He said he's not a sentimental person -- he doesn't get attached to an individual polar bear the way he does to his golden retriever.
An unheroic and pragmatic age might readily divest itself of over-sentimental notions about Pitt as the self-sacrificing pilot who weathered the biggest international storm which Britain had encountered since the 15th century.
Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.
Kanaan was a sentimental favorite after several near-misses in his 11 previous Indy 500s.
Carnal love, then and, well, call it sentimental love, the day-to-day caring about the other.
Such is the old-fashioned, sentimental cliffhanger to which the screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and the director Danny Boyle have, with unembarrassed drive, committed themselves.
"Toward the Low Sun" (Drag City) is the ninth album by the instrumental group Dirty Three , which dispenses with equal efficacy sentimental folk ballads, free-flowing rock and downtown free jazz, resulting in tender beauty and raucous clatter.
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He begins solo, with an up-tempo "Getting Sentimental over You" from the 1940s, then adds the trio for an Irving Berlin ballad and Barron's own blues.
There is also a strong sentimental feeling here for the one-room schoolhouse, where a single teacher handled a range of abilities, and more advanced students often taught those behind them.
That sentimental policy sounds even more wrong-headed for the growing number of Japanese companies short on cash and long on debt, which gets harder and harder to pay in the current deflationary environment.
In the course of his inquiry, which leads him to visit the small town where his maternal grandparents were arrested in 1944 (a horrific event that Gitai dramatizes heavy-handedly), he uncovers bitter family secrets, the revelation of which, after ninety minutes of generic Euro-cinema, complete with sentimental manipulation and intellectual veneer, drops with a dull thud.
At one time, conservation rows set poor Africans, who needed the money from the ivory or rhino horn, against the sentimental sensitivities and big bucks of the animal-rights organisations of the rich West.
Combine that enlightening declaration with some sentimental sweeping strings, the predictable key change mid-way through, plus a lot of vibrato and you have the usual ingredients for a formulaic hit.
And despite padding out the action to a buttock-numbing running time with some unnecessary sentimental nonsense about Anderton's estranged family, he reminds us that few living directors can spin an escapist yarn quite as well as he does.
Sentimental investing is when investors become attached to certain investments for non-financial reasons.
The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.
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.
She has a big, gleaming soprano, evenly produced and, for the most part, well-controlled, ably standing up to the swooning orchestration and its sentimental touches of harp and organ.
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"Dickens came up with two endings - one which is incredibly bleak and one which is unrealistically romantic and sentimental, " he said last November.
Americans are possibly the least tradition-bound of hominids, having, in the main, left their sentimental attachments behind in whatever unhappy place they or their families came from.
Such sentimental versions of the familiar story remind us that carolling, like the pub sing-along, has always been a way of bringing groups of ordinary people together around a musical accompaniment, to enjoy each other's company and celebrate a festive occasion.
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).
This is a sentimental wallow of a picture, a glossy swan song that finds New York's perennial good-time gals in danger of turning into the ladies who lunch.
Barclays' executives are Wall Streeters at heart, but that sentimental attachment counts for little with American regulators and politicians, who would hesitate to take responsibility for a too-big-to-fail British retail bank.
Afterward, Bartholomew told himself that what had occurred must surely be no more than a mood of petulance, an eruption from his half-stifled impatience with the embroidery and frills that dressed the simplicity of truth, with the invasive, sentimental stories that somehow made faith easier, and the hymns he hated.
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