ‘Is this the last time I’ll ever speak of it?’ Amy Poehler on Enjoying the View From the Losers’ Circle and Moving On 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

These are short, charming, sentimental and tuneful, often with some dashing virtuosic passages thrown in. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

A sentimental attachment to the "mystery" of Shakespeare goes hand in hand with the idea that he and his works are a sublime mirror to our contemporary predicament. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

Earnest, sentimental and intermittently charming, this family production offers a slice of American history that here tastes mostly like apple pie. Review: Lady Liberty Steps Off Her Pedestal to Sing 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

But I have a sentimental attachment to the brisk, direct older style, especially when it comes from a careful, traditional producer like Burlotto. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

With nearly 50,000 buyers every month, it's actually making a profit – largely because it's tart but not truculent, sympathetic but not sentimental, caustic rather than cosy. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z

Proving it on Thursday night, the slouching Philadelphia indie troubadour Alex G sang his sloppy, sentimental, frequently wonderful rock songs to the floor in a way that felt pouty, then transportational. SXSW 2015: When a music festival feels like an after-party 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

But perhaps a call from you to the ex about the sentimental value of the jewelry may help? How Can I (Kindly) Tell People to Wear Masks in Public? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Each individual’s belongings—both sentimental and practical—are vital to survival. The epic theater of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: The surprising intellectual rigor behind TV’s most campy competition 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

“Requiem” bases most of its sentimental power on stillness or the swish of a skirt. Dance Review: A ?Requiem? Unwraps Stillness Swathed in Silk 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z

It’s such a beautifully written and clever film without being overly sentimental and cheesy. Nick Park and Jane Horrocks: how we made Chicken Run 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The Hardy films were wholesome, sentimental comedies in which Andy would often learn a valuable lesson from his wise father, Judge Hardy. Mickey Rooney, versatile actor and master showman, dies at 93 2014-04-07T21:03:24Z

The soundtrack is also filled with songs, from blaring hip-hop to sentimental jukebox standards, that were not performed Tuesday night. ‘Moonlight’ screens to live music, packed crowd at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theatre 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

An art that he had once disparaged as sentimental, he now found universal in its appeal. The Art of Della Robbia: From Earth and Water, Pure Beauty 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

None of that really interests Mendes here, even though the story of Hilary and Stephen might have benefited from a tougher, less sentimental telling. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

More sentimental rubbish has been written about the 'plight of the elderly' than I can bear to contemplate. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z

Ms. Shields, 51, has come to realize that those pieces have significantly more than sentimental value. Brooke Shields, Amid the Harings, Learns the Art of Collecting 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Though its author is only 29, “The Performers” is like an early Neil Simon farce with an X-rated vocabulary, or a blue-tongued episode of the smirky but sentimental TV series “Love American Style.” Theater Review: ‘The Performers,’ With Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson 2012-11-15T03:07:21Z

Inevitably they end up looking as if a grandchild has taken them for a spin at a cousin's wedding to the sentimental oohs and ahhs of their adult children. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z

It’s possible -- maybe even tempting, given Trudy’s admonition about “being sentimental about the past” -- to look at their reconciliation skeptically, but I’m choosing to believe that Pete is a changed man. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Pride in ownership and longevity combine to create sentimental value. Real Men Don’t Rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The Waltz of the Flowers was ultra-lush but also swift and muscular, and didn't sound one bit sentimental. SCO/Ticciati ? review 2011-01-24T18:21:14Z

Besides history, he read widely in literature and even wrote a sentimental novel called “Clisson.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, Rush's script and direction are exemplary, and he avoids all the most obvious and sentimental pitfalls or cop-outs. "Everything Must Go": Will Ferrell's dazzling serious role 2010-09-13T20:30:00Z

This makes “Life” the most overtly sentimental and traditionally comic of his works. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z

It’s Ms. Mailer’s own plucky and sometimes sentimental autobiography, written in the lemony sweet-tea mode of Southern novelists like Lee Smith. Books of The Times: Norris Church Mailer?s New Memoir, ?Ticket to the Circus? 2010-04-06T23:29:00Z

He’s become beloved through his work in movies and television, and his material is sweeter and more sentimental than in his dyspeptic 2007 classic, “Werewolves and Lollipops.” Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

But absent from the theatrical menu, especially on Broadway and in the large, prestigious nonprofit houses, are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater 2010-12-23T00:24:33Z

But "Miracle!"can be less crudely amusing, and it has a sentimental heart. Dan Savage's campy 'Miracle!': a delight to some, drag for others 2012-07-19T03:56:53Z

He’s looking for something both sentimental and trite: a guardian angel. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z

Instead, the violinist joined Close for "With One Look," from Andrew Lloyd Webber's sentimental musical based on the film. Joshua Bell's crossovers go nowhere in L.A. Phil's Bowl opener 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Or rather, if we insist on supposing that they are, it may be for our own sentimental reasons. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z

Vidal presented himself to the world as a witty sybarite, fearless social critic and hardworking professional writer, and that’s how he wished to be remembered, not as a falling-down drunk and sentimental depressive. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

But the Simpsons is far more than a sentimental look back on family life, though it is more often that than either its fans or its detractors believe. Happy birthd'oh!: The Simpsons celebrates 30 years of cultural milestones 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

With a Song in My Heart is joyful and sentimental – I learned the words from a film. Family life 2013-04-06T06:15:01Z

In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday, Mr. Naipaul, 78, derided Jane Austen, saying he “couldn’t possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world,” according to the Guardian. ArtsBeat: A Rant of His Own: V.S. Naipaul Takes on Women Writers 2011-06-03T18:54:56Z

Does this mean we are less sentimental, or has the way we express sentiment changed? Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Q: I don't mean melodrama as a genre so much as an overly sentimental tone. Why ‘Beautiful Boy’ director Felix Van Groeningen is fascinated by the fragility of families 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, even though she feared sounding sentimental, Tremain had hoped that her readers would love her hero. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z

Candy Cabs was, in its own tame and sentimental way, quite enjoyable. TV review: Candy Cabs and Campus 2011-04-05T22:15:01Z

Ms. Helin and the Scandinavian writers are less sentimental with Saga than the American show was with Ms. Kruger’s character. After a Remake for American Viewers, Back to Understatement 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

“One of the things that I respect about Christian music and Christian pop music is that they’re willing to get sentimental,” he told The Brooklyn Rail in 2010. Making Peace With the Music Left by an Omnivorous Young Composer 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

The music was shaky or strong; the speeches were sentimental or pointed; but that’s secondary. Music Review: Jazz Masters Fellowships Celebrated at a Jazz Reunion - Review 2012-01-12T00:03:24Z

She said the family was holding on to the more sentimental pieces, including Hopper's own photography and paintings. Dennis Hopper art collection up for auction in NYC 2011-01-05T12:16:04Z

“Blockers” is sloppy, sentimental and too good-natured to take serious issue with, which is generally true of the other comedies that Seth Rogen’s production company has had a hand in. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But some rich families, when deciding where to settle, choose sentimental value over deluxe areas, resulting in homes so opulent they often stand out like sore thumbs. Middle-Of-Nowhere Mansions 2010-07-02T18:00:00Z

Few artists, Wallace says, "dare to try to talk about ways of redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naïve to all the weary ironists." The Carpetbagger: A Defender of 'Les Miz' 2013-01-30T15:00:19Z

He maintained a romance with music even as he interrogated his own place in the industry, and most importantly to me as a fan, he wasn’t afraid to be sentimental. Saying goodbye to Marc Spitz: Author, critic, playwright and true believer in rock & roll 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

And it helps if that person is extremely funny and seriously angry and experimental and heartbreaking, but never sentimental. Beware of Family Members Bearing Gifts 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

He represents the self-deception and viciousness underlying the south's much vaunted hospitality and chivalry that has for so long been the subject of sentimental celebration, not least by Hollywood movies. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z

Instead, begin with a small and relatively easy project — something that isn’t too emotional or sentimental — and proceed methodically. Perspective | Take the stress out of organizing with these 6 simple steps 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the wilderness is itself a human concept, a sentimental idea about the ultimate "authentic" landscape where nature's ethical influence is experienced as the revival of the self. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z

Still, he's more pragmatic than sentimental about the show's conclusion. Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

It’s sentimental, I know: time passes; the moment goes even as the shutter clicks. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

There are signs, even during the more sentimental sections of the book, of some deeper darkness we haven’t been shown, one that Victor hasn’t allowed himself to look directly at. A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

It's highly moralistic, rather sentimental, and it's animating an inanimate object. Hans Christian Andersen's first fairytale found 2012-12-13T12:01:07Z

Were it not for her work as a biographer, Susan’s words about the house might sound sentimental. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

In selecting Buzbee, Ryan passed over three journalists who had been considered leading candidates and sentimental favorites among many Post journalists. Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press named executive editor of The Washington Post, the first woman to lead the newsroom 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

In between was “Glee,” which managed to be savage and sentimental at the same time. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

But at this point, after negotiating these violent crimes and the levels of contempt all around them, I think it has earned the right to be sentimental. Broadchurch is a place overrun with casual misogyny – just like real life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

My biggest worry was that it would make it very sentimental, very emotional. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z

Indeed, the new record is winningly sentimental and sweet, and an excellent introduction to McGuire. Mark McGuire: the antithesis of the axeman 2010-09-29T14:02:00Z

“I like to do very romantic, sentimental type of work,” Mr. Marshall told The New York Times as the film was being released. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Partly it was because I usually well up, despite myself, over sentimental, love-of-learning plays with unforgettable mentor characters. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at Signature Center 2012-05-25T02:00:01Z

He and Julián generate more than enough chemistry to carry the script past its occasional sentimental moments. Father, son seek 'A Better Life' in moving drama 2011-07-14T19:29:10Z

Foreigners tend to know Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, through his love poems and possibly through the sentimental depiction of him in the 1995 Italian film “Il Postino.” Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Authenticity was replaced with artistry, what was once, in a sense, naïve became sentimental. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces

“It is true to old-fashioned opera in being sentimental. It is true to Apple in Bates’ applying technology, combining electronica and frisky orchestral music and lyrical vocal lines, in as friendly a way as possible.” Esssential Arts & Culture: An operatic Steve Jobs, a museum of O.J. ephemera, Dudamel and Venezuela's crisis 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The president, cool and reserved, seems to be the more sentimental of the two; his wife, slower to warm to the challenges facing them, proves more demanding and results oriented. 'The Obamas' a portrait of their life in D.C. 2012-01-09T15:37:00Z

The British Bulldog's gruff exterior may have played great on the world stage, but in the privacy of pen and paper, Winston Churchill proved himself a loving, sentimental husband to wife Clementine. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Their works, like “Striking 12” and “Long Story Short,” mix the snarky and the sentimental. Review: Could a Long-Gone Antarctic Explorer Be Mr. Right? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The show is structured to evoke sentimental suspense. Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The play is sentimental and as Irish as a Guinness garnished with a shamrock. Review: ‘The Man in the Woman’s Shoes,’ a Mikel Murfi Solo Play 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Its dialogue, while replete with a raw sexual vocabulary that its characters fail to grasp the implications of, falters when it skews sentimental. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

My dad was more sentimental about the animals than the rest of us, which probably meant he didn't make a great farmer. Polly Morgan's wings of desire 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z

“Hell of Holiday” is the album for the holiday survivors, the folks like Lambert who are a little more sarcastic than sentimental, but still can find the meaning of the season through all the tinsel. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Seth is not sentimental about his latest creation: Sprott is a monster of selfishness, fat and vain and lacking in self-awareness. George Sprott 2010-06-19T23:22:00Z

He’s downright sentimental when Dismas tells Magda about his dead wife and when they cuddle in various makeshift quarters while awaiting the next day’s horrors. Christopher Buckley may not have given up political satire after all 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The film's appeal may be its mix of raucous family comedy and sentimental father/son melodrama. Why dramedy "Dad I'm Sorry" speaks to Vietnamese offspring: "They don't dare talk to their parents" 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But while it's undeniably sentimental to the point of mawkishness, much of the joy of pretty good movies has to do with what the viewer brings to them. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z

Anne Tyler’s novels tend to walk a narrow line between the moving and the sentimental, the sympathetic and the maudlin, the evocative and the banal. Anne Tyler’s 20th Novel, ‘A Spool of Blue Thread’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fray was again muscular when appropriate, but he was captivating in those melting moments, sweet but not at all sentimental. Review: Schubert, via David Fray, at the Park Avenue Armory 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

“Initially, Fauset’s work was dismissed as sentimental and Victorian, primarily because she dealt with ‘women’s issues,’ centering on the marriage plot,” Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, said. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Their story could be simplified into a sentimental tale of colorblind brotherhood. ‘Devotion’ Review: An Airman in Reflection 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

"I don't think positive entertainment needs to be treacly or sentimental or syrupy or wishy-washy; I think it can just be freaking awesome." For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ford makes out to Bernard like the whole thing is just a sentimental trip, a reminder of his upbringing and the heady early days of the park. Westworld recap: episode six – Maeve and Felix sitting in a tree, E.D.I.T.I.N.G 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

“How can you describe these physical sensations, these instinctive body-wide manifestations of your mental state, without sounding like some sentimental fool?” ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t exactly consider myself a soft touch when it comes to sentimental stories set during the Christmas season. Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Story, the Musical,’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater 2012-11-20T03:00:10Z

Toward the end of a festival I always get a little sentimental — chalk it up to lack of sleep or a surfeit of stories vying for space in my addled brain. This Year, the Berlin Film Festival Sparkles 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The score, too, came in for scorn from the Parisian critics, who pooh-poohed its evocation of Tchaikovsky as sentimental and uninspired. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Paxton arrives with his crew — experts on antiques, pop culture, fashion and military memorabilia — and helps homeowners identify sentimental items as they declutter and pack. How downsizing expert Matt Paxton helps Americans sort through their stuff 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

That she somehow manages to rattle her ruthless interrogator — and contrive a sentimental out for Reem — takes the sting out of the film’s critique. ‘Huda’s Salon’ Review: The Services Are Not What You’d Expect. 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Instead, “Genius” sighs with palpable nostalgia for a supposed golden age of masculine artistic potency and paints the struggle for self-expression in familiar sentimental colors. Review: ‘Genius’ Puts Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe in a Literary Bromance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Like many Americans, Mr. Lauren’s relationship to cars is sentimental and began in childhood. Ralph Lauren Is Still Behind the Wheel 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

At every point, fear of appearing sentimental or glib or naive, rather than a range of corresponding positive ambitions, determines her approach. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z

The black residents are not sentimental liberal caricatures but complicated and flawed human beings, a consistent thread in Simon’s writing. Show Me a Hero: is the HBO mini-series David Simon's return to form? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

He didn't want it to get stuck or feel sentimental. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

Moving, amusing and truthful, the film is a modest, not unduly sentimental work that touches in a light but far from slight way on subjects that will eventually be faced by all of us. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z

As a practical document of a sentimental education in showbiz, it hasn’t been bettered, particularly in its account of the creation of the play that made Hart famous, the 1930 comedy “Once in a Lifetime.” Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z

It definitely sets a tone and creates a sentimental feeling. A minute with: Chris Pratt on going from slob to film heartthrob 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The self-described "Painter of Light," who died Friday at age 54, produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes in dewy morning light that were beloved by many but criticized by the art establishment. Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. 2012-04-07T17:46:03Z

That was a sentimental loss, but the new digs are appropriate for digital-first journalism and very attractive, to boot. Perspective | Is time running out for ambitious political journalism at the Des Moines Register? Not yet. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

And in none of these films do the positive elements feel forced or sentimental. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z

It's not a bad film, though finally much more sentimental and lenient than the audience might expect from its shocking opening. Cannes film festival 2010: a triumph of politics over art 2010-05-24T13:13:00Z

A sacred object or sentimental curio should not be absorbed into an industry enamored with surface image, engaged in consumerism and focused on extravagance. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

By that point it feels rushed and not quite earned, not to mention a little too nakedly sentimental. Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Makes for a Morose Neil Diamond Musical 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

I suppose some might find this piece small or sentimental, although this is a sentimental town of neighborhoods and Parish makes some sudden surprising turns toward the big and dark. 'Twist': Surprising new play about Chicago Rahm Emanuel must see 2011-02-25T17:52:50Z

The new work, which led to a split with her dealer in 1976, was sometimes dismissed as sentimental, a critique she rebutted enthusiastically. Miriam Schapiro, 91, a Feminist Artist Who Harnessed Craft and Pattern, Dies 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The movie can shift unevenly from effusive love letter to travel lust to sentimental moment, but that doesn’t break the fantasy. Review: Love of Il Maestro Drives ‘In Search of Fellini’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

When the action slows, you realize what a limited and sentimental novelist she too often is. Dangerously Deep Sleep Is Contagious in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It was cool to see how people used sentimental items to bring meaning to their homes,” Sherry said, citing a woman who hung her young son’s paintings in the breakfast nook of a high-end home. After a year out of the spotlight, a new kind of ‘Young House Love’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

By the time the Oscar was awarded, Wayne was being described as a “sentimental favorite.” Coen Brothers Saddle Up a Revenge Story (or Two) 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z

Some were soulfully sentimental, like superb ravioli filled with Tolosa bean purée, served in cabbage broth — a memory of the chef’s mother’s cooking. Restaurant Report: Dstage in Madrid 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The tightly wound Arabella is an enthusiastic partyer and consumer of party drugs, facts that the show presents as pertinent to her story but not as reasons for judgment or sentimental regret. Review: Michaela Coel Is Riveting in ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Before his death, the 54-year-old Kinkade produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes that he sold in a nationwide chain of galleries. Coroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Kinkade 2012-05-08T02:39:08Z

If the parting of Strauss’s thunderstorm was “mellifluous,” he admitted, it was still “sentimental in the most bourgeois vein,” music “from which one would have expected Mr. Mitropoulos long since to have graduated.” A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

I think there was a tendency through those years for that sentimental narrative or sentimental vision of Ireland to become an exportable commodity. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The musical, though, is an ungainly beast, by turns zany and sentimental. Review: Billy Crystal Carries the Tune in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

