Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.

此外，我们不能忘记，这儿有一个利益问题，与理想和感情不大相容，有时胃会使心麻痹。

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As usual, we always adore the sentimental love stories, like always and forever, sometimes they give us back the thing that had been beaten out of us, faith in those we love.

我们总是追崇那些凄美的爱情故事，如生死相随，有时候它们确实给了我们本身已经被磨灭的东西，相信我们所爱之人。

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His fondness for his characters sometimes veers towards the sentimental.

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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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He was often criticized as hokey, sentimental and overly dramatic, and sometimes he was.

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