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sentimental

Something that is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion. Derived from emotion rather than reason Romantic I'm in a sentimental mood. I keep old love letters for sentimental reasons. My favorite song is "Sentimental Journey".

sentimental

given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality (= bathetic, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, slushy) effusively or insincerely emotional a bathetic novel maudlin expressions of sympathy mushy effusiveness a schmaltzy song sentimental soap operas slushy poetry

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Simple sentences

Don't get sentimental.
Don't be such a sentimental idiot.
It has sentimental value.
Tom avoided listening to sad and sentimental love songs after he and Mary had split up.
The Americans are a sentimental people who, under all its realism, is very prone to idealistic ideas.
Don't be so sentimental.
Tom is very romantic and sentimental.

Movie subtitles

That's what becomes love, memories and sentimental longing. That one of those things alone are the strengths that keep you alive.
No, I was very sentimental in those days and very foolish.
OH, I SUPPOSE YOU'LL THINK ME A SENTIMENTAL OLD FLUFF, BUT WOULD YOU MIND GIVING ME A LOCK OF YOUR HAIR? A LOCK OF MY HAIR?
You know, divorces make me so sentimental.
And I'm sorry, son, to find you sentimental.
As a sentimental gesture toward the best friend that opera ever had-- the late Mr. Semple-- l think it only fitting that his nephew, Mr. Longfellow Deeds. should be made our next chairman.
Too much wine has made you sentimental.
Have you suddenly become a sentimental schoolgirl?
You're too sentimental.
Can't a girl be a little sentimental?
Let's stop being sentimental.
And remember, my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.
Make up some terribly sentimental story from your childhood and make tears come to her eyes.
You make Antro sentimental.
You will think me a sentimental old fluff, but would you mind giving me a lock of your hair?
Comical, sentimental, or whatever the scene suggests.
So no need to become sentimental.
Are there only gossip mongers and sentimental wifes around here? But everbody knows it.
That's just a catch phrase, sentimental nonsense.
It's good to be sentimental. People are so hard-hearted these days.
He's been superseded by Judge Rankin of St. Louis. who's not so sentimental about train robbers. He arrives tonight.
A sort of sentimental journey.
Women are romantic, sentimental.
I don't know if it's this sentimental talk, but I'm famished!
Forgive me for being sentimental.
Sentimental fellow, aren't you?
Listen carefully to the sentimental tone.
Let's not have any more of this sentimental taffy.
Whether perhaps it has any sentimental associations or is connected with anyone she knew.
Sentimental hogwash.

News and current affairs

Should we dismiss it as sentimental nonsense?
But, apart from his sentimental wartime connections to Japan, his anti-Communism was incentive enough to continue warm relations with the imperial power that had brutally colonized Korea for a half-century.
But they are often sentimental about Churchill.
We think ourselves more open, sentimental, cordial, and family oriented, but also more disorganized and blase, at times irresponsible and lazy.
But if Chinese propaganda paints too dark a picture of the Tibetan past, Westerners who sympathize with the Tibetan cause are often too sentimental.
Devoid of sentimental attachment to Israel's cause and deeply disturbed by its policies in the occupied territories, Obama represents the specter of a White House where neither love nor interests are shared with the Jewish state.

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