In the final scenes, almost every character seems to be experiencing passionate intellectual epiphanies every minute, and there's a whole fusillade of near-endings before sweeping orchestral music crowns a sentimental ending-ending. Arcadia ? review 2011-04-13T12:04:36Z

Flavorful song choices aside, the music score likewise veers toward the sentimental. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z

But then, for sentimental reasons, songs by Sondheim, the Pet Shop Boys, and Björk also turn me into a blubbering wreck. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

The track centers an album unafraid of embracing the sentimental goo that makes some ‘70s and ‘80s music so off-putting to subsequent generations. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

O’Casey wrote “Plough” a decade after the 1916 Easter Rising that triggered Irish independence, yet it was anything but a sentimental heroic account. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

But its methods are almost defiantly literal, engineered for accessibility and sentimental impact. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The movie, Abele says, "is ultimately too schematically sentimental … to have much of an impact." 'The Identical' is a pale imitation of Elvis' story, reviews say 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Genial and sentimental, the series endeared Mr. Haggerty to viewers and made him the winner of a People’s Choice Award in 1978 as the most popular actor in a new series. Dan Haggerty, Who Played Grizzly Adams, Dies at 73 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

So far the retrograde and sentimental forces of nationalism have stood in the way, but how long will that last? Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

“He is sentimental and strong, like a lion and a kitten.” Jim Bailey, cabaret entertainer who impersonated Garland, Streisand, dies 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

But I am not sentimental enough to believe that where you see movies necessarily matters. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z

Part of the agenda of the sentimental Christmas movie is to inspire characters and audience to lead better lives. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

That could be a sentimental theme — there are shelves of novels celebrating bookstores — but Erdrich complicates that warm feeling. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Such morality melds with and blurs the sentimental streak of this play, which has a tight structure and exactly echoing imagery that Ibsen might appreciate. In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’s the World’s End, and the Party’s Here 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

The samplers, with sentimental mottoes, are familiar fare at museums and galleries, but the girls’ floor coverings have scarcely been studied. Antiques: Repaired China, the Potter John Bennett, Schoolgirl Rugs 2013-01-17T22:21:55Z

It’s the last line that is the problem, for it reveals the novel’s true intentions, which are sentimental at the core. Chris Cleave’s ‘Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,’ about love and redemption in WWII 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

As it was at its debut at Jacob’s Pillow last summer, his “Axe” is sentimental and foolish, depicting a man who splits wood and a woman distraught that he isn’t paying more attention to her. Review: Martha Graham Dance Celebrates 90 Years 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

So there is no joy in reporting that his new novel is an outrageously sentimental misfire. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, she and the others keep yelling and spinning their wheels as Zeitlin — who proves more sentimental about childhood than Barrie — keeps the parts whirring, casting about for meaning that never fully comes. ‘Wendy’ Review: Where Playtime Goes On … and On 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Of the 48 Ryan Murphy series currently on the air or in production right now, nothing else quite so deeply reflects its creator’s dark, sentimental heart. "Pose" and the home of the brave 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

While he can afford to be sentimental about domesticity and chivalrous toward the women in his life, she has no use for such softness. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Could such a movie be anything but sentimental claptrap, a prettified picture of a long-gone era when kings behaved like kings and commoners knew their place, shamelessly crafted to lure Oscar voters? "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z

But she is equally fine in her more sentimental moments, as when she is being interviewed by a young reporter and waxes eloquent about her vinyl collection. Best women: The 10 best actresses of 2016 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

She goes on explain, “This is my memory play. It is brightly lit, it is sentimental, it is not at all realistic.” Review: In ‘Eddie and Dave,’ Van Halen Gets a Makeover 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

But in mass-experience environments, like network TV and general elections, basic and sentimental and middle-of-the-road still get you a big following. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

This is an amiable, but essentially sentimental and predictable satire about an ordinary guy from Naples who becomes obsessed with getting on to the Italian version of Big Brother and becoming a big star. Cannes 2012 roundup: why the jury's Amour for Haneke was an anti-climax 2012-05-28T10:01:04Z

The show’s trip into the past doesn’t feel much like a sentimental journey. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s good to report that this performance made a much better case for the light, sketchy, sometimes sentimental work than when it was last seen in 2008. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z

And since my brother is the most sensitive and sentimental person in my family, I didn't see how I could use details from his life without hurting him and jeopardising our good relations. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z

Mr. Sembène flashes back to the lively, dusty streets of Dakar, but he was never one to promote an idealized or sentimental picture of Senegal, or to refrain from criticizing its postcolonial governments. Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Black Girl’ Turns 50 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Carion's version of events is sentimental and not entirely plausible – it seems the Germans had a famous opera singer serving as a lowly private in their ranks – but nevertheless poignant. TV highlights 20/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:01:02Z

Brown said the vendor, who is in his 60s, believes his parents bought the painting some time before World War II, when Victorian art was often dismissed as garish and sentimental. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

Nobody is advantaged by a procession of heartwarming sentimental comedies telling audiences exactly what they want to hear about themselves. Vernacular spectacular: why theatre speaks louder with regional accents 2010-10-06T14:08:00Z

And though style and tone varied from slapstick to sentimental, one character turned up again and again: his adopted hometown, Chicago. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

“The Long Christmas Dinner,” a comedy dappled with dolor, mostly comes off well until the director substitutes a sentimental ending for Wilder’s sad one, but “Pullman Car Hiawatha” is excruciatingly jollied up. Theater Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

To publish as a woman was to be categorized as trivial, sentimental, concerned with life’s petty surface questions rather than its deep truths. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Some of their stories are told in “Fly,” a sentimental though captivating play at the New Victory Theater, from Pasadena Playhouse and the Crossroads Theater Company. Review: In ‘Fly,’ Tuskegee Airmen Are Deployed to Defend Freedoms They Don’t Fully Share 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

It’s cliché and it’s sentimental but it’s true: parents, when your child asks, “Will you play with me?” Chris Ware’s “Looking Up” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

“This isn’t sentimental or hokey: It’s the fact of the matter of the American experience. I’m not saying, ‘Relax, everything will be fine.’ Think Things Look Bad in This Country Right Now? We’ve Been Here Before, Jon Meacham Says 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The new animation 3-D pop from DreamWorks is breezy, sentimental and quirky. Quirky 'Home,' with Jim Parsons and Rihanna, keeps it too light 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

If lately you’ve been shuffling through too many novels that feel a little unambitious, vaguely sentimental, even adolescent, “No. 4 Imperial Lane” could give your summer reading some real depth. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The less charitable describe him as “twee,” meaning quaintly sentimental. The voice of Winnie the Pooh is something of a teddy bear himself (with claws) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

I’m very sentimental about coming to celebrate her at Carnegie Hall, as the first time I played there, it was to play her piece “All Fours for the Drum Bum.” Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Little is sentimental or sugarcoated; Ms. Lipitz is interested in nuance. In ‘Step,’ Finding a Language for Hopes, Fears and Dreams 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

It is hard to believe that any generation has been as preoccupied with immediacy and the latest technology while simultaneously being so sentimental about their childhoods as mine, but perhaps that's just me being sentimental. The cassette Walkman has gone, and I must move on 2010-10-26T18:02:00Z

But he also wrote some gloriously sentimental tunes about how “love is all you need,” and later, once he left the Beatles, allowed himself to get positively mushy about his newfound domesticity. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z

This blurriness of character never clears, making “Ride or Die” a frustrating experience as much as a sentimental one. ‘Ride or Die’ Review: Killing for Love 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

What a wonder it is to see this newspaper wax sentimental about the circus while advocating for the aggrandizement of the transgender pair-bond over its "old" heterosexual founders. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

In point of fact, I communed with it even more meaningfully this time, and not merely because of the stagecraft or the sentimental pull of a theater world striving to be whole again. Review | ‘Six’ is the pulse-quickening pleasure trove that Broadway has been waiting for 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

The men of Rich Bar mining camp are a testosterone collective — whooping it up, gambling away fortunes, shooting at one another at the slightest provocation and just as readily turning sentimental. Where to look for treasure in California's new gold rush? Try John Adams' new opera 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

The rest of the show is a sentimental speculation on what might have happened had he stayed a little longer. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z

Its grimness is taken as a sign of serious intent, even as its sentimental turn offers that all-important measure of hope. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Your affection for “Aubergine” may fundamentally come down to how sentimental you are about food, which is discussed and represented as an expression of love, to be embraced or rejected. Review: ‘Aubergine,’ a Stew of Regret and Impending Loss 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Chaplin’s film is a masterpiece, or something close to it — prescient, daring and almost unbearably tragic, an optimistic and sentimental plea for reason in a world teetering on the edge of the abyss. ?Battleship?: Dumbest military spectacle ever? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

Allen is unashamedly sentimental about that pre-TV era, when broadcast radio was considered a powerful shared experience and families would huddle around a speaker instead of a screen. Is Black Music; Downtown Soulville: a week in radio 2013-01-17T17:00:01Z

Everyone feels possessive and sentimental about the houses they occupy, even summer rentals. ‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Pfeifer, who was hurt by an IED explosion while on patrol in Iraq in 2007, is the sentimental favorite of the large galleries at the 25th anniversary event. Roenick leads American Century Championship 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

At the risk of sounding lamentably sentimental, how vulnerable yet luminous we all seem. TV highlights 11/06/2012 2012-06-10T19:00:01Z

While this will come as heartwarming news for sentimental viewers, it’s sure to leave one unsuspecting fiancé out in the cold. ‘The Noel Diary’ Review: Revelations on a Cold Winter’s Night 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

He was not sentimental or emotional about his loss. Comparing Stage Notes on Laurents 2011-05-10T22:35:23Z

She has just that youthful verve that the movies will need when they start talking, and sassy-mouthed comedies replace some of the sentimental melodramas of the silent era. The Artist: A 'Silent' Film to Sing About 2011-11-22T15:30:45Z

Because, in most films, drifters like Ryan end up settling down or, if not, breaking hearts, you anticipate a cheap, sentimental ending. Review: In ‘Jackie & Ryan,’ a Handsome Drifter Guides the Way 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The last time she had accompanied her mother to Seoul was soon after the diagnosis, a sentimental trip on which Chongmi’s health rapidly deteriorated. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Even when we cried and even when it felt sentimental, everything just felt really light.” The Dress Code was ‘Fly and Gay’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The film version, however, is much like them: thin, superficial and sentimental. One Day ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:52Z

The movie barely touches on that question except for its unsatisfying, sentimental conclusion that his con artistry was an appeal for love. | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z

Make sure the watch has no monetary terms or sentimental value! Antiques: Penitentiary Restores Prisoner?s Biblical Murals 2011-07-22T05:15:25Z

In the final episodes of “Lady Dynamite,” as Bamford gets some of the love she seeks, the show veers very slightly toward the sentimental. Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

David Stubbs In a series that balances sentimental moments with scenes that make you ponder man's inhumanity to mutt, Paul O'Grady again witnesses life at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. TV highlights – 09/05/2013 2013-05-09T05:59:01Z

The men sound gruff and sentimental, smooth operators in white jackets and red shirts. The Thrill of It All ? review 2010-10-27T20:29:00Z

“Even when they all watched La La Land, even then they didn’t agree. Ted Cruz and Chuck Schumer – they both loved it. But Bernie was like ‘it’s sentimental garbage, jazz doesn’t belong to white people’.” Late night hosts on the evolution of Trump: 'Dickish to dictatorish' 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Well, I am sentimental, I know it, and perhaps I do glamorize the memory. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z

“Beijing Flickers” often feels as if it were about to tip over into the too harsh or the too sentimental. Movie Review: ‘Beijing Flickers’ Directed by Zhang Yuan 2013-01-09T23:58:06Z

His Christmas Tree-O, which released a scrappy and endearing album on Palmetto two years ago, does more or less what you’d expect, batting around holiday standards with a mischievous but sentimental air. Music Review: Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O at Jazz Standard 2012-12-20T23:14:20Z

Wistful but never sentimental, it quietly turns the fortunes of one little store into a comment on the fate of many. Review: In ‘The Bookshop,’ Seeking Calm, Finding Conflict 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

This modest, quiet story — based on a magazine article published more than 20 years ago — could easily have turned into something preachy, sentimental and overstated. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ma writes about the darker side of Chinese adoption, her social commentary less jaunty and sentimental than Dickens, more like Dreiser in its harsh realism. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Online shopping also makes it possible to limit direct exposure to rosy sentimental displays in drugstores or to avoid looking at certain aisles while shopping for groceries. Little landmines: What to watch (out for) on Mother’s Day when you’re grieving 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

The gallery of hard-bitten personages and the mix of funny and sentimental subplots put you in mind at times of a novel by Dickens. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

If Llosa had written this as a "sentimental" novelist not a "naive" one, how much less enjoyable it might have turned out to be. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

As a rule, she’s surest in roles by other choreographers; Balanchine’s classicism makes her look sentimental, as if she’s telling us how much she loves this choreography rather than showing us why it’s lovely. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Emerson Quartet offered an ideally balanced interpretation: somber and mournful, more dignified than sentimental. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-08-14T22:06:47Z

Saturated with sampled timbres and driven by sputtering hip-hop break beats, Mr. Marks’s music is bright and sentimental, at times even cloying in a manner meant to evoke anodyne commercial Christian pop. Music Review: Boy Meets Girl in Matt Marks?s ?Little Death, Vol. 1? 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z

Today, Farjeon tends to be viewed as old-fashioned, “poetic,” even sentimental. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s a combination of the sentimental — of the personal stories — and the collective narrative of this heroic group of men.” ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

There is the sentimental value and the actual or replacement cost value to wedding and engagement rings. Field Notes: Without This Ring: Losing a Wedding Band 2011-08-05T23:15:53Z

Her motivation was simple: Encourage emerging artists to continue their craft while showing customers original art can be affordable and more sentimental than a print from HomeGoods. Original art, cheap price tags in Wilmington 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Seldom hazy or sentimental, O’Hara believed in emotional truth as much as in factual accuracy. The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Jazz musicians have notoriously looked down their noses at country music as simplistic and sentimental, but even Charlie Parker was attracted to its down-to-earth storytelling. Diane Schuur plays country music ? at Jazz Alley 2011-06-29T21:05:11Z

This being a Broadway musical, “Beetlejuice” has been given a freshly broadened sentimental streak. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

His hits for the Commodores could be sentimental, even saccharine, but were also sneakily genre-defying. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

So, I'm much less sentimental about newspapers than most of the people I know, but "Spotlight" really hit me hard. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

The dinners are followed by overly sentimental speeches. Social Q’s: Live and Love for Today 2014-04-17T20:01:03Z

In my experience, teenagers may be a bit young to understand the sentimental value of family heirlooms. Should I Pay My Sister-in-Law for Helping With Child Care? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Molly's piano-backed songs are brief, some just over a minute in length, and are influenced by the popular music of the day, from show tunes to sentimental ballads. Molly Drake: Molly Drake – review 2013-01-17T22:30:01Z

Though her poems and essays centered on the New England countryside, she trafficked in none of the sentimental effusions of traditional pastoral poets. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z

Think there's going to be a long, sentimental tribute to these brilliant performers? 2010-02-01T13:03:00Z

It was a night for nostalgia, but there was nothing thin or sentimental about it. Ian Hunter's diary of Mott the Hoople 2010-06-25T22:59:00Z

There was a streak of playfulness in emo, but it was the genre’s spectacular sentimental indulgence that really got people on board. The Rise of Emo Nostalgia 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The effect is devastating because of its directness, but Dutilleux's music is never mawkishly sentimental. A guide to Henri Dutilleux's music 2013-01-21T16:19:00Z

Costello: I wasn’t being funny or being in any way sentimental. When Paul McCartney teamed up with Elvis Costello, the Beatle got back on track 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The brutality with which he obtains it, then casually slings it away on discovering it to be sour, is sufficient to shatter any sentimental illusions about childhood within the first two minutes. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z

It was unusually sentimental for a comedy podcast, but that these old friends got to share this final moment of connection is no small thing. Louie Anderson and the Compassion of America’s Eternal Kid 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Relationships between characters are often cloyingly sentimental and one-dimensional, reflecting plot lore rather than fleshing out extended emotional sketches. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Gerwig, in particular, one of the most imaginative actors of the time, a virtual reinventor of the art of acting, here seems constrained by the movie’s sentimental moods. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

It certainly seems possible—after all, that man’s weepy confession in group therapy sounded uncannily like a Don Draper pitch, complete with a domestic setting and a sentimental message. 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke' and the end of Mad Men 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

His showman’s optimism is bolstered by a sober, even sentimental, belief in redemption. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

We live and so we think with and through other people's experiences, just as others live with and through our writing as an existential, sentimental, political, metaphysical experience. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

It definitely feels like a nice homecoming and it wasn’t chosen for any political reason as much as it was a sentimental and logistical one. Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard dishes on this week’s Showbox run and long history with the embattled club 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

She passed it down to her children, a treasured heirloom with great sentimental value. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

This enthusiasm leads to what one might perhaps describe as a sentimental strain in Manguel's writing, though it might also accurately be described as morality, the imaginative extension of oneself and one's sympathies to others. A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z

What had at first appeared to be level-headed appraisal now seemed like nauseatingly sentimental propaganda. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

His genial performance lacks the austerity that made “Curious Incident” challenging for theatergoers who expect characters to mirror their own sentimental processing of the play’s experience. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

There’s also a surprisingly sentimental, we’re-all-in-this-together ending, which doesn’t necessarily bode well. | 'Bob?s Burgers': This Family Restaurant Is All About the People 2011-01-06T22:55:57Z

There’s a moving scene in the season finale of the Roseanne revival where Dan is desperately trying to save sentimental items from his rapidly flooding basement. Cold comfort: how the Roseanne revival portrayed a bleak America 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

While the young Goethe was handsome, charismatic, sentimental and callous, the older Sage of Weimar all too often resembles a statue of himself: Even Safranski speaks of his being “encased in political frost.” A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The song was angry and sentimental at the same time. Sasquatch! 2010 day two notables: Luke Burbank, The xx, Pavement 2010-05-31T19:31:00Z

