Victorian that he was, Wagner could not help viewing Shakespeare's rowdy, devious Elizabethans in a moralistic but sentimental light, sometimes with disarming results.

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In a sardonic reshuffling of classic sentimental tropes, the story ominously turns on the difficulty of getting a goose-liver dinner in Munich on Christmas Eve.

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In the next, he would reject traditional artists' tools in favor of found objects, black tar paper (textured and pebbly and quite iridescent, giving the impression of a midnight sky) or sentimental postcards, eliminating, in a sense, all traces of technique and skill--and even of the artist (some of the "objects" were assembled by carpenters).

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Clint Eastwood is back doing what he's supposed to be doing in "Trouble With the Curve, " a sentimental baseball saga that is the inverse of "Moneyball" in almost every respect and shows the star's still got what it takes to carry a movie home.

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Supported by richly harmonic horns, a sweep of sentimental strings, and his own bluesy piano, Dr. John delivers his lines in a drawl that makes them hard to decipher at times.

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Kanaan was a sentimental favorite after several near-misses in his 11 previous Indy 500s.

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Playing seven roles in this antic yet sentimental comedy (which he also directed), Jerry Lewis makes the camera a prism to break out the divergent, and even conflicting, strands of his own character.

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Fay has sentimental feelings towards the area since he grew up in Findlay, Ohio and his parents have a lake house in Jackson, Michigan.

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Mr Szymanski, a Scunthorpe United fan, insists that practical rather than sentimental concerns led him to test this idea in the English football leagues.

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