adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sentimental comedy (= about emotions such as love and sadness )
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The film is one of those tearful sentimental comedies.
for sentimental reasons (= because you like someone or something very much )
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I wanted to keep the picture for sentimental reasons.
sentimental value (= important because it was a gift, reminds you of someone etc )
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The ring wasn’t expensive but had great sentimental value.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Or as I see it, more sentimental .
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I suppose we get more sentimental as we grow older.
■ NOUN
comedy
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As Big showed, Penny Marshall's strength is sentimental comedy .
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These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy .
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The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy , is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.
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If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy , then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.
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In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama.
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Several of these sentimental comedies were imitations of El delincuente honrado.
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Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.
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Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
journey
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Yet the memoirs of these survivors, their dirge, is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers' sentimental journeys .
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They would return home from these sentimental journeys reconfirmed in their Americanism.
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The sentimental journey began at Euston.
reason
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Richard did not accumulate objects for sentimental reasons .
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Walt Disney could have had sentimental reason to consider northeastern Lake.
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Apart from any sentimental reasons , the short-notice drove many to despair.
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I went back later and took out all the pictures for sentimental reasons .
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I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I don't need them for practical purposes.
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I saw ffeatherstonehaugh's as a young man's club, and kept up my subscription purely for sentimental reasons .
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Yet the shares have been hammered for little more than sentimental reasons .
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For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal.
value
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The sentimental value of her lockets, chains, rings, heirlooms was not appreciated by the insurance company.
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She also lost several pieces of jewellery which were of sentimental value .
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It is of considerable sentimental value and Mr Moorcock wonders if he lost it that night and if you had found it.
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Small items of both financial and sentimental value should never be left in the house unless a good safe has been installed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wax sentimental/eloquent/lyrical etc
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Before waxing lyrical about types of communication we need firstly to appreciate the uniqueness of the hotel environment.
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In the pub, beer glass in hand, he waxed lyrical about how he would spend his earnings.
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Marie Claire devoted last October's issue to the disease, and carried photos of topless celebrities waxing lyrical about their assets.
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Only don't wax sentimental over their hospitality, just thinking of it gives me indigestion.
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Second, it was the theological uses of mathematics on which Bacon waxed eloquent.
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They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.
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You're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads.
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You didn't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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From the living room came the sound of a deep male voice singing a sentimental ballad.
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I quite enjoyed the movie but I thought the ending was a little sentimental .
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I suppose we get more sentimental as we grow older.
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My father became increasingly sentimental as he got older and his friends died off.
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Ramos admitted he was sentimental about his old school and was sad to see it torn down.
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Vladimir shook my hand and said a sentimental farewell.
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Westerberg writes unabashedly sentimental , romantic lyrics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little goes a long way; too much is unbearably sentimental .
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Anti-whalers are denounced as sentimental .
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Bill's loyalty to his apprentice had been ill rewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental .
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Employing only a cool curiosity, she had defended herself from sentimental pretences.
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He is hardly a sentimental sap who is prone to vicarious patriotism.
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It is the opinion of a sentimental tourist that no price would be too great to pay, the novelist declared.
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This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimental modern aberration, but it is how I read the figure.
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Who wanted to get sentimental while eating?