A melancholy hangs over “These Halcyon Days,” which slips now and again into the sentimental. Theater Review: ‘These Halcyon Days,’ at the Irish Arts Center 2013-05-14T21:18:54Z

Complete with a ludicrous premise, Boston-centric sports gags, random washed-up celebrity cameos, spoofs of several different kinds of more serious movies, an irrelevant third-act action sequence and a sentimental resolution? Pick of the week: Mark Wahlberg and his foulmouthed teddy bear 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

Imputing human feelings and intentions to cats might seem sentimental or silly. The Storybook Pleasures of Beth Stern’s Cat Foster Home 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

In these late passages Ms. Wiest is at her finest and least sentimental, as Winnie still attempts to distract herself from doom. Review: ‘Happy Days,’ an Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Most baseball movies are about dreams; “Calvin Marshall” is a sentimental comedy about self-delusion, and the young actor Alex Frost can’t find a way to make sense of Calvin, or to make him sympathetic. | 'Calvin Marshall': Covering the Bases 2010-08-20T00:40:00Z

So You Think You Can Dance conveniently offers the audience the sentimental opportunity to engage with social issues through feelings, right from the comfort of their couch. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

Related: A Christmas Carol review – Jim Broadbent's sentimental Scrooge has a twinkle in his eye In its evocation of a benevolent supernatural realm, Scrooge was in good company. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

But one of Mr. Eastwood’s great and undersung strengths as a director is his ability to wade into swamps of sentimental hokum and come out perfectly dry. | 'Hereafter': The Dead Have Messages for the Land of the Living 2010-10-14T21:49:00Z

Chockablock with romantic melodies, it follows the sentimental education of the flyboy Ace. Review: ‘Sayonara’ Reimagines a Story of Cross-Cultural Love 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Kim kicked off the season on Aug. 21 with Puccini’s “Tosca,” a warhorse that is a sentimental favorite for the company. New faces, new ambitions as opera houses reopen 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

This sentimental survey of the Queen’s relationships with nearly a dozen prime ministers deals only in the most glancing way with politics, or questions about the relevance of a monarchy in a modern democracy. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s not a bad idea,” he said, “but the writing tends toward the bland and sentimental.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

She’s also learned: “Parents cry a lot over sentimental or nostalgic things. Kids don’t have the capacity for nostalgia yet.” From ‘Game of Thrones’ to a Subaru ad, here’s what makes Washington Post readers cry 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

No sentimental view of prison life is offered either, although the artist seems aware of that danger. '@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz' a powerful meditation on repression 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Now he was filming a sentimental mirage for a pharmaceutical company. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

His keen sense of what’s lost or missing, even in a happy new relationship, allows “Find Me” to dodge, at least in part, the sentimental imperative that mars many sequels. Review | In “Find Me,” André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name” sequel, returning home is bittersweet 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Instead of emphasizing sentimental notes suggesting that Monty’s scars are slowly but surely healing over, “After.” leaves behind the haunting impression that part of his soul will be damaged for the rest of his life. | 'After.' : In ?After.? by Chad Bekim, an Ex-Con Returns - Review 2011-09-22T02:01:10Z

It was always something sweet and sentimental and dear to us. ArtsBeat: Anjelica Huston Performs 'September Song' in Her 'Smash' Singing Debut 2012-05-03T13:00:52Z

“The return to the native land has been so / sentimental, and so mental, and so divine / that even the crystalline dawn drops are / in the jasmine of dream, of fragrance and song,” he wrote. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Christmas, though, is a time to be sentimental. Tom Ewing 2010-12-23T22:14:01Z

Perhaps because the emergency medicine they practice is so speedy and brutal, the surgeons are tenderhearted and sentimental, as quick to tear up as they are to tear out a kidney. Television Review | 'Miami Medical': The Bruckheimer Formula in a Hospital 2010-04-01T22:33:00Z

The sentimental novel went through 16 printings in Germany, selling nearly 300,000 copies. Germany’s strange nostalgia for the antebellum American South 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

But I’ve been covering show business in this dynamic city too long to get too sentimental. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

I’m sure I’m being sentimental, but Britain felt like a different country when I woke there on Friday morning. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

This is Scorsese’s least sentimental picture of mob life, and for that reason his most poignant. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

But, yes, I guess you could say it is a memento mori, though it would never occur to me to use that term, since it might sound a little bit sentimental. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z

At least in the early going, the current season avoids the sentimental speechifying about truth and justice that became increasingly prevalent in Season 1. Television Review: ‘The Hour,’ With Dominic West, on BBC America 2012-11-27T23:57:23Z

Most of the left-behinds don't come close to being worth much of anything beyond sentimental value. Collector of dead's possessions could be TV star 2010-10-16T02:13:00Z

When describing the farming communities of South India, Mr. Murugan is neither sentimental nor harsh; he describes it the way an entomologist might describe an insect. ‘A Censor Is Seated Inside Me Now’: Hometown Wrath Tests a Novelist 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

We may be sentimental, remembering long-gone school days or how excited we used to be as children, knowing Halloween and Thanksgiving were round the corner. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

The cold open compresses a lot of what happens in the show into a few minutes: Light comedy, sentimental nostalgia, statements about the meaning of it all, and some good music. Cameron Crowe’s “Roadies”: A rock ‘n’ roll labor of love that dares to be sentimental 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Yet this material is vital reading for anyone who wants a personal account of this writer’s sentimental education. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Every time we play up there, there’s definitely a more sentimental feeling than, say, Kansas City or even Washington D.C., where I’m from. Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters horror movie ‘Studio 666,’ emotional weight of Seattle returns 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

She resented the "sentimental" testimonials her friends and relatives recited at her bedside; she thought they were delivering a death sentence. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z

Which is why my library is what I call a “sentimental library.” The Virtues of Shelf-lessness 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

It was, said Mr. Owens in a preview conversation, a little sentimental for him. The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Photograph: PA/Natural History Museum The growing sense that books may be about to become redundant is producing a good deal of sentimental chatter on – where else? – the internet. The precious unprinted contents of books 2010-08-13T12:14:00Z

For him, as he writes in a program note, this is far from a wistful, sentimental work — rather a “Sehnsuchtsstück,” a “yearning piece,” as Arabella searches for Mr. Right. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

For every “Hoop Dreams” or “When We Were Kings” there are dozens of films whose primary goals are commercial, promotional, jingoistic or tritely celebratory and sentimental. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Summer Dreams’ on CBS; ‘Requiem for the Big East’ on ESPN 2014-03-14T22:01:18Z

But within its gritty setting, and forceful opposition to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's union-busting policies, is the sentimental archetype of a young boy's triumph against tough odds. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z

Before the sentimental funk classic, “I Wish,” he said he needed to sip a beverage to soothe his vocal cords, then spent a couple minutes gargling and making slurping noises into the microphone. Review | Even a sad Stevie Wonder concert is one of the happiest ways to spend an evening 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

It is packed with so many heroic artisans and sentimental peasants that it feels like a dinner theater production of “Fiddler on the Roof” or a canvas by Thomas Kinkade, the “painter of light.” Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z

And the way the show involves the audience adds a cheap if effective sentimental touch. | 'The Method Gun': Stell-aaa! Where Are You? And Where?s Your Sister? 2011-03-06T23:11:03Z

“Like a Coat from the Cold” is a love ballad full of gorgeous sentiment that stops short of being sentimental, something Clark almost always managed to pull off. Postscript: Guy Clark, 1941-2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

From that second on, I realized it was all a sham, that he was actually shy, funny, sentimental, a joy to be with.” Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Unexpectedly wise, Baby Cakes is actually a sentimental figure, but amid all the obscenity and meanness of this show, that comes as a relief. Critic?s Notebook: In ?China, IL? on Cartoon Network, Authority Figures Go Wild 2012-02-18T01:27:28Z

In the den it’s ornaments old and/or sentimental. Here’s how professional decorators dress their home for the holidays 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Hollywood movies are too corny and cheaply sentimental? Perspective | D.A. Pennebaker revolutionized film while living in a New York that revolutionized culture 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a time-machine dream of a not-so-distant past, a sweet and honestly sentimental story that also represents a collaboration between the greatest of Japanese animators and his up-and-coming son. ‘From Up on Poppy Hill’: a gorgeous, sentimental ride from the Miyazakis 2013-03-28T21:44:39Z

To get sentimental about it, the show reminds us of why we love L.A. Diavolo's 'L'Espace du Temps' resonates in its metaphysical convergence 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

And so we settle on “homage,” the all-purpose word that made it safe for filmmakers and TV creators to build new stories from the sentimental scraps of stuff that came before. Review | It’s the era of the homage and the satisfying ‘Stranger Things’ is the prototype 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Hanks is the sentimental choice to win, but he faces a tough contender in Tracy Letts who's been nominated for his performance as George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 2013 Tony awards: Broadway kicks off its Kinky Boots and celebrates the show 2013-06-08T20:06:12Z

No one strikes a falsely sentimental note, and Mr. Caras, seen only in the first scene and in another depicting one of Larry’s anguished dreams, is equally fine. | 'The Dream of the Burning Boy': Flying Above Emotions, Then Grounded by Trauma 2011-03-24T02:30:27Z

It was a role that showed off Williams’s talents – the zaniness, the dressing up, the bizarrely transparent absurdity, combined with his big-hearted, faintly lachrymose vulnerability and sentimental concern for children. Robin Williams remembered: "What a remarkable performer. This is a brutal shock" 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The students erupted into choruses of “eews” whenever the older actors got physical with each other, but they also said “aww” a lot at less touchy-feely sentimental moments. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z

Mycroft, who travels across the globe at the behest of his friend, is more sentimental than his analytical sibling. Review: Holmes Is Where the Heart Is 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But “Sleep Walk” was also taken up by the Chicano low-rider scene that began in Southern California in the sixties, a subculture that revolved around souped-up cars blasting sentimental soul ballads. The Extreme Highs and Lows of Cuco’s Début Album, “Para Mí” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

He claims it’s just the name, with the suddenly sentimental Reacher wondering what kind of woman earned it that moniker. Review: In ‘Make Me’ Lee Child Adds Another Layer to Jack Reacher 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Roberts doesn’t seem to be in a sentimental mood in this opaque work that could have been an interlude on Turner Classic Movies’ “Noir Alley.” Review: At Ailey, Love Is a Battlefield, Film Noir Style 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

If that sounds soft or sentimental, fear not. Review: In ‘Good’ and ‘No End of Blame,’ Politics and Prickly Debate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

Portions of four films projected in a small gallery provide a quick immersion in the rapid progress of Russian cinema from sentimental narrative to radical innovation to propaganda. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

He rejected the sentimental fancy that someone’s eyes might be a window onto their soul. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

And as much as I enjoy it all, I get sentimental and sad, missing those who are no longer here. In my family, celebrations call for these sweet, spicy "party pecans" and cheese wafers 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Diana paused, looking at the pile of papers, the cards celebrating anniversaries, the photos from their travels abroad and the sentimental notes. Modern Love: Death Bear Will See You Now 2010-03-05T20:25:00Z

It develops its drama on an international scale and inscribes it on the world-striding map of industrial politics of a historic scope, while remaining family-friendly and sentimental about domestic life. The Airbrushed Racing History of “Ford v Ferrari” 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It made her glad she had surrounded herself with so many interesting and sentimental objects. Cottagecore, cluttercore, goblincore — deep down, it’s about who we think we are 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

I’m not surprised it won a sentimental Academy Award. I've never seen … Rocky 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Even the presence of one of America's most beloved and distinctive screen actors, revisiting a role he played half a lifetime ago, is weird and complicated instead of just fun and sentimental and alluring. "TRON: Legacy:" A $170 million insult 2010-12-16T00:11:00Z

"But he is really sentimental about his family and looking forward to what's ahead." Bruce Jenner interview: What to know before you watch 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The sentimental hokum is the best thing about the picture: The violence may be abundant, but it’s not particularly gratifying, and the repetitive plot mechanics don’t help. Review: Ryan Reynolds Smirks Out Loud in 'Deadpool' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

“The scope of this ‘Guernica’ project got a lot broader after looking more closely at this huge sentimental conflict,” Mr. Saura said in Spanish. Picasso’s Life Inspires Films in Spain 2012-08-18T00:01:38Z

I was surprised because the image for us of country music was something that was extremely sentimental. “What’s my purpose on Earth if I’m not playing solos?”: Guitar hero Richard Thompson says every song absolutely, without question, needs one 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

I’m truly not sentimental about shows, and certainly not about opening nights — because they are usually so pressurized about other things. The Show’s Delayed, but They’re Still Keeping ‘Company’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s an opportunity to inspire curiosity and conversation for guests, but it also functions as a personal tribute to your own sentimental history and narrative,” she says. Tools and accessories for a well-outfitted fireplace 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

I had encountered men over the previous two-and-a-half years who treated it as either a precious, sentimental anomaly or as a personal conquest that would amplify their masculinity, but he was not among them. Advice from an accidental virgin: how to survive freshman year debauchery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of play in which a genuine Chanel suit and a new plum shirt are big deals, just like the sentimental old songs and goofy sisterly rituals. Wasserstein’s “Sisters Rosensweig” coasts on comedy at Theater J 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

The crossbreeding of space-exploration formulas and talking-animal humor is consistently smart and deft — just snarky enough, just silly enough and just sentimental enough. Here Are Three Netflix Cartoons You Should Be Watching 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

But Sontag’s sentimental and sexual education took some unusual turns, even as her intellectual maturity proceeded at a breathtaking pace. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z

The other features the overly lush, often sentimental photographs — of tulips, lemons, trees, neo-Classical sculpture, his homes and studios — that he took throughout his career, but mostly after 1990. Art in Review: Cy Twombly: ‘The Last Paintings’ ‘A Survey of Photographs 1954-2011’ 2012-11-08T22:37:10Z

It's also, according to Mulligan, "really nostalgic and warm and sentimental in all the right ways, like a really great '90s rom-com." From Harvey Weinstein to the new #MeToo movies, true justice still remains in the realm of fantasy 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was a cut above most others I have seen, mostly because it wasn't trying to sell some distorted, sentimental vision of a British and Olympic ideal. TV review: Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing; Knockout Scousers: True Stories; Line of Duty 2012-07-17T23:45:01Z

We’re all sentimental about people embarking on a new life together. Before the bridal thong 2014-04-20T00:00:00Z

Gilmour released a 2006 solo album, “On an Island,” that featured lyrics by Samson, a novelist and short story writer; the Los Angeles Times’ review  described it as “a sentimental ode to their family life.” New Pink Floyd album based on 1994 sessions may be coming this fall 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Additionally, some fans miss the line for sentimental reasons, while others celebrate a change they feel is long overdue. Taylor Swift made a second, subtler lyric change on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

The sentimental ending, in which the family reharmonise at Thisbe's high-school musical, is quite as emotionally manipulative as any episode of Glee . The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

An early review was for “Spencer’s Mountain,” a sentimental family melodrama starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara. Film Critic Judith Crist Dies at 90 2012-08-07T22:17:28Z

Even his earliest work — frankly emotional but never sentimental — is shot through with that enchantment and also with an acute awareness of mortality shaped by the death of an older brother from cystic fibrosis. Frame: Neil Goldberg Exhibition at Museum of the City of New York 2012-03-02T00:33:51Z

And when he brings his two youngest sons on, in Celtic kits, to dance along to Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller, it's charming rather than sentimental. Rod Stewart – review 2013-06-06T12:06:06Z

But Jobson – who speaks scathingly about the sentimental cocoon of nostalgia – also believes his story has crucial modern parallels. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z

The gags are stale and the sentimental ending feeble. Hall Pass ? review 2011-03-10T15:32:00Z

That was written by David Belasco, who went to become a Broadway colossus who consistently gave the great public the sentimental spectacles they craved. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Both stories have a sentimental streak, but Ms. Gavalda, a best-selling author in her native France, puts them across with charm. Review: New Books by Anna Gavalda, Daniel Sada, George Singleton and Others 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Her tone is whimsical, somewhere between sentimental and wry. The Screening Room: “Mend and Make Do” 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Without being sentimental about it, Mr. Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view. Review: In ‘The Cabaret of Plants,’ Richard Mabey Demonstrates Their Richness 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

We cried along with her, setting her up as this year's sentimental favorite, especially in light of the recent announcement that she too is facing her own battle with cancer. "Dancing with the Stars": The new season kicks off 2010-09-21T12:30:00Z

The film’s ending manages to be deeply affecting without being excessively sentimental or unrealistic. How Pixar's hit Onward was born from childhood bereavement 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a sad commentary that a modern woman’s hope for lasting happiness centers on the sentimental 1950s ideal of a “perfect” baby. Book review: ‘The First Bad Man,’ by Miranda July 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Despite his enchantment with Africa, he characterized most environmental conservation efforts there as too sentimental because they failed to acknowledge the toll of human population growth on the animals and the land. Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the first part of the session, works from the New York school of the 1950s to the 1970s stirred up sentimental emotions in the older generation of Contemporary art fans. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z

And then the whole thing will be redeemed, at least somewhat, in a rising tide of sentimental sweetness that seems simultaneously calculated and heartfelt. "Hall Pass": Suburban dads gone wild! 2011-02-24T23:01:00Z

Obama rescued himself from the vaguely sentimental by anchoring his hope in his own life story, and the multicultural and multicolored character of the United States. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Neither was dogmatic or sentimental about the aesthetics of any particular kind of music. Popcast: ASAP Yams and Kim Fowley, Departed Tastemakers 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

You start to think that its lighting designer, Mark Henderson, is sentimental about caves. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

I know what you're talking about, but I'm too sentimental, I guess. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z

She stages painterly angles for upstate interiors and keeps the mood mellow, allowing her characters to converse without pushing for laughs or sentimental theatrics. ‘Alone Together’ Review: Finding Love in a Pandemic Retreat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The irony in the film is that it’s not too heavy or sentimental. Isabelle Huppert stars as the no-nonsense survivor of Mia Hanson-Løve’s “Things to Come.” In 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

It can be prosaic and sentimental at times, but its steady, no-frills approach keeps you engaged in the increasingly enraging story. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The two new sections are similarly skillful but even more sentimental. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

