Ads made it look more like a sentimental film a la The Bucket List than a comedy.
The prize for the earliest picture goes to Benjamin West's "The Golden Age" (1776), a sentimental portrait of a mother and her sleeping child.
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.
Firearms can have a sentimental value and a historic value.
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Hawkins isn't sentimental about a seemingly good pick gone bad.
If you're throwing good money after bad, but it's a sentimental piece that's a personal decision.
But there is a less sentimental conception of Venice's femininity: of a woman of easy virtue who clings on to many clients despite the ravages of time which are treated by means of shrewdly applied face lifts.
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.
Kanaan was a sentimental favorite after several near-misses in his 11 previous Indy 500s.
First came a sentimental favorite and fellow Latino, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
So there's sort of a sentimental connection that I have with the Cubs because of my dad.
She also brings an admirable lightness of touch to what might otherwise have been a sentimental story.
At Review, an excellent bookshop on the corner of Bellenden and Choumert Roads, a sentimental whippet holds court.
Debbie Stabenow, of Michigan, her hand across her heart, sang a sentimental duet with Robert Menendez, of New Jersey.
It would be nice if immigrants developed a sentimental attachment to the Fatherland and its Leitkultur, but is it necessary?
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In some ways, Morris can become a sentimental favorite since he is quickly approaching the end of his eligibility on the B.
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.
China's leaders are not a sentimental lot, and if they cling to an alliance with the North Korean regime it must be because they believe it in China's interests.
The anniversary concert was a sentimental and musical success.
The Wall Street Journal Europe asked leading lights from international business, arts and culture to take a sentimental look at the watches and jewelry items that mean the most to them, and why.
England, he accepted, naturally had a sentimental attachment to its footballing history, which dated back to medieval times, but the reality was that players in the modern game were getting ever more accomplished.
This record was started in the Bush era and went over the cusp into Obama, and I appreciated how story-savvy the Bush administration was to put a sentimental, gooey, homey word like 'homeland' next to 'bureau' and 'security.
Then they were at the penultimate turn, the box canyon just ahead, and the little town corralled within, its waterfall tumbling reliably at the precise center of the backdrop, a landscape painting by a sentimental artist.
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.
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).
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.
This sentimental approach can undermine a common trust strategy designed to preserve the estate tax exemption of the first spouse to die without leaving the survivor short of funds.
Sentimental narratives a child's first steps on a picturesque terrace, a brigand and his pregnant wife kneeling at a roadside cross sometimes make it difficult to appreciate the forthright paint-handling and assured drawing of these studies.
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