After her death in October, her son invited family and close friends to select pieces that had a sentimental value, but “it didn’t make a dent.” The eclectic estate of Roberta McCain — John McCain’s mother — went up for auction. So did a piece of Old Washington. 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

I was like, “Share the vodka,” because somebody was waxing a little bit sentimental that I had gotten so big or something like that. Ariel Pink talks pre-release drama, suggests 4AD Records drop Grimes 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

“I really wanted to try do something ceremonial and sentimental to celebrate that,” he told Reuters. Love during lockdown: South African couple hold backyard 'wedding' 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

With each way of talking—sentimental, sensational, aesthetic—we say something different: that we’re kindhearted and empathetic, or passionate and romantic, or sensitive to beauty and the pleasures of art. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The self-described "Painter of Light" produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes beloved by many but derided by some critics. Autopsy set for painter Thomas Kinkade 2012-04-09T18:44:11Z

And, unfortunately, this film tends to follow that format, taking the concept even further by freeze-framing interviewees at emotional moments, which yields a cheap, sentimental effect. Movie Review: ‘Jews of Egypt,’ About the End of a More Tolerant Era 2014-03-28T00:12:54Z

The singer Ryan O’Shaughnessy, representing Ireland, sang a sentimental breakup ballad, “Together,” which featured two male performers dancing and holding hands. China Is Banned From Airing Eurovision After Censoring Performance With Gay Theme 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Before I was told my sons were dying, I would have dismissed these words as no more than sentimental claptrap, but now, I hold them close to my heart. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The Way We Were exemplified Hamlisch's old-fashioned appeal – it was a big, sentimental movie ballad that brought huge success in the rock era. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z

As always, Sharp takes on potentially sentimental subjects with a tone which is almost shockingly unsentimental; never has the trope of a Victorian drawing master romancing his sheltered female pupil been rendered less romantic. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

For one, don’t be put off by its feeble cover, a sentimental photograph of a cute and smiling Middle Eastern girl sitting beside a pile of cut pink flowers. Books of The Times: Culinary Comfort in a Tumultuous Middle East 2011-02-06T18:07:19Z

After rediscovering an old letter, Corina reminisces on the year she left Chicago and her Mexican family behind to chase her dream of becoming a writer in Paris in this sentimental, dual-language story. Newly Published, From a Naked Humans Society to Kyoto Travels 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

There is little point in expecting young children to be sentimental. ‘There will be an afterwards’: how a mother prepared her sons for her death 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Erdrich’s career has been an act of resistance against racism — the hateful and the sentimental varieties — and the implacable force of white America’s ignorance. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Her father, too, was a heavy drinker, "sloppy, sentimental," although "somehow his alcoholism was more benign." Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z

Mr. Chace does his finest work with Mr. Padrón, and together director and actor create a portrayal of a man who, even as he’s stirred to action, seems increasingly burdened by his sentimental education. Review: ‘Sin Alas’ Opens Up a Time Capsule in a Changing Havana 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Ghost: The Musical is a sentimental pop fantasy — following in a worthy tradition of afterlife romances like Heaven Can Wait and Here Comes Mr. Jordan. In Defense of Ghost: The Musical 2012-05-08T10:45:30Z

The couple chose the Cutting Room for sentimental reasons: Mr. Raleigh has been a frequent performer there. They Shared a Cab Ride, Then a Life Together 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

But the foundation show really belongs to Shchukin, and not just as a sentimental tribute to a cultural figure only recently emerging from repressive Soviet fogs. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

And if attracting the attention of potential customers requires yelling, pushing and pandering to baser sentimental instincts, well, a boy’s gotta do what a boy’s gotta do. Theater Review: ?Newsies the Musical,? by Alan Menken and Harvey Fierstein 2012-03-30T02:00:00Z

Season 3 has been this odd mix of sentimental and truly weird moments. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

The result of this technique is that Raulff’s text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental; labyrinthine but not frustrating. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

It fills some gaps left by the disappeared George Wein festivals: sentimental favorites, fusion and tributes. Jazz in June: Sorting Through the Abundance 2011-06-02T22:13:45Z

A sentimental lyricism, with strong Romantic leanings, distinguishes Paul Graham’s latest show of photographs, organized by Pace and Pace/MacGill, from his social-documentary efforts. Paul Graham: ‘Does Yellow Run Forever?’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

If I may be sentimental myself, I’d like to remember them both that way: singing, dancing, working as a team, brave enough to entertain us not through obviousness but through intelligence and generosity. Jan Hooks (1957-2014): An Appreciation 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Both salty and sentimental, “Young Mr. Lincoln” establishes its subject as a folk hero. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Villanelle, who’s like an overgrown child — exuberant and sentimental but with no discernible conscience — looks at a photo of her next target and coos, “Aw, nice face.” Review: In ‘Killing Eve,’ Female Spy Hunts Female Assassin 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

“La Strada” is often sentimental and not always convincing but the ending packs a wallop. Film Forum Is Reopening With a Classic: Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Painting is hard to leave; but this idea, which he would probably find sentimental, evaporates when you learn that he decided they would be his last only after they were finished. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a sentimental as well as practical choice, home to his mother, who left the family years earlier, sending back postcards from locales along the Lincoln Highway during her journey west. Amor Towles’s New Novel Takes You on an American Road Trip 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Evidently he brought home copies of what he liked as a fan, what he thought important or what had sentimental value, for here was a guy who befriended jazz musicians. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z

But I fear a movie that is too sentimental. Brian Tyree Henry stars in "The Outside Story," a road movie "with the smallest possible mileage" 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

“The place is part of New York history and clearly has a legacy from the ’80s and those fun times, but it’s not sentimental why I go there. Indochine: Enduring Club for the Art and Fashion Crowd 2011-09-09T23:34:06Z

It is the cheapest target of all: Humanism is sentimental, flabby, bourgeois, hypocritical, complacent, middlebrow, liberal, sanctimonious, constricting and often an alibi for power. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Coq au vin, a sentimental favorite, is the first dish. "The Julia Child Challenge" and the mystique of one of America's most iconic chefs 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Aestheticism combated the popular anecdotal, sentimental, morally sententious art of the Victorians. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

As for Greuze – what visitor to the Wallace Collection spends much time on this sentimental, morbid, palpably dishonest artist's clogged and nauseating daubs? For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z

Though unabashedly sentimental, the song is also highly effective, its power boosted by the offscreen Walker back story it subtextually describes. 'Furious 7': 'See You Again' songwriter inspired by a different loss 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

If you’re familiar with the crude comedy of misadventure and sentimental education — every generation has its self-defining favorite — you have pretty much seen this movie. ‘Good Boys’ Review: The Cruel Comedy of Lost Innocence 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, we get random flashbacks to the actors’ former glories, like 1960s-era Caine and Courtenay in “The Italian Job” and “Billy Liar” — sentimental call-outs to audiences old enough to remember them. ‘King of Thieves’ Review: Michael Caine Leads a Crew of Artful Codgers 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

What are we possibly more sentimental about than our parents? Parents are people first — who may even love each other more than the kids 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

To that end, it isn’t sentimental, including about children. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

A large part of the “Chariots of Fire” chapter is taken up with a sentimental exploration of the Reagan/Thatcher partnership. Watch One With the Gipper: An Aide Recalls Movie Nights With the Reagans 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

For fans who grew up on Swift, who retain muscle memory of these widescreen tales of teenage heartbreak that were sentimental even when they were new, there’s an added pathos to these revamped versions. Review | Taylor Swift’s new take on ‘Fearless’ piles on the nostalgia, along with some revenge 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

He avoids conventionally picturesque scenes because he is after reality unvarnished by sentimental fantasy. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z

The vaunted realism of Kazan’s films can seem downright sentimental compared with “Wanda,” which has an honesty about marriage, work, sex and class that still feels radical and raw. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

She said that all romantic comedies were essentially mashups of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," but she injected the formula with a somewhat sentimental flavor. Writer, filmmaker Nora Ephron of Sleepless in Seattle' dies at 71 2012-06-27T12:48:22Z

Experts help determine whether the items have more than sentimental worth, while Foxworthy uncovers personal stories that A&E says can be “as impressive as the dollar value itself.” New this week: Luke Bryan, Jeff Foxworthy and 2 Seth Rogans 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Though I dig a sentimental journey as much as the next person, a week without tears is a relief. It's nostalgic to watch amateur cooks tackle Julia Child's oeuvre—but this "challenge" also irks me 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

In place of a coherent story line, the show offers sentimental vibes, especially in the spacious lobby, which features a quaint display of old gallery posters. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

So that was my priority, as opposed to having a big round of applause and being sentimental. Iwan Rheon on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Ramsay Bolton’s Most Despicable Acts 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Nothing says Christmas like sentimental, high-quality commercials that may actually convince you to reach for that credit card. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

But his more durable Cadence singles were sentimental torch songs that tapped Williams’ wider dramatic range and allowed him to reach a tenor crescendo for the big finish. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z

Can a tunesome romance be socially and comedically au courant, without forsaking the sentimental wooing and winning we still pine for? Can romantic musicals survive Twitter, Facebook and hookups? 2012-03-14T20:17:04Z

Crude and knockabout, it nonetheless has — like many a bromance — a sloppy, sentimental heart. Movie Review: ‘That’s What She Said,’ a Comedy Directed by Carrie Preston 2012-10-18T21:33:23Z

Selinger rattled off the stereotypes that dog romance like this: “It’s fluffy. It’s sentimental, it’s trivial. It’s it deals with emotions and not ideas. It doesn’t stand up to close reading. It doesn’t challenge you.” For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

In the wrong hands, even in Sledge’s later in his career, the song becomes saccharine and sentimental. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

We disagreed on it less strongly than you think, I suspect, though I thought for a work of efficient sentimental manipulation, it delivered. 2017 Tony Awards: Our Theater Critics Discuss the Nominations 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Is there anything more sentimental than a home video of a little kid dancing? Review: The Joyce Unleashed Series, With a Middle Eastern Flavor 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Our critic dubbed it “a gleeful, tender and even sentimental film.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Anderson, who lives in Birmingham, about two hours away from his grandparents, said the sentimental note took him by surprise. Grandfather's note about family with free baseballs melts Twitter users' hearts: 'Cherish these times' 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

For those who just want the cheat sheet, here’s how “The Good Place” ended Thursday, in a prolonged, heavily sentimental but ultimately satisfying series finale. Review | What did ‘The Good Place’ teach us? That even eternal bliss needs a happy ending. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

But an antiquated technology is likely to become an object of sentimental regret, protected by those who balk at the pace of change. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z

In contrast to Buck’s sentimental hit, “China Red” was offbeat and sarcastic, critical of overeducated Chinese élites and clueless Americans alike. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is also deeply unsentimental about our sentimental natures, and how we perceive happiness only retrospectively. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In general, the series leans too heavily on monologues — to lovers, to lost spouses, to unborn babies — on its sentimental folk-rock soundtrack, and on twist storytelling. ‘This Is Us’ Ends a Tear-Jerking Season With a Beginning 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

As with the network's usual extreme-makeover series, the presentation is overexcited, with every sentimental point pushed past breaking, but the obsessiveness and the invention speak for themselves. 'A Very Larry Christmas,' Bernie Madoff, 'Christmas Light Fight' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gordon’s “Clouded Yellow” was unusually bright and airy; in “Love Bleeds Radiant,” by Dan Visconti, a sentimental theme purred through recorded crackle and explosive outbursts to a peaceful resolution. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z

She is not consigning her own well-used Eames pieces, which have sentimental value. Antiques: Eames Trove to Be Sold at Wright Auction House 2010-04-01T22:41:00Z

“The Music Shop” is an unabashedly sentimental tribute to the healing power of great songs, and Joyce is hip to greatness in any key. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Things subside pretty quickly, though, and the balance of the season is a formulaic and increasingly sentimental family drama. Review: ‘Lost in Space,’ This Time With More Company 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Words and phrases are dismantled with a wry deliberation and an improvisatory boldness that put a question mark at the end of songs, especially when the lyrics are sentimental. Music Review: Patti Wicks?s Jazzy Turn at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-15T22:48:00Z

Viewers who are already skeptical of fracking are likely to find gratification in the film’s sentimental, studiously ambiguous conclusion. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z

It’s a somewhat familiar if rather elevated sentimental education, with in-class discussions about the ancient Greeks and democracy, and an outside world that seems largely defined by its stark black-and-white truths. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Whenever there's a film based on real people, it's practically a legal compulsion now to show a sentimental, celebratory snapshot of these real people over the closing credits. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:02Z

But the story of Marie tugs the show in more obvious and sentimental directions. ‘Little Dancer,’ With Tiler Peck as Degas Muse 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

But the overlap in their sensibilities turns “Loro” into a blurry, distracted, sentimental portrait. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This 1971 comedy of apocalyptic urban aggravation reflects a deteriorating America more consistent with the Bob Dylan song "Everything is Broken," than with Simon's more familiar snappy/sentimental Broadway hits of the 1970s and '80s. Review: 'Prisoner's' downsized predicament seems all too familiar 2011-05-07T03:30:06Z

Preciousness of another sort is a danger in the kind of sentimental journey that Mr. Kitson undertakes here. | 'It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later': ?It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z

This is no sentimental journey, though; it's a proud, sophisticated and luxurious take on the bake. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Something old, in the most sentimental sense of the term. Perspective | Ben from Nantucket? How summer buddies found year-round romance. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

He gets sentimental: he cooked for his mother, he tells Lillian, just to give her a day off. Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Chaos of Spoils 2012-09-23T22:04:22Z

Both books are occasionally sentimental, but so are most mourners when they recollect their loved ones. How to remember 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

There’s something unsavory — not to mention sentimental — about using the horrors of the past as a goad to self-knowledge. | Sarah?s Key': The Horror of Yesterday and the Everyday of Today 2011-07-21T21:37:34Z

Farouk is a spindly and sentimental construction who never attains actual character status. A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The leader's voice nearly cracks when attempting extreme highs and crooning sentimental thoughts. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

“I want to describe not what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there, but the punitive and sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation,” Sontag wrote. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Herschel is neither a sentimental schlemiel nor a twinkly old-world grandpa, but rather an impatient, sometimes intolerant striver with a violent streak. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

And, even if the play has its sentimental side, that is balanced by the comedy of Miles attempting to identify with the pain of a soon-to-be-slaughtered cow. The Drawer Boy – review 2012-06-25T17:22:57Z

It’s a stretch to call this sentimental painting radical, even by the standards of its time. At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Victorian Radicals’ is certainly Victorian. But radical? Not so much. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

David Copperfield has its sentimental moments — the death of David’s mother among them — and they are a critical part of its appeal, but the novel endures because of its fundamental optimism and good cheer. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 4: David Copperfield 2012-02-02T23:24:54Z

Ford described himself as a "sentimental Tory" who liked "pomp, banners, divine rights, unreasonable ceremonies and ceremoniousness". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z

Lambert also sings in a plethora of different voices — cocksure, sentimental, bruising, bruised, tender, resentful. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

My affection has only deepened with Mr. Grandage’s version, which unobtrusively melds the play’s sentimental and snarling sides. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z

Although fearlessly offensive, the two are always deeply moral, even occasionally sentimental, and this show is no exception. Mormon glory 2011-03-31T18:24:24Z

A new country-inflected sound, sentimental but sophisticated, was taking shape, its refined instrumentation honed in clubs like the Ash Grove and the Troubadour and then burnished in the studio. Linda Ronstadt Discusses Her Memoir and Parkinson’s 2013-08-28T15:53:56Z

And a typical day in the night, as it were, becomes a sentimental, mock-heroic epic. | 'Super Night Shot': Gob Squad?s ?Super Night Shot? at Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-07T00:49:11Z

Their lives, the young men insist, should not be reduced to stories, to the sort of sentimental or sensational anecdotes that might captivate a college admissions office. Review: ‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Her patter was flashier and more sentimental than the auction-house norm. Antiques: Antiques Auction Shows on Television 2012-01-26T22:51:53Z

Last week, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat penned a sentimental remembrance of George Bush, and an explanation of "Why We Miss the WASPs." Is “WASP nostalgia” just a dog whistle? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The humor goes broad, the emotion gets sticky sentimental more often than it has to. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The final duel on Redemption Island matched four people, including Matt, the sentimental favorite for his ability to endure. 'Survivor' supplies redemption to winner 2011-05-16T03:00:51Z

They spend a day clinging to Abbi’s ratty couch, a piece of worn-out furniture whose sentimental value quickly becomes a symbol for the New York chapter of their friendship. "Broad City": Breaking out, not breaking up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

This stale and sometimes patronizing premise is recycled in Christopher Zalla’s “Radical,” a sentimental drama that is based on a true story but boxes neatly into familiar packaging. ‘Radical’ Review: To Sergio With Love 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80' 2012-11-15T20:00:08Z

British soccer louts, the First and Second World Wars, the brutalities of South African apartheid—to Lessing, all punctured the “sentimental” fiction that human beings are more than the sum of their atavistic urges. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

Hawke, accelerating without notice into passionate sermons or welling into sentimental tears, cuts through the contradictions by emphasizing a theatricality that doesn’t undermine Brown’s sincerity but is inextricable from it. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

This is a sentimental journey, and the filmmakers sometimes seem clumsily sentimental in how they present it. | '100 Voices': Cantors Try to Heal Rift Through Song 2010-09-21T22:06:00Z

It's a likable film played with gusto and heart — though fundamentally a little sentimental and predictable. Cannes 2012: Reality ? review 2012-05-18T12:24:28Z

Growing up in Bombay, I remember the tranquil energy of her style; it wasn’t sentimental, but it was vibrant. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“I’m sentimental, not nostalgic. I steal restaurant ashtrays because they remind you of people you know.” Nicky Haslam’s House of Commons 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

His weakest works from his later years — "countless Mädchenköpfe, or 'girls' heads,' " as art historian Susanne Böller implies — may well have diluted his reputation with their sentimental idealization of young females. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z

There, the old guard won out, as Brando’s best actor campaign was stalled by a sentimental surge for the never-honoured Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Pascal commits completely to the bit, even though he and Heidi Gardner come extremely close to breaking as the scene turns more sentimental. ‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

“It’s not just sexual, it has artistic merit and beauty. It’s sentimental and more intimate than sending my face.” The Selfie That Dares to Go There 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

That may be enough to jerk a few tears from sentimental viewers, and the film's returning-vet theme resonates with current headlines about post-traumatic stress disorder and military suicides. 'Least Among Saints': War vet, orphan head into uncertain future 2012-10-18T20:16:12Z

Mayr focused entirely on the humor; his opera based on this material is a one-act work he categorized as a “sentimental farce.” Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In its own male-skewed way, ”Deadliest Catch” is the most sentimental show on television. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z

Somewhat surprisingly for a director so adept at probing hidden feelings, Mr. Gold, who lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, the playwright Amy Herzog, concedes that he is neither emotional nor sentimental. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

People will say I'm being totally sentimental, but I'm not. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z

Yet Karl becomes sentimental and protective, and he doesn’t share his parents’ doubts about the baby’s paternity. | 'Down Terrace': Trying to Sniff Out a Rat Hiding in a Toxic World 2010-10-14T23:21:00Z

This traffic between the everyday and mortality requires a perfect control of tone, neither sententious nor sentimental in this familiar setting. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore - review 2012-07-20T21:55:04Z

Next to that Monroe looks like just a grump, soft inside, a bit sugary and sentimental. TV review: Monroe; Health Before the NHS 2012-10-01T21:00:01Z

He generously wanted to honor his sometime protégé for the book that would tell Larson’s story, but he was not overly sentimental. What Did Stephen Sondheim Really Think of ‘Rent’? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a sentimental story about love, work and friendship, meaningfully set against the backdrop of gaming — a subject which fiction too often treats as a narrative gimmick, objective correlative or some other transient device. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

Still, this is one of Ashton’s most sentimental and thin creations; I can’t enjoy the way Marguerite continually abases herself to both Armand and his father; and why are the surrounding men such milksops? Fall for Dance Festival Is Short but Packed 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

I mentioned that the final scene, with its focus on a character’s relationship with a dog, is affecting without being sentimental. Jon Hamm’s Second Act 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The last scenes may belong in a different, more sentimental novel, but by this point you will want difficult, damaged Polly to find her happy ending. Strangers in the Night, Exchanging Genre Conventions 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

We are sentimental, status-driven, beset by the overweening desires of small humans and – let's not forget – lazy. Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z

But she rejects the sentimental connection she knows colleagues would draw between her research and her brother’s agony. Review | Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ is a book of blazing brilliance 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The same sentimental musical note from May's earlier tender moment also plays over this scene. "Top Chef: World All Stars" cooks with sugar and spice (and everything rice) 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

A mirror of bone-deep disillusionment, the play moves from dyspeptic cynicism to desperate, born-again euphoria that rings sentimental and totally false. Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z

This commercial is the same formula as last year’s: puppies + horses + folksy, sentimental music = CUE THE WATERWORKS. Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Rather, the text and the performances also fit snugly into Desplechin’s comfort zone—a complacently sentimental embrace of his experiences, his background, his emotions, and his actors. Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

And I promised myself I wouldn’t get all sentimental. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z

The sentimental appearance of an aged Han and Chewie only serves as a depressing reminder of the eccentric fun of the past. I'm a Star Wars fan, but won't be watching The Force Awakens 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

As for the answers themselves, some students pick objects with sentimental value: an old sweater, a baseball game program. Linda Sue Park’s New Book of Poems Is Just a Drill 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

“November Road” could easily have descended into sentimental cliches, but — thanks largely to the character of Charlotte — it never does. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The father is a widower—stern, sad, and sentimental, by turns, like the father in the brilliant and painful Coventry Patmore poem “The Toys.” This Week in Fiction: Paul Theroux 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

This is going to be a sentimental business. Joan Acocella: The Trey McIntyre Project Says Farewell 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The story, though, is less intense and more sentimental than his best work. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But in trimming complex issues to fit a sentimental story line, Strand has inevitably sacrificed some of their nuances; meanwhile, as a drama, “The Originalist” often tests our credulity. Drama about Antonin Scalia plays out like 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, some not insignificant items have disappeared from our home over the past few months: some very old ivory figurines that have great sentimental value for my husband and, possibly, some fine jewelry. I Haven’t Talked to This Asian-American Friend in Years. Should I Call Now? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“He’s a very sentimental man, and I thought it was sweet.” A ‘Dreamer’ Finds His Sense of Belonging 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Tess earns her own aches and bruises, some from her culinary education, some from her sentimental one. ‘Sweetbitter’ Is a Coming-of-Age Story, With Wine Pairings 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Placed here and there around the room are photographs of sentimental cemetery sculpture, including stones with the words “Mama” and “Mother” carved into them. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

At this point in his anecdote, the old proprietor's eyes became glazed with sentimental pleasure. Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z

It is also about what all those things mean, and what kinds of sentimental and ideological value are attached to them. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Some of what he did was radical, much of it was sentimental. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

This one's by Nick Glennie-Smith, and it soars up at every possible sentimental moment — and there are plenty. 'Secretariat': Slow out of the gate, film picks up speed in horse-racing scenes 2010-10-07T19:35:00Z

And for the first 20 minutes or so of “The Night Alive,” I was cheerfully resigned to what I assumed would be a piquant, sentimental slice of naturalism, well-cut but familiar in flavor. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z

At various times critics deemed his work predictable, preachy or sentimental. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z

She was not the first woman I’d hired to care for my children, but she was the first to confess to sentimental entanglement. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

The book is not cloying or straightforward or sentimental, yet, writes Ellie Robins in our review, it is an “achingly tender novel.” Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Of course this show time-travels with plenty of baggage, which Mr. Wolfe unpacks with pedagogical annotations and sentimental mistiness. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Will win: Stallone is lovely in Creed, returning to the role that defined him, and he’s likely to prove a sentimental favorite with the Academy. Here's Who Will Win—and Should Win—at the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

But the hope is there — or if it isn’t hope, it’s maybe something better: levelheaded, compassionate protagonists, with just enough integrity and ambivalence that they never feel sentimental. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Hara also chooses to conclude the play with its most sentimental scene, with Sutter paying an affectionate visit to his grandmother in a nursing home, ordering up ribs for her on his iPhone. ‘Bootycandy’ Looks at Black Attitudes Toward Gays 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But after covering Los Angeles theater for the last 10 years, I don't quite share the sentimental view of some of my colleagues. In 99-seat tussle, don't lose sight: Common goal is a healthy theater scene 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

It's a little disconcerting delivered by the man with one of the most earnestly sentimental voices in pop — but maybe that's the point. James Blunt brings livelier songs to Moore 2011-05-05T18:02:04Z

Speaking at City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's HQ, at a fringe event at Conservative conference, she paid tribute to that city's role in her sentimental education. Maria Miller: the arts need to get better at asking, not just receiving 2012-10-08T16:07:42Z

Because photos are such sentimental items, you should tackle the other decluttering projects in your home first and go through photos when your organizing and decision-making skills are a bit more honed. Marie Kondo has advice for living and working at home in a pandemic 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Last week’s sentimental reunion of NBC’s beloved “Parks and Recreation” cast for a special episode, told entirely in a Zoom-like conversational format, became an instant classic of the era. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

But The Spirit of '45 lacks the force and humanity of his fictional films and is a thin, misleading and sentimental account of history, and how we got from there to here. The Spirit of '45 – review 2013-03-17T00:05:46Z

The star does his patented shtick, supported by a handful of blue-chip supporting performers, as the story lurches through contrived, seminaughty comic set pieces toward a sentimental ending. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z

I was sentimental in part because I loved writing for the site, even though I never quite understood what it was supposed to be—it was in a constant state of becoming. Vine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expression 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The rumbling power-pop tune, which eventually landed on the “Singles” soundtrack reissue, fit Friday’s more down-to-business mood after Wednesday’s sentimental homecoming. Pearl Jam cleverly honors Chris Cornell at Seattle Home Shows on an upbeat Night Two 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

On that point, in all four episodes I don’t recall seeing any of those sentimental shots of presses rolling. Review | It’s exhausting being a reporter in the Trump era. A new documentary captures the toll at the New York Times. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Across pages that never succumb to a single melodramatic or sentimental phrase, Nora quietly manages her grief and figures out how to carry on with her life. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

Though it brims with vibrant reminiscence and a love of craft, “Finishing” is not at heart sentimental. Books of The Times: Sondheim?s Rhymes and Reasons 2010-10-21T17:45:00Z

As it pinballs from one dizzying technological shift to another, Hollywood can’t possibly build a viable future without robustly embracing and promoting its past — and not just by paying it sentimental lip service. Perspective | The death of FilmStruck: Erasing cinema’s history will have only a negative effect on its future 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

You can also find arguments for the beauty and necessity of scaffolding and hear from pedestrians sentimental about it. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

It stuck because my mom, like others I have met, has always preferred sentimental to splurge-y gifts, even if my stanzas could never compare to Keats or Ginsberg. Mother’s Day Gifts, Reframed 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

Though a handful of critics have deemed the film overly sentimental, reviews have been generally positive. For Russell Crowe, directing 'Water Diviner' is risky; reward is 'freedom' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

This is singing that at the same time expresses character and disdains sentimental notions that character might be glorified by song. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z

Other tracks, like the piano-heavy “The Meaning Of It All” and the title track, are mellow and tender, with sentimental lyrics. Listen to Delta Rae's Soulful New Album After It All: Premiere 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Not all of the old-timers are sentimental about the building. Twisted Wheel joins Cavern and Wigan Casino in music venue graveyard 2012-12-27T19:39:56Z

This selective history stays just shy of sentimental overkill: British abuses during the famine are vividly described, while the appalling excesses of the New York Draft Riots in 1863 are glossed over. | 'The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way': A Frank McCourt Revue Is Revived 2010-08-04T21:33:00Z

I am sentimental enough to enjoy my memories of great directors and their signatures, great companies and their sweet spots. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

In Southworth’s books, sentimental potboilers with titles such as “Mystery of Raven Rocks,” “A Beautiful Fiend,” “The Doom of Deville,” “The Curse of Clifton” and “The Missing Bride,” the action never stops. The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

When she asks her husband to “buy this perfect day” for her, it seems less acquisitive than sentimental. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

For now, the main appeal of these video dances is sentimental. Review: More Mark Morris Video Dances, More Postcards to Fans 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Will can be acerbic and witty, but he also has a very tender and sentimental side, and when that comes out, as it does here, he produces some of his best stuff.” A Treasure Map of a Childhood, Filled With Magic and Newts 2013-08-30T23:15:33Z

For Israel, though, there is a sentimental reflex resisting the gravity of despair, which is not ­surprising: Despair may be the only mortal sin a true politician never commits. Book review: ‘The Global War on Morris,’ a political satire by Congressman Steve Israel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

If anything, Adams’s version of “1989” is more earnest and, in its way, sincere and sentimental than the original. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Arranged chronologically, the sentimental journey through Mr. Cash’s life is punctuated by music selections available through iPads and headsets, including 1940s tunes the musician considered influential from the Grand Ole Opry to the Texas border. In Transit Blog: A Museum Named Cash 2013-06-18T21:10:13Z

And as far as being sentimental, this music is beyond sentimental, it’s gone beyond that point. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

To Felder, the son is telling a sentimental, haunting and difficult story. Chris Lemmon channels his Pops in 'Jack Lemmon Returns' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s not a bad idea — it’s loosely based on a stint the pop star Harry Styles spent living with the show’s executive producer, Ben Winston — but the writing tends toward the bland and sentimental. These Are the Best and Worst (Actually New) Sitcoms This Fall 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The audience seemed just as entranced by the musical, which is equal parts spooky, silly and sentimental. ‘I Love It So Much’: This ‘Cats’ Adaptation Has the Kids Singing 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

He can be sentimental, like Dickens, but he too is a master story-spinner and conjuror of atmosphere. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z

It’s as if a decade’s blurry reminiscence has been flattened into an indefinite, sentimental mush. ‘8-Bit Christmas’ Review: Now You’re Playing With Power 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In slow movements, you notice how little vibrato the strings use; though the resulting sound is sometimes chalky, typically sentimental passages are recolored with a lightness that doesn’t skimp on lyricism. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The somber and sentimental Béjart ballet “Song of a Wayfarer” falls into an uninspiring category: the not-worst ballet by a hollow choreographer. At the Joyce, a Feast of Dancers at a Sometimes Meager Table 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

People don't want to be thought of as sentimental. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z

The acoustic waltz "No Wicked Grin" is sweet without being sentimental. Review: Hiatt sings of Funyuns, more on new album 2012-09-24T16:44:33Z

Eminently moving but never sentimental, Porter's powerful tale of a dysfunctional family at breaking point is plotted with the suspense of a well-paced thriller. In Between Days by Andrew Porter – review 2013-07-14T09:00:00Z

The difficulty begins in Dubedat's studio in Act III, as it does in many scenes that introduce one of Shaw's artistic young men – such as the sentimental poet Eugene Marchbanks in Candida. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z

Once Mr. Murphy’s cerebral, melancholy, exactingly rhythmic songs offered listeners a new language with which to explain themselves: sentimental yet ironic, self-mocking, focused on friends and the complicated wages of adulthood. Pop: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ 2012-07-07T04:51:37Z

The sentimental poem ends with the lines: "Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers." The True Story Behind Winnie the Pooh and 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Yes, it follows a charming, mismatched couple on a sentimental journey involving presents, family and the sharing of food and feelings,” A.O. What’s on TV This Week: Lots of Holiday Specials and ‘Yellowstone’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Scattershot segments visit cheesy attractions that signal desperation on the part of field producers, and Mr. Bourdain’s narration turns both jokey and sentimental as he strains to compensate. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z

As an actor you want to be part of something that moves people, but is not just sentimental. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z

But the last two times she stayed over, we noticed objects of sentimental value were missing. Our Teen Houseguest Seems to Be Stealing Stuff 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Things that have sentimental value to me I keep, and all these things meant something. Gina Schock on The Go-Go's "explosive and crazy" energy together and her new book of insider photos 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

The reproof in their eyes, and the camaraderie implicit in their silence, provide moral and sentimental satisfactions that outweigh the infelicities of plot. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

"The film meant a lot to me — I guess I'm sentimental," he told The Times a year after its release. Film composer James Horner feared dead: Six of his memorable scores 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Everyone who knows the truth about Ree's dad has a great interest in keeping quiet about it, combined with a sentimental, family-based compulsion to help this one person who must be kept in the dark. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z

Behind the Candelabra starts off super-camp and hyper-kitsch and long after the storm of parting it ends up gently sentimental and celebratory. Behind the Candelabra – Cannes 2013 review 2013-05-21T08:25:41Z

In the sentimental, wholesome programme, he played James Capen Adams, who leaves his home and family, and flees to the Rocky Mountains after wrongly being accused of a murder. Dan Haggerty obituary 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Is it too sentimental of me to see Douglass pouring his lifeblood into his work — literally writing from the heart? 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It is true to old-fashioned opera in being sentimental. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

But true to her nature, she doesn’t allow the news to make her sentimental, squishy or demonstrative with her affection. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Best of all was a rendition of his 1966 hit, “The Impossible Dream,” that transformed this sentimental war horse into an anthem of personal determination, not only to keep moving but to keep getting better. Music Review: Jack Jones Performs at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-06-28T21:08:42Z

I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain. Dylan's 'Shadows in the Night' illuminates American standards 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it. Review: In ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ a Magical Bond in Peril Again 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

On an aeroplane, watching a terrible, sentimental movie. Elvis Costello: ‘Who do I most despise? There isn’t enough paper, there isn’t enough ink’ | The Q&A 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

He remained an obstinate idealist, however, whose faith in humanity's promise often tempted him into a sentimental proletarianism. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z

It is ultimately sentimental, but this an engaging and good-looking picture. Mud – review 2013-05-09T20:55:01Z

The documentary “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” offers a sentimental tour of the former congresswoman’s recovery process and her efforts to prevent gun violence in the years following the shooting. ‘Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down’ Review: A New Mission 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

It's an unexpectedly sentimental exercise to take stock of how you bedazzle, spice, umami and sweeten your eating life — almost like paging through old photo albums. What condiments would you take on a cross-country move? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

An earlier version of this extravagantly sentimental reminiscence was produced in Los Angeles in 2003. Music Review: Celebrating Mama?s Rainbow 2011-01-05T22:55:42Z

But it was the Japanese film “Departures,” which many considered the most conventional and sentimental of the five, that won. 2010-01-29T18:57:00Z

For instance: The show's "Liz" theme - a bouncy, familiar tune heard since the very first episode that was often arranged with a Scott Joplin lilt, but here was reimagined as lush and sentimental. A final '30 Rock' showcases its unsung music man 2013-01-29T18:01:04Z

Signature logos tend not to appeal to design purists, who consider them to be sentimental, even cheesy, but they do look friendly and welcoming. Design: Company Logos Aim for the Personal Touch 2011-06-13T08:00:06Z

“The words of the songs had all the meat of life in them. Their humor had a bite, it was not trivial. Their tragedy was real, not sentimental.” Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

Never again will he express contempt for old people who wax sentimental about pets, he says: "I had no idea that fur soaks up tears so well." Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z

It does, however, have one sentimental surprise at the end that testifies to Sparks' storytelling shrewdness. Review: 'Safe Haven' is routine romantic thriller 2013-02-14T01:31:06Z

But for others — maybe the more sentimental among us — going back to that ignorance feels like a loss. Leaving Facebook? Easier said than done. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The final episode, presumably prepared in a rush after CBS’s abrupt midseason cancellation of the show, was clumsy, overly sentimental at times and infernally clever. ArtsBeat: 'Medium' Ends With Emotional Farewell 2011-01-24T19:44:17Z

But it's clearly sentimental to imagine that student activism is always on the side of "right" or "truth". I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

His style is sentimental gothic, and though it should be easy to caricature, it defies imitation. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

“He knew how to talk about faith and belief, and it wasn’t sentimental,” said Mr. Elliott, whose commitment to Roman Catholicism had been shared by his late partner. Finding Devout Faith in Each Other 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

To its credit, the movie doesn’t collapse into sentimental mush when Stéphane begins to bond with his frisky little boy. | 'My Piece of the Pie': ?My Piece of the Pie? - Review 2011-12-09T02:19:48Z

It has a lot of sentimental value and I'm kind of insane about it. BBC Sound Of 2015: Raury 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

This collection is not flowery or sentimental, like many personal stories about the immigrant experience or Middle Eastern family life can be. Irreverant stories of Arab-American women fill Randa Jarrar's 'Him, Me, Muhammad Ali' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

I think if I was even a little bit sentimental when the guy dies, then it would go wrong. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

It’s no accident that the sentimental escapism that defined the summer also happens to describe the house style of the studio that now controls a Lion King-size share of the movie business. Perspective | Summer movies circa 2019: A season of random blips and nostalgia trips 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Over the years, however, the song has been covered dozens of times, shapeshifting into a sentimental elegy, a mission statement, cutting social commentary, and even an aspirational anthem. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Exit 12 Dance Company’s “Homecoming,” about the spouses of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, was manipulatively sentimental and obvious in its effects. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival at Battery Park 2012-08-17T23:55:17Z

At times it verges on sentimental: he asks if I have children, and when I tell him I have a baby son he nods gravely, as if I've just shared. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z

The construction notebook reveals a remarkable combination of hard-headed calculation and sentimental warmth. Exhibition Review: A View Inside King Kong?s Perch 2011-07-16T00:00:07Z

It’s only when it takes an unfortunate wrong turn from playful wit into the dramatic and sentimental — Hallström’s speciality — that the movie starts to unravel. A Pair of Fish Tales: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2012-03-09T14:00:33Z

It’s a sentimental spell that’s not broken until later, when we leave the premises at the end of the tour through a white tent where merchandise is sold. Prince’s former studio and residence in Minnesota now is open as a museum 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Eventually, Mr. Organ settles into more assured rhythms and his voice — a little eccentric, a little sentimental — comes through clearly. ‘Phoenix,’ Starring Julia Stiles, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

There is nary a trace of the sentimental or the false in her portrayal of Rose. Theater Review: ‘Red Dog Howls,’ by Alexander Dinelaris 2012-09-25T02:30:05Z

As rational arguments for environmental protection or civil rights show, morality is possible without sentimental appeals to individual suffering. The case for compassion, not empathy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

What Scheer hopes he and Heggie have kept intact is the emotional — but not sentimental — story about artists who wrestle with love, tragedy and AIDS. 1st Stage’s new artistic director swings for fences with ‘Take Me Out’

When politicians use the word "real", they usually mean depressingly average, sentimental, bitter and anti-intellectual types. Who cares about culture cuts when Top Gear is doing well in Poland? 2010-05-12T21:35:00Z

But, by the end, all sentimental absolutes — beginnings, ends, loneliness — become red herrings. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

One could formulate that they were done in the spur of the moment, and mean less to their wearer than more sentimental tattoos, such as family-oriented ones. The pop tattoo makes its mark 2013-04-02T17:30:01Z

Overshadowed by more important objets d’art, it is of sentimental value to only one person, and yet it is the mysterious heart of the story.” Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z

Take your pick, as it's been done by everyone from Art Garfunkel to Harry Connick, Jr. to any number of sentimental karaoke drunks around the world. The secret Sinatra past of Bob Dylan's new album 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Mean Girls” does have a stronger spine than a sentimental piece such as “School of Rock”: the soul of Fey’s script is closer to bruised than bubbly. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ fans: Tina Fey’s musical is a singing, dancing revenge party, and it’s funny 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

An elderly man was moved to tears — along with the rest of Facebook — after his teenage caretaker surprised him with a sentimental present. 94-year-old man moved to tears after teenage caretaker surprises him with gift, viral video shows 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

The persistence of sentimental nonsense that has tainted the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series since its inception more than two decades ago is gone; in its place are hardheaded films on difficult subjects. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

What these composers share is a near-nerdy infatuation with rhythmic complexity, a harmonic and melodic directness, a fascination with poetry, a sentimental side and a love for trick endings. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

He praised Mr. Levine for being “tender without being sentimental, calm but not lacking in passion, writing in a diction as clear and lucid as spring water.” Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

What about Hislop himself, is he Wellington or Nelson, stoical or sentimental? TV review: Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip – An Emotional History of Britain; Cuckoo 2012-10-02T21:35:01Z

The title of the book is tellingly sentimental. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Templetown’s designs were very sentimental, not particularly to my taste, but they do stand up well as good pieces of their kind. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z

Its message was sentimental but its delivery frisky, so that the general mood fell somewhere in between. Music Review: Nnenna Freelon: Vocalist Who Bends Melodies 2010-05-12T20:28:00Z

“Hugo” is the tale of a boy, one of fiction’s sentimental orphans, and the world he invents, yet, unsurprisingly, its most heartfelt passages are about Méliès. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z

Sincere but not sentimental, “Every Brilliant Thing” doesn’t candy-coat the subject of suicide and family survival.  'Every Brilliant Thing' approaches suicide with touching comic sincerity 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

From belly button fluff to diamond rings, seemingly mundane objects, sentimental items, letters and photographs are annotated and become emotionally charged. 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

I adore the drive, the warmth, the apparent spontaneity, the dizzy humour, the hilarious demolition of sentimental material. Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011-02-19T00:05:53Z

Indeed, he adds, Lincoln ultimately was able to redefine democracy “precisely because he had experienced culture in all its dimensions — from high to low, sacred to profane, conservative to radical, sentimental to subversive.” Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Chad Hartigan’s sweet and sentimental comic drama “Morris from America” is nonetheless an experimental film—it’s an experiment in fatherhood, to see what kind of son matures from a certain kind of father. The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Profoundly enchanting but never sentimental, “Tyll” is a magnificent story of an artist’s transcendence over the petty superstitions, convenient betrayals and widespread brutality of his time. When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But the real abundance here is of feelings between characters, not all of them sentimental. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

In each instance, that parting image borders on sentimental, and you wonder: Why did Mr. Abraham repeat himself so quickly? Review: Kyle Abraham, Sleekly Protesting Racial Injustice 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

He had turned, Mr. Gillett said, into a sentimental pop singer. Charlie Gillett, Disc Jockey and Historian, Dies at 68 2010-03-21T03:26:00Z

Why must they indulge in sentimental fare full of heartening Life Lessons? "Nora's Will": Jewish Mexican suicide comedy! 2010-10-23T00:30:00Z

Corre said he would keep a few items of sentimental value, including clothing he helped his mother sew as a boy. Multi-million pound Sex Pistols collection to go up in flames 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

It was frenetic and jumpy and sentimental, like a senior running around the hall trying to collect as many yearbook signatures as possible before the final bell. Glee Watch: NYADA, NYADA, NYADA 2012-05-23T15:24:53Z

If that makes the series sound dangerously cheesy and sentimental, well, it is those things, though not in fatal doses. ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Review: The Blind Girl and the Nazi 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

Strangest of all is a sentimental tendency that wasn’t there before. Fatherhood is giving me superpowers… so why am I always blubbing? 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Sometimes she sounded just like a weepy character in a sentimental movie. "Too bad you were born a girl" 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

It is not an organ that one has any sentimental attachment to. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

“About everything sellable is going to be sold. I don’t think I reserved a darn thing for sentimental reasons.” A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The documentary “Breath of Freedom,” Monday night on the Smithsonian Channel, is clumsily structured and unnecessarily sentimental, but at least it puts across how oversimplified that narrative is. Television Review: ‘Breath of Freedom,’ on Smithsonian Channel 2014-02-16T21:28:39Z

Rather, it’s the audacity of taking a stock sentimental situation, applying a sentimental score, then adding a sound of potentially greater sentimentality. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Which just tells you how important Mexican film and music are for Mexicans, and how it bonds them together. Mexico sometimes is very sentimental — but that’s the way it is.” Mining Mexican cinema for its music: How songs and scores lend power to the picture 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

He said he found his role as Captain Von Trapp too sentimental, and even called the movie "The Sound of Mucus." TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

They aren’t a pleasant bunch, but I doubt anyone interested in the show was hoping for uncomplicated hugs and sentimental cooperation. Fox’s ‘Empire’: A hip-hop mogul prepares to drop his final track 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

The final scene, which finds them back on their bikes, manages to be sentimental and cynical in equal measure. ‘The Climb’ Review: The Dudes Abide 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The sentimental stereotype of primitive Africans agog over Western technology is nowhere to be found. Review: ‘Mediterranea,’ African Migrants’ Perilous Trek to a Hostile Land 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Much as we may enjoy the spectacle of money, we usually prefer it to be accompanied by sentimental lessons about how there are more important things. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z

In fact, that isn't exactly what happens, and, a little disconcertingly, Valka turns out to have a sentimental regard for Stalin. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z

Tonight's freeloading audience, both actual and virtual, bear witness to Coldplay at their most propulsive and sentimental. Coldplay ? review 2011-07-24T17:27:01Z

Younger, who, like Mr. Rubenfeld, is not one to get sentimental, replies, simply, “Good.” Books of The Times: Brimming With Clues That Are Hard to Link 2011-02-03T00:08:48Z

The pilot is near perfect, setting up the brothers’ relationship on just the right side of sentimental. Grandfathered and The Grinder: John Stamos and Rob Lowe's mid-career triumphs 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Debo kept some things for sentimental reasons but generally thought nothing of passing clothes on,” she said. At Chatsworth House, a Tale of Five Centuries 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

For people like me, whose babies learned to crawl atop a Karastan, there’s a sentimental attachment to having the centerpiece of your home made in your hometown. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Orchestras need to kind of regenerate and follow new paths, and so do conductors. But I love them dearly and yes, it’s sentimental, sure.” Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

This biscuit tin was given to me by my grandfather before he died and although I treasure it for sentimental reasons, others are not so taken with it. Ugly treasures: horrible ornaments we just can't hide away. Now share yours 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In part that’s because of sentimental value and in part, perhaps, because they belonged to a living creature. Is This the End of the Mink Coat? 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

It's nicely done, warmly emotional but not too sentimental. "Secretariat" Review: A Feel Good Movie to be Proud of 2010-10-07T20:05:00Z

Poorly chosen, sentimental or trite text is likely to lead to similar dance. Lost in translation: does dancing to words work? 2011-04-06T15:58:31Z

Both attracted sentimental audiences, somewhere in the 25-year span of middle age. Critic?s Notebook: Different Trips From Georgia to New York 2011-03-14T22:39:07Z

She could also deliver sentimental ballads like "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep. Patty Andrews of Andrews sisters dead at 94 2013-01-30T22:50:10Z

Their songs included the sentimental Streisand-Neil Diamond duet “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” Sinatra’s snappy “Nice ’n’ Easy” and Dean Martin’s dreamy “Sleep Warm.” Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Psychologist Tim Lomas created an interactive lexicography of emotion words in languages from Akkadian to Zulu, positing that expanded sentimental vocabularies enrich our inner lives. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Greene liked to complain that Yankees were “plump, smug, sentimental, ready for the easy tear and the hearty laugh and the fraternity yell.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

“The Sound of Music,” he thought, was sentimental shlock. Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

It is a laborious, sentimental drama featuring a self-parodic performance from Drew Barrymore, based on a TV news event that briefly gripped the US in 1988. Big Miracle ? review 2012-02-09T22:36:01Z

The plays were dutifully faithful to the books; the films often made the endings softer or more sentimental. Beyond ‘Wonka’: They Want Every Kid to Know Roald Dahl’s World 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Obviously, it takes work to avoid the trite and sentimental with such a hearts-and-flowers subject. 'Making Babies': into the unknown country of motherhood 2012-05-09T21:13:05Z

But Luhrmann’s sense of history is too muddled and sentimental to give the gestures that kind of weight. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a sentimental book in a lot of ways, but sentiment’s a part of life. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z

“She may not have had the same sentimental feelings as I have about every and any drawing that your kids make,” she said. A Child’s Drawing Tucked in an Agatha Christie Book Is Its Own Mystery 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Jackson, the subject of an excellent recent biography by Ruth Franklin, is much too interesting to succumb to the dull, sentimental moralizing of mainstream moviemaking. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

I’ve come to believe one can take the sentimental temperature of a cultural moment by looking at its novels’ heroines. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

With David Attenborough back at the helm, this was BBC wildlife film-making at its best: heartfelt, but just the right side of sentimental. TV Review: Mistresses and Natural World 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z

Eichmann, as portrayed by Kingsley, has a fierce but narrow intelligence, a warped but strong sentimental streak. Review: “Operation Finale” and the Popular Understanding of Adolf Eichmann 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

One that has caught my eye, possibly for sentimental reasons, is a 30th anniversary showing of baby boomer classic The Big Chill. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z

Her images run the gamut from action shots to sentimental “Friday Night Lights”-style views of the field and bleachers to landscapes in which the game seems incidental. Art In Review: CATHERINE OPIE: ?High School Football? 2012-03-29T21:55:28Z

Thankfully much of his debut album, Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, is sincere rather than sentimental. New music: Benjamin Francis Leftwich ? Atlas Hands (Mike Skinner remix) 2011-07-26T10:34:00Z

Not waiting, hoping, and praying like a sentimental mother, mothering for these women means fighting: mouthing off, making men beg, shooting when trouble comes to town, protecting ourselves and our children by any means necessary. Beyoncé's "Daddy Issues" and the powerful history of black country mothers 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

There is a distinctly serious, even sentimental twinge to the movie, particularly at the end. The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best – review 2012-07-19T20:50:01Z

Flower Boy, his fourth studio album, is a welcome surprise: a focused, sentimental statement of purpose. Tyler, the Creator Opens Up 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Fisher, however, would not want fans to get too sentimental, Hamill said. Leia leads resistance in Carrie Fisher's final 'Star Wars' film 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

There is something very sentimental in the comedy, and despite the notional daring of the subject matter, it is a very conservative and complacent film. Loose Cannons ? review 2010-12-16T23:16:00Z

“I like the QR codes because you can add more information to them, but there is something a little sentimental about the older Haggadot,” she said. Why Is This Night Different? (See QR Code.) 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

I grew fond of them both as I read this generous and meticulous book, and I write this review now with a sentimental tear in my eye. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

That they inspire sentimental reverie on the part of the audience? The Beach Boys musical: wouldn't it be awful? 2010-10-04T14:09:00Z

He thinks a lot about what Warren Zevon used to call sentimental hygiene. Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

We have rocking songs and some really sentimental songs. Seattle band The Cave Singers celebrates new album 'No Witch' 2011-04-21T21:51:10Z

A random TikToker, feeling sentimental, has a thought about Charli and decides to express it by filming themselves curled up in bed with a pensive look on their face. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

It turns sentimental now and then, but it knows — Mr. Carrey knows — that what the audience wants from him is silliness. | 'Mr. Popper?s Penguins': A Home Invasion by the Antarcticans 2011-06-16T22:03:05Z

But like Mrs. Lovett, she makes do to get through, and her musical performance becomes yet another expression of a vicious, sentimental and determined little hypocrite’s character. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

Last night Riz Rollins saved my life Now that I listen to this song again, I realize what a sentimental mood I was in last night — it was Mother's Day, after all. Last night Riz Rollins saved my life 2012-05-14T14:11:08Z

Our culture’s sentimental attachment to stories of young women about to bloom is strong. “Little Women” and the Marmee Problem 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

But in its flexibility and congeniality, the Pro Arte performance struck closer to the work’s sentimental core. Music Review: Pro Arte Quartet Performs at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-14T22:22:00Z

“Impossible Planet,” about an elderly woman booking a space cruise to visit a dead Earth, is moving if a smidge sentimental. Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The narrative had gotten stuck in a kind of sentimental default. Visiting an ancestral home is more meaningful than visiting an ancestral investment property, no?” A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

This evening sees the final episode of This Is Us, Dan Fogelman’s unashamedly sentimental paean to families in all their messy, emotional and often hilarious reality. This Is Us: the TV show that lit up America – then left the whole world cold 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

AS the daughter of divorced parents, I wasn’t sentimental about weddings or marriage. Modern Love: A Little Lint and Suddenly You?re Bridezilla 2011-03-31T22:20:32Z

That summing up would probably be too sentimental for Maxwell, who carefully resists the clichés of uplift and consolation. ‘Queens Row’ Review: Richard Maxwell on Life After Doomsday 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

And as the site has evolved, shifting its focus to more personal and sentimental confessions, more prominent contributors have joined the conversation. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

I love classical music passionately, but Bernstein’s sentimental credo—and Hawke’s sentimental montage—make me yearn to hear the Sex Pistols. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Memories and hallucinations accompany his painful, sentimental journey. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Udo Kier, on His Own and Fabulous 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

His first essay in Zero argued forcefully against the idea of the protest novel, claiming, among other things, that it was inherently sentimental, and therefore dishonest. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z

But real sadness - sadness that isn't cloying or sentimental - is the hardest thing to convey. Pregnant pause 2011-06-03T07:50:38Z

That quality shines even in an uneven presentation like Gordon Greenberg’s production for Prospect Theater Company, in which the sociological too often gives way to the sentimental. Theater Review: Studs Terkel’s ‘Working’ is Recycled Again for the Stage 2012-12-18T20:23:48Z

“Black Butterflies” mostly avoids the sentimental cliché of the artist as anguished martyr and is content to be a harrowing psychological drama. Movie Review: ?Black Butterflies,? a Biopic About the Poet Ingrid Jonker 2012-03-02T00:19:39Z

The director Michael Tully’s wan and sentimental period drama, set in Ocean City, Maryland, in the summer of 1985, feels like a hard-edged filmmaker’s self-conscious embrace of his gentler side. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

And them, oddly, the music went downtempo and sentimental as the video cut to a series of servicemen and women saying hello to their families from far-flung bases around the world. Bruno Mars Injects Soul into the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2014-02-03T01:31:22Z

Now, the exuberant, sentimental esprit of “Bojangles,” from its impassioned sex scenes to its moments of tender longing, puts it in constant jeopardy of seeming maudlin or, worse, a little corny. ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Were you feeling any more sentimental that particular show with everything going on? Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters horror movie ‘Studio 666,’ emotional weight of Seattle returns 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

He added, “It is faithful to the sentimental tale that is its source.” Encores! Season Will Feature Sondheim and '1776' 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine the author herself would have approved of the documentary’s flowery narration and sentimental acoustic score. ‘Loving Highsmith’ Review: The Patricia You Didn’t Know 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Art also held uneasy mysteries, the seeds of a moral and sentimental education. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

Enchanting but never sentimental, this novel is the story of an artist’s transcendence over the superstitions, betrayals and brutality of his time. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Charles Dickens was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the sentimental city; he makes the reader empathise with Victorian London, charting its emotional geography as much as its physical. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

And “Frank” is resolutely honest about the relationship between its title character’s gifts and his illness, avoiding facile explanations or sentimental equations. ‘Frank,’ About an Offbeat Band and Its Eccentric Leader 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Specialising in low-life morality tales and conjuring, with Hogarthian relish, a socially realistic world, his best work is more complete and less cloyingly sentimental than the vast majority of his better-known American counterparts. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

In fact, Vineland was less than 400 pages long, largely American rather than international in its settings, realistic in style for long stretches, and relatively earnest, even sentimental, compared with what Pynchon had previously written. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

Instead, in “My Golden Days,” Desplechin packages his emotional complacency and unquestioningly sentimental attachments in a creamy professionalism of the image. Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The fine traditions of this country are being eroded by the sentimental cultural hegemony that insists any feeling is by definition both true and something to be nurtured. Digested read: Spoilt rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 2010-08-30T21:29:00Z

Mr. Wilson is sentimental about the original French commission and would love for the final performances to be at the Bastille Opera. ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z

“This sounds really sentimental, but I think that there was already deep affection — love — I was totally smitten,” Mr. MacLachlan said. Ice Cream Topped with Easy Conversation 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

I'm reputed to be a lightly apparelled author, drunk on smiley sentimental literature. The cry of my conscience about my family's Nazi collaboration 2011-01-12T08:30:01Z

It is of course the older image, the regressive, patronising, sentimental Victorian painting of the "poor". Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z

They work toward making the show a traditional, sentimental, inspirational saga. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Still, the new show “Falling for Eve,” which recounts the early days of biblical creation in alternately jokey and sentimental fashion, makes for a numbingly bland 90 minutes of musical theater. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z

It’s sentimental and carries some psychological freight of its own. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

The debut of UK director Simon West, it is a thundering action blowout so loud, haywire and sentimental that – in perhaps the ultimate backhanded compliment – it is often misidentified as a Michael Bay movie. Muscles, mullets and Malkovich: has Con Air got even weirder with age? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Ray Stevens is known for singing zany hits like “The Streak,” but also sentimental ones like “Everything Is Beautiful.” Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens to join Country Hall of Fame 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The play goes a bit saggy and sentimental at its end. 'Pitbulls' at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

That didn't stop the stark, sentimental and somewhat contrived indie from being nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z

And Bingley emerges as a sentimental fool, given to crying fits: The “gush from his eyes would surely have been sufficient to bathe a medium-sized dog: a corgi or, perhaps, a Border collie.” Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Under the clever supervision” of Mr. Wilder, “the idea is run into a gleeful, tender and even sentimental film,” Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Friday 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

I’m sorry, but in the season of “Girls” a secondhand, sentimental sex comedy, however well-meaning, is not going to cut it. Movie Review: Daryl Wein’s ‘Lola Versus’ With Greta Gerwig 2012-06-07T22:39:20Z

And you are being a little disingenuous by ignoring the sentimental value of baby gifts from a loving grandmother. Do I Really Have to Tip? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And of course we laugh and cringe along with everyone else in the movie right up until the sentimental ending, where fraternal affection is affirmed, and Jill finds romantic love as well. | 'Jack and Jill': Adam Sandler in ?Jack and Jill? - Review 2011-11-10T23:57:03Z

Although the show’s title speaks to an antiquated Cinderella fantasy of marrying a rich man, Ms. Stanger’s actual message is more sentimental than materialistic. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z

Her sentimental favorite gown, though, was probably the one she wore to her first Globes in 2010: a black, strapless Oscar de la Renta with a full skirt. Glee's Lea Michele fills closet with Candie's 2012-01-25T16:52:08Z

One of the great shocks of my life was discovering how sentimental I am. Howard Jacobson: ‘The later you marry the better. Sixty is ideal' 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Has it finished its final season so now everyone feels all sentimental about it? The Emmys Have an Oscar Problem 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

In the evening, pre-television, they sat side by side on one bed and read fotoromanzi, sentimental comic books, except instead of drawings there were photographs of actors miming the stories. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

As the Crüe draws to a close, do you find yourself looking back and feeling sentimental? Nikki Sixx Says Goodbye for Good: Inside the End of Motley Crüe 2014-02-05T15:00:47Z

When the tunes turn sentimental, Liliane goes it alone—with a look, or a pair of looks, into the camera that are defiant, proud, intimate, complicit. Cultural Clicks: “Game of Thrones” Art, FKA Twigs, and Ice-Cream-Themed K-Pop 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

A comedy that is sharp but not cruel, a drama that is poignant but not sentimental, an informative and unflinching look at fertility treatments — “Private Life” is all those things. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s also an opportunity to contribute to a company that has sentimental and nostalgic meaning. Would You Work for Nothing at Disney? 10,000 Superfans Applied 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Published in 2005, the book was admired by some critics but excoriated by others who found it exploitive or overly sentimental. Just Close Enough for an Oscar Nod? 2011-12-19T23:22:47Z

And far too much in “Our Idiot Brother” is much too easy, including the soft, sentimental indulgence it lavishes on Ned and the satirical barbs it flings at his sisters. | 'Our Idiot Brother': ?Our Idiot Brother,? Starring Paul Rudd - Review 2011-08-25T23:52:36Z

Brooks is by turns funny, ironic, sentimental and nostalgic. Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

After several episodes, you may find you’d rather watch a show where appraisers just shock people with the value of their sentimental objects without getting into the darker aspects of their emotional life. Divorce TV: Bravo's Untying the Knot 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Behrman, “The Assembled Parties” also suggests those classic sentimental education novels in which young, middle-class outsiders are thrust into the exotic realms of an opulent but dying social order. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z

"Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means." What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z

You would assume Glenn Close would be the sentimental favourite for The Wife. Oscars 2019: predictions, timetable and all you need to know for the big night 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

She began freelancing in 1945, and a year later won her first Oscar in "To Each His Own," a sentimental melodrama about unwed motherhood. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

Rattigan allows himself one sentimental piece of plotting; and the final act of renunciation has strong echoes of A Tale of Two Cities, which he and Gielgud had adapted in 1935. Flare Path ? review 2011-03-13T14:33:52Z

A strange few weeks of sentimental suspension followed their departure, between the tough goodbyes already said and the others, to my parents and sister, still to come. Rosh Hashanah with Miles Davis 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

It is written all over Sarah when she bursts through the door in Charles Evered’s “Class,” an alluring if sentimental one-act drama having its New York premiere at the Penguin Rep Theater. | Stony Point: A Review of ‘Class,’ at Penguin Rep Theater 2013-05-24T23:56:26Z

But Donell still feels a loyalty to Tre, and perhaps for sentimental reasons has decided to stop by and work out on the morning before his most important professional fight. In ‘The Opponent,’ a Boxer and Trainer Square Off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Have the first two frames told us a sentimental lie? Elliott Erwitt's law of intended consequences 2011-02-20T00:05:35Z

These comedies from the 1980s of plucky, sassy working-class women – tidily shaped, efficient exercises in sentimental button-pushing — have never been personal favorites of mine. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z

Far from being sentimental about the world, Yi remembered feeling removed from nature as a child in suburban Southern California. The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

A wedding dress and one or two other items are certainly okay to keep for sentimental reasons, but you can’t keep everything just because it reminds you of something. Perspective | 4 bad reasons to keep clothes you don’t wear 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

But then, a few minutes into the video, Ms. Kim pivots unexpectedly, growing sentimental about being a mother and about womanhood. Lessons From a Homebody 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

“It is 100 percent sentimental,” Chad said of the big Filipino breakfast. For These Brothers, the Real Thanksgiving Feast Is a Filipino Breakfast 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

If the worldwide Irish diaspora viewed the Troubles through a prism of nostalgic and sentimental nationalism, the conflict also had dangerous undertones of radical internationalism. Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Joyce’s novel, a sentimental nominee for this year’s Man Booker Prize, has a premise that is simple and twee. Books of The Times: ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ by Rachel Joyce 2012-07-29T21:26:22Z

For me, it means a nice sentimental song, something that connects with me emotionally. Alan Cumming explains why he loves singing sappy songs, from Sondheim to Miley Cyrus 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Those 1970s songs are very much of their time yet also ageless, and they embrace dramatic storytelling seasoned with a touch of unabashed sentiment that some may dismiss as sentimental. Review: In ‘Harmony,’ a Band’s Success Collides With History 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

The rest of the event, held at Cipriani 42nd Street, was filled with tributes and sentimental celebrations for many of the year’s critically lauded films. Robert De Niro’s Anti-Trump Screed and Meryl Streep’s Ode to Men 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Some outfits were stone encrusted; others were made in what looked like polyester organza blotted with flowers commonly associated with a sentimental greeting card, or a shower curtain. On the Runway Blog: In London, Burberry Hints at a Sports-Couture Theme 2011-09-19T21:24:54Z

A few details have been blurred, but the cloying atmosphere of safe-for-TV dating, neatly packaged women, and sentimental mush is instantly recognizable. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

I still find there is something unabashed and undeniable about it, which, after all these years, makes me feel almost a little sentimental. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

She sees the same pamphlet Velvet sees: “It was sentimental and flattering to white vanity and manipulative as hell,” Ginger says. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

In a world where gadgets and software packages are constantly being reinvented, earlier phases of modernity are relegated to a sentimental past. Jim'll Paint It 2013-03-06T13:45:56Z

More than any other recent late-night finale, I’m hearing from viewers who are not just sentimental about “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” coming to an end, they are gravely concerned. Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

On “Wedding Song,” the album’s last track, Karen finds herself amongst angels, fulfilling the sentimental need for YYYs fans and giving her the chance yet again to bare her heart. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z

But "Future Past" also has a sentimental streak, which translates to more than a few self-referential moments or inspiration nods. Falling for Duran Duran's "Future Past," which reflects the band's signature ingenuity and sentiment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

The concept — a middle-aged, insecure man-child whose narcissism and disdain for the world are undercut, and given a kind of backhanded nobility, by his sentimental attachment to baseball — holds up. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

He is a very good musician and, by all accounts, an inventive if sentimental songwriter. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

I know Mike would have had no use for such sentimental thoughts, but it made me feel better and I wanted to share it with you.” Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

Foster and Hanks make this increasingly sentimental film go down easy. As "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks' gruff yet noble curmudgeon will warm your heart 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Barnes’s view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Removing the familiar melody excises the kitsch, but the message remains simple and sentimental, if still probably necessary. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

However, lest we get sentimental, the book is ornamented with twirled cancer-memorial ribbons, cut short at both ends. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

You might expect such a book — and its corresponding audiobook, read by O’Brien himself — cobbled together from scraps of pride and dread, to be something of a mess: scattershot, sentimental, even sappy. Tim O’Brien, a Veteran of War and Fatherhood, Opens Up to His Sons 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Ward is not very sentimental about his subject matter. Once upon a time, rock-and-roll was strange, wild and dangerous 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a portrait of an intellectual and sentimental education that offers almost unseemly pleasure. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Then at the last minute it swerves again, with a jarringly sentimental reunion and visit to the scene of the killing that’s straight out of the feel-good branch of reality TV. Review: In ‘Bobby Kennedy for President,’ a Don Draper of Politics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

As Aksel says, “I’ve spent my life doing that — collecting all that stuff,” but not because of its monetary or even its sentimental value. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Huge corporate buildings don't tend to bring out the sentimental in me, but it's quite an experience, eyeballing the New York skyline with this self-made master of the universe. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

His teammates, though, suffer from a shamelessly commercial and damply sentimental script that tries to cram too many tales of woe into a single package. ‘Sink or Swim’ Review: Pool Boys 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Feeling a sentimental impulse to see his home town again, Tim drags a reluctant Virginia along, just as the novel starts to accelerate in a new and even darker direction. New life for a noir masterpiece: ‘Black Wings Has My Angel’ 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

"The Audience" is a clever, deft and sentimental play that has humor, pathos and even live corgis. Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience' 2013-03-06T12:26:09Z

My father, sentimental to the end, had carefully saved it and stored it in the basement for thirty, forty years. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z

As a certified sentimental sap, raised by parents whose only good days were the old ones, I had never thought of glorifying the past as potentially problematic. Closing Up Shop on a Marriage 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Yet it softens the music’s hard edges; the nostalgic episodes, though lovely, sound a little more sentimental when orchestrated. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

“I was sitting down and thought in a sentimental moment: This is an American wine and I love it.” Finding the Heart of Zinfandel 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Most self-help books are written by Americans of the most sentimental and unctuous sort. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z

It’s an especially gratifying watch, I’d imagine, for people who survived the worst of the tantrum years, yet remain sentimental about the experience. Perspective | All those reality shows you loved about people’s weight, marriage and kids? They’re back — and nicer. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a laugh line, defanging or absorbing what might otherwise seem sentimental. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

These gimmicks, however, do not mask the thin, superficial writing, which relies on blandly sentimental monologues and an assortment of patriotic war-flick clichés. ‘Foxhole’ Review: A History of Violence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

As usual, the earthy antics are offset by a sentimental streak as thick as your arm. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-28T08:00:02Z

But then Jan abruptly switched gears, arbitrarily testing other performance modes, perhaps in an attempt to avoid being overly confessional or sentimental. Grasping for Dad's story in 'The Institute of Memory (TIMe)' 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

But Sweet’s pictures are neither sentimental nor pathetic. An Elegy for the Jewish Retirees of Miami Beach 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Excessive garishness" and "sentimentality" are dismissals that reveal more about the speaker than the object: so you fear the garish and shun the sentimental? Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z

“Children of Hiroshima,” commissioned by the Japan Teachers Union and based on a compilation of testimonies by a university professor, Arata Osada, combines documentary naturalism with lyrical and frankly sentimental passages. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z

“To be sentimental is to be kitsch, phony, exaggerated, manipulative, self-indulgent, hypocritical, cheap and clichéd. It is the art of religious dupes, conservative apologists and corporate stooges.” People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

He wrote for Olly Murs, One Direction and Taylor Swift as he slowly built a large audience for his own charismatically sentimental songs, sung confidingly, containing strong images and desires. Popcast: Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, British Pop Imports 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

And the script becomes dutifully sentimental at the end with characters forced to say things like “You’re more than a drug dealer. You’re my friend, my best friend.” ‘Cocaine Bear’ Review: She Never Forgets Her Lines 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

So my reasons for translating “Un Roman Sentimental” were, you could say, purely sentimental. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

In doing so, he changed playwriting from sentimental entertainment to a serious art form. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

The point, in any case, is to stop holding movies up to a vague, sentimental standard of what they once were and try to understand them as they actually are. The Oscars Are a Mess. Let’s Make Them Messier. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Craig's novel is perhaps the most obviously sentimental, although she tells her story with such a fine touch that it never descends into mawkishness. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z

The postwar Crosby is a fascinating figure; in a way he’s the upbeat, gently sentimental antidote to the doomed heroes of the films noirs then filling American screens. DVDs: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know 2010-12-25T03:53:01Z

But "Fun Home" has caught fire for a simple reason: It is deeply moving without being in the least sentimental or pandering. Take note of these four musicals for a Tony, then vote for 'Fun Home' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bocelli seemed to relax during the second set, singing with greater ease and expressiveness in sentimental Neapolitan songs and selections from “My Christmas.” Music Review: Star Tenor Starts a Tour, Minus the Muppets 2010-12-03T17:16:00Z

“For such a sentimental bird it is ripe, rich and delicious to raid such a nest.” Max Porter's debut 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' soars with complexity 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

“They’re sentimental and fit into the hygienic sentimentality that spilled over in the early twentieth century from the Victorian period,” Nagoski said. Humanity’s Deepest Longings, Found in a Bird’s Song 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

If you like the combination of violent action, sentimental fantasy, literary pretension and periodic slapstick humor that “Reprisal” offers, you may enjoy it well enough. ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Sylvester Stallone directed parts two, three, four and six of his own Rocky series, amplifying his sentimental fondness for the title character each time. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“This Is Us,” the unapologetically sentimental family drama, was the breakout hit of the year on broadcast television. Emmys 2017: What to Watch For 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

That might not be a bad ratings calculation in our current trying times; sentimental escapism was a dominant theme among this week’s best picture Oscar nominees. | 'Touch': In ?Touch,? Kiefer Sutherland Plays a Single Dad - Review 2012-01-25T00:38:52Z

Maybe I was being sentimental, but all that ’60s stuff evaporated. Music We Loved and Lost in 2013 2013-12-31T02:51:09Z

The documentary begins on a sentimental note, as Mr. Imhoof discusses his clan’s history of raising a hardy Alpine breed of black bee. Movie Review: ‘More Than Honey,’ a Documentary by Markus Imhoof 2013-06-11T22:11:19Z

DJ is very sentimental and is very into Christmas. Dan Savage at Midlife: ‘It’s ... “grawful”?’ 2013-05-26T01:41:37Z

I didn’t want a typical sentimental Hollywood ending. Jojo Moyes talks about the big-screen version of ‘Me Before You’ 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Biblical scenes tapped into a sentimental and pastoral Germanic tradition, he notes, while the portraits of girls resembled 1920s flappers. So Valuable, It Could Almost Be Real 2013-12-31T23:14:12Z

It’s just a sentimental attachment to a hardcover book that got her through many years; it still has plenty of good words in it. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Thorpe suggests painting or decoupaging a simple desk organizer, adding a few sentimental words, such as "Worth a thousand words," with stencils or scrapbook letters, and grouping matted photos on top of that. Work space art: Family photos promoted 2010-09-22T17:19:00Z

How could it be, when the sentimental attachment to identity of any sort is precisely its boogeyman? Review: In ‘The Doctor,’ a Rare Case of Physician, Harm Thyself 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

I am very sentimental and this hurts me deeply. Don’t play the grandmother name game 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Even his sentimental concern for children in general, and his own family in particular, doesn't tell us that much about him. The Iceman – review 2012-08-30T14:22:32Z

In the post-“Hamilton” era now upon us, “A Bronx Tale” feels conventional: a sentimental tale of a man’s moral awakening combined with ear-friendly music. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

For a very long time, this was taken not as a self-serving fantasy but as a token of honesty, or freedom from sentimental conceptions of domestic love. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

And his supposed linguistic skills look like a dangerous, sentimental, anthropomorphic illusion. Project Nim ? review 2011-08-11T21:09:00Z

It's a slow-burner, perhaps overly sentimental, but there are few comics bold or talented enough to make this sort of television. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

There's just one thing — he is a very sentimental hoarder. Perspective | Ask Amy: Housemate wants to ‘Kondo’ the kitchen 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

It turns out that while this work has the intellectual vigor we expect of Ms. Churchill, it may also be her most sentimental play. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z

Combining traditional folk sounds with modern hip-hop, the song is sentimental and upbeat at the same time. How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win) 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

As the traditional containers disappear, people may become even more sentimental about them, just as they have with vintage Pyrex bowls and vinyl records. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

A widely praised film about a wayward media mogul — with genius galore, but no central sympathetic character — was up against a sentimental, well-wrought family drama set in the U.K. After SAG Awards, Why Oscar-Winner Guessing Game Is Over 2011-02-21T14:05:00Z

It is arch comedy; it is sentimental nostalgia; it is satirical; it is sincere; it is Hollywood story and middle-age story and sexcapade and horror story. On TV, You Can Go Home Again. But It’s Weird. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Yet nothing gothic or sentimental taints the chilly haunting. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z

Ingres hovers protectively in the background; it’s clear that he was not originally part of the composition, but added the self-portrait as a sentimental afterthought. Art Review: ?Ingres at the Morgan,? Drawings and Letters - Review 2011-09-08T22:20:27Z

He nails a bedrock truth about “Ulysses,” to wit: “For all its obscurities, Joyce’s book is more sentimental than erudite, more elemental than cerebral.” Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Wilson — it’s not clear if that’s his first or last name — is a misanthrope with a sentimental streak, a guy whose grouchiness is leavened by oddball touches of Minnesota Nice. Review: ‘Wilson,’ With Woody Harrelson as a Misanthrope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The movie is predictably sentimental at its root, but it’s also meant to be comedy, partly resting on Mr. Williams’s energetic but failed attempt to play a jerk. Robin Williams Stars in ‘The Angriest Man in Brooklyn’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yet there is nothing sentimental, mean or vindictive in Wolff's portrait of his father. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

By the end, on the shamelessly sentimental "Remember Me," he contemplates his legacy singing to his 4-year-old son. Review: Earle's album finds reason for optimism 2013-04-15T19:16:05Z

“Which is maybe strange since the show is kind of sentimental.” King Joffrey Is Coming. But Only to Act in a Play. 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

It was as sentimental as a sunset, but just as affecting. Downtown Dance Festival's Echoes of Pete Seeger 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

I’m a little sentimental about them, I guess. A Tour of Don Winslow’s Ranch in Southern California 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

I bought this powerful machine when I was pregnant with my son, who has just turned 35 years old, so it has a sentimental as well as practical role in my kitchen. 'I bought this mixer when I was pregnant. My son is now 35': Guardian readers on the appliances that just won’t quit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

They’re weak points from opposite poles, the first arch, the second sentimental. Review: Tortoise Revisits Its Elusive Identity on ‘The Catastrophist’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Disaster movies in the Spielbergian tradition customarily become sentimental melodramas about fatherhood, where a tsunami or alien invasion is the backdrop for a damaged family recovering its soul. Pick of the week: A pandemic from which even Gwyneth isn't safe 2011-09-09T00:39:00Z

Other times, it's so sentimental that, again, it's hard to take it at face value. Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review 2012-09-28T21:54:01Z

They are puffy and sentimental, the cinematic equivalent of a cloying dessert following an otherwise well-prepared meal. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

But the new work rests in an awkwardly sentimental place because — at least for now — the dances rarely escape the lyrics. Dance Review: Tracing Roots of Belief Across a Quarter-Century 2011-02-10T00:15:05Z

All of this leads Pamuk into some interesting re-evaluations of Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Dickens as he explores the oscillations between "naive" and "sentimental" and the search for an equilibrium between these two poles. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

Parts of the script struck her as inappropriately sentimental. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z

Love isn’t some sentimental thing, it’s about recognising this miracle for what it is, and learning from it for the rest of our lives.” Let’s talk about intimacy – and why it makes for better love and sex 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

They cite anthropological curiosity, sentimental attachment, or the lure of a lost weekend. The Glorious Inconsistency of the Grateful Dead 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But when Harper arrives on the scene, barking angrily at her father in Russian, the play devolves into a self-consciously quirky and ultimately sentimental story of hard-won healing between uncommunicative father and wounded daughter. | 'Close Up Space': ?Close Up Space,? With David Hyde Pierce - Review 2011-12-20T03:01:08Z

An audience charmer peddling romantic hokum, the play is satisfying despite being scarcely credible and touchingly sweet even when flagrantly sentimental. John Patrick Shanley's 'Outside Mullingar' is just the thing for a happy cry 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Capra made the sentimental "It's a Wonderful Life" in 1946 which, while now regarded as a classic favorite, was a huge flop and crushed his spirit. 'Five Came Back' and changed Hollywood's depiction of war 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

And Val, shrewd and ruthless but with an unexpectedly sentimental streak, may soon be paroled ... and may discover that Heloise was the one who turned him in. 'And When She Was Good': Laura Lippman at 'top of her game' 2012-08-16T20:53:04Z

While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z

Though a mother’s work is never done, Jane Anderson’s “robustly sentimental” play about the woman who raised Joan of Arc will soon be. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Now that my lei had been added to her collection, I was feeling shucked and sentimental. Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The Goebbels family was apparently the epitome of cloyingly sentimental Nazi values. Behind closed doors 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mikkelsen embodies this unapologetic survival instinct, and he’s not impressed with his sentimental partner. ‘Against the Ice’ Review: Snow Buddies 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

While elaborately decorated boxes of chocolates had existed for at least a century, it was a sentimental Englishman who first connected them to Valentine's Day. The Victorian origins of the heart-shaped chocolate box 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Whether addressing homelessness or domestic abuse or the plight of child warriors in Northern Uganda, many of the pieces the dancers perform offer a sentimental experience for viewers. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

But Hurwitz bravely – and rightly – eschewed knocking out a sentimental rehash of the show's best-loved catchphrases on autopilot. Arrested Development season four review: one for the fans 2013-05-30T10:47:00Z

Its clash of arrested adolescence and premature old age is also more openly sentimental, but the writing has enough of an edge to balance it out. ‘Marry Me’ on NBC and ‘Uncle’ on DirecTV 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Such efforts by Mr. Clarke to inflate Kennedy’s achievements distract from his actual accomplishments and influence, and they also make this intermittently interesting volume feel like a sentimental work of hagiography. Books of The Times: ‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke 2013-08-12T21:23:16Z

“I didn’t buy the stuff because it was Carol Channing, the Broadway actress. I bought it because it was very sentimental on a lot of levels for me.” Goodbye, Dolly: With Their Bids, Fans Hold Onto Carol Channing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s anyone who’s that good, who’s got that amount of integrity — both on and off screen — and I knew she wouldn’t be patronizing or sentimental about a working-class mother in this situation. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The idea of a play based on such exchanges sounded awful, an occasion for sentimental slush or snarky camp. Review: Dear Audiences of ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ Prepare to Cry 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It is also about correcting, not erasing, a sentimental, factually inaccurate, and politically toxic historical narrative of the South and the Civil War. We want Robert E. Lee’s name off our school — and in return, we were greeted with hateful Internet trolling 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

“The Night Before” depicts pop-cultural effluvia as a defining force of social identification and personal experience, and contrasts it with the sentimental but flimsy commitment to the rites and doctrines of organized religion. “The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

I reminisced about the sentimental songs I enjoyed when I was a teenager … the ones I played when I experienced a girlfriend for the first time. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

His serenity is also troubled by a chance encounter with a former wartime shipmate whose sentimental reminiscences spark jingoistic bombast and earnest regret. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

And the inevitable sentimental journey into lesson-learning gets lost in swamps of well-meaning equivocation. ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

A long-running sentimental hit at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village a quarter-century ago, it was surely never meant to bear the weight of Broadway. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z

Some people love many objects around, some people are very sentimental about things. 'Mess' author straightens out readers about clutter and hoarding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Still, I would guess that most of us turn to far more sentimental verse when confronting adversity or seeking comfort. Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

The hazy, sentimental lens of nostalgia can make even the pretty bad delicious, in an ironic, self-aware way. Why Do We Care So Much About Diana’s Dresses? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

A: A project like this, with great sentimental value, warrants the help of a professional conservator who specializes in preserving works on paper. How to preserve a notebook that has sentimental value 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s not unmoving, exactly, but all a little synthetic — less like a vintage Roth narrative than like a very well-executed O. Henry story, complete with a deliberately ironic plot twist and a sentimental outcome. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z

In mourning the lost possibilities of Mercy’s life, Tyler takes aim at a sentimental trope deeply embedded in American culture. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a view that might be dismissed as romantic or sentimental. In Oregon Wine Country, One Farmer’s Battle to Save the Soil 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

A Robin Hood figure polarizes England in “The Duke,” an ambling, sentimental account of the 1961 heist of Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. ‘The Duke’ Review: Suspect’s 61 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

This sentimental impulse led, in 1623, to the First Folio — Mays calls it “the most important secular book in the English language” — a large-sized edition with a print run of around 750 copies. ‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea Mays 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The way it went about doing this, by choosing to end on a childlike note of hopeful ambiguity, was sentimental in the extreme. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

In “Other Criteria” he declared, “Considerations of ‘human interest’ belong in the criticism of modernist art not because we are incurably sentimental about humanity, but because it is art we are talking about.” Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z

A: Given the high sentimental value of your baby sweater, you might want to start by contacting a professional conservator who specializes in treatment of textiles. How to remove a stain from a cherished old baby sweater 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

I ask him if he ever feels the need to check himself from becoming overly sentimental. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z

But even in his prime, his films were chastised as sentimental and out of touch. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

There’s a kindness to her writing, a sort of authorial gentleness; though never saccharine or sentimental, we see the goodness in the people she creates. ‘The Arsonist’: the passage of homecoming in a small town 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Instead of connecting “Million Dollar Arm” to the sentimental, mythological traditions of baseball lore, it only emphasizes the vast, unbridgeable gap between then and now. Jon Hamm’s “Million Dollar Arm” and the slow death of the sports movie 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

But she is always very much present for Mari, who dotes on Shannan, perhaps only now as a sentimental fantasy. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Laced with Stoppard's characteristic wit, the play becomes a study in Henry's sentimental education. Review 2010-04-21T23:44:00Z

Which is not to suggest that this film is a sentimental or softheaded fable. In ‘Bird People,’ Two Unhappy Souls Cut Their Chains 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Gervais’s show may be even more morally didactic; it has a sentimental, even maudlin streak that has become all the more pronounced in his later comedies, like “After Life.” How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

In fact, at the start of the book he is hired by a woman who wants him to find a lost ring that supposedly has great sentimental value. Books of The Times: ?What It Was? and ?Chalk Girl,? Crime Novels - Review 2012-01-22T23:06:34Z

It’s not easy to lose sentimental possessions or face economic uncertainties. The mental health impact of major disasters like Harvey and Irma 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Alcott scholar Daniel Shealy says that “Aunt Nellie’s Diary” reflects what the author called her sentimental phase, her early immersion in such British authors as Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Early, rarely seen Alcott story published in Strand Magazine 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

This year though Mr. Arthus-Bertrand is determined to convert American audiences to his sentimental vision of the environment. For a Filmmaker, the Green Things in Life Are Free 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z

The Duggan-Cronin photographs, many of them spare and beautiful, perpetuate an old, sentimental view of Africans as being, by definition, rural, tradition-bound, on the verge of extinction. Art In Review: ‘DISTANCE AND DESIRE’: ‘Encounters With the African Archive, Part I: Santu Mofokeng and A. M. Duggan-Cronin’ 2012-09-20T20:15:51Z

The books tend to round off with a sentimental farewell and a promise from Munn to set the record straight. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

K-pop is a particular style of South Korean popular music that’s distinguishable from other popular forms of Korean music, such as trot and sentimental ballads. How Korean boy band BTS toppled Asian stereotypes — and took America by storm 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The technology also had a tendency to get sappy, leading him to direct it to “stop being sentimental.” A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

This sentimental approach is at the heart of the book. Heavens above 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Put next to the best films in the series, “Only Yesterday” is a bit gentle and sentimental, and its ending, set to a Japanese version of “The Rose,” may have you simultaneously crying and groaning. Critic?s Notebook: Miyazaki, Takahata and Studio Ghibli at IFC Center 2011-12-15T23:37:35Z

It exchanges the schematic ease of the sentimental for the uncharted depths of the emotional. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The characters in “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” were lovable and horrible, but almost never sentimental. Review: Matt Groening Enters the Netflix Age With ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The reader begins each new story with concern for the main character; he is like one of those young men in 19th-century French fiction setting out to receive his sentimental education. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

At the lower end is a thunderous growl, at once heroic and ominous, that transforms his signature song, “The Impossible Dream,” from sentimental kitsch to an anthem of demonic obsession. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway Songbook at Town Hall 2010-04-18T22:13:00Z

But he made a point of not seeming a victim, not wanting to be sentimental about things. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Costner plays Jack Dolan as a likably crusty character, but within the larger context of "The Company Men" he's unmistakably a sentimental creation, and almost a supernatural being. "The Company Men": Kevin Costner as working-class Jesus 2011-01-18T23:30:00Z

But they acknowledge that sentimental value plays a big part in their choice of timepiece. Watches That Connect With a History of Exploration 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

However, your actual review made it clear it was not just sentimental. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

The value — musical, sentimental and monetary — of analog synthesizers, however, has been steadily growing since their premature demise in the early years of the Reagan administration. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

When getting rid of sentimental objects such as soft toys, she recommends trying the Japanese purification rite of throwing coarse salt on them to send the spirits on their way. Decluttering guru Marie Kondo is back with more life-changing magic 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

And his use of the Fleet Foxes and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Hello, Young Lovers" on the soundtrack merely underlines the film's sentimental tone. 'Jack Goes Boating': Philip Seymour Hoffman steers sentimental relationship flick 2010-09-23T20:20:00Z

"But this movie does have a quirky tone. It's not gauzy, and it doesn't have that sentimental light that dramas about illness or disability can have." 'The Fault in Our Stars' adds new power to films' 'tear-jerker' label 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Set in Italy’s industrial capital, Turin, during a period when labor unions barely existed, it is insouciant, sentimental, farcical and confounding by turns. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by a seven-piece band, Almond takes us on a sentimental journey from his Southport childhood, remembered in Sandboy, to the sweet taste of success savoured in the triumphant Vanity, Poverty, Revenge. Marc Almond – review 2012-07-10T17:15:01Z

AMBI’s most recent picture, Septembers of Shiraz, a sentimental catastrophe set in Iran that played at the Toronto film festival, was one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year. Memento remake: chance to improve the original or instantly forgettable gaffe? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

This separation allows Mr. Chomet to dodge any Lolita-like complications, yet it also means that the bond remains more vaporously sentimental than deeply felt. | 'The Illusionist': Conjuring a Magical Relationship 2010-12-23T22:41:33Z

To dismiss it as cliched and sentimental holy minimalism is simply wrong. A guide to Arvo Pärt's music 2012-06-18T16:10:26Z

At the end, the dancers frame the older man on each side as he walks slowly upstage, leaving his partner, seated alone and grieving, at the front — a predictable and rather sentimental ending. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

"There is a clinical language to discuss war and a grossly sentimental language." At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

“High Maintenance” has been smart to stay under 20 minutes, though even there the newer, more serious episodes have tended toward the twee and sentimental. Review: ‘Hunting Season’ on Vimeo Starts Second Season 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

His fine-art work, as seen over the past year, is sentimental and studious. What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins Learned from Graffiti 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Along the way, the script emits sentimental jolts with an obvious delight that, for Crowe, seems sincere but exudes contrivance. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

A sentimental view of life as a cul-de-sac hasn’t been virgin territory in world drama at least since Chekhov’s mopey Russians first hit the stage. Review: In ‘Lost Girls,’ Derailed Blue-Collar Lives, With Zingers 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Taking her subject as a known quantity, she opens her book with a sentimental description of a lurid incident from Nesbit’s childhood that haunted the author for the rest of her life. The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

And yet there are many in the downtown dance world who become sentimental at the mention of his early pieces. Critic?s Notebook: In the Mysteries of Everyday Movement, Multilevel Stories 2011-03-06T22:56:33Z

He stole objects that had sentimental value for the victims, like engraved jewelry and class rings. Hunting — and Haunted by — a Serial Killer 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

At the risk of coming off "sentimental," which is considered a great sin among contemporary poets, I'd say this is a book grounded in such passions. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Now, for a host of reasons, these sentimental styles are seen as attractive as a truck farm in Vermont. On the Runway Blog: At Men’s Fashion Week, Back to Babbitt 2013-06-28T14:49:17Z

ON the evening of March 2 in Paris, people were not quite ready to let go of their sentimental baggage regarding so-called genius talent. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

Many pieces are fragile, obsolete, or of little value, except of the sentimental kind. Our lock-and-leave culture: the rise of self-storage and clinging to stuff we hardly use 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

The two Britten arrangements, with their dissonant tonal colors, added some needed variety to a program that leaned sentimental and Romantic. Audience can’t help but show its appreciation for Irish song and opera 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“A Bronx Tale” is certainly not without its formulaic or sentimental aspects. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale’ Explores the Struggle for a Boy’s Soul 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z