SENTIMENTAL


Meaning of SENTIMENTAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sentimental comedy (= about emotions such as love and sadness )

The film is one of those tearful sentimental comedies.

for sentimental reasons (= because you like someone or something very much )

I wanted to keep the picture for sentimental reasons.

sentimental value (= important because it was a gift, reminds you of someone etc )

The ring wasn’t expensive but had great sentimental value.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

Or as I see it, more sentimental .

I suppose we get more sentimental as we grow older.

■ NOUN

comedy

As Big showed, Penny Marshall's strength is sentimental comedy .

These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy .

The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy , is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.

If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy , then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.

In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama.

Several of these sentimental comedies were imitations of El delincuente honrado.

Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.

Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.

journey

Yet the memoirs of these survivors, their dirge, is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers' sentimental journeys .

They would return home from these sentimental journeys reconfirmed in their Americanism.

The sentimental journey began at Euston.

reason

Richard did not accumulate objects for sentimental reasons .

Walt Disney could have had sentimental reason to consider northeastern Lake.

Apart from any sentimental reasons , the short-notice drove many to despair.

I went back later and took out all the pictures for sentimental reasons .

I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I don't need them for practical purposes.

I saw ffeatherstonehaugh's as a young man's club, and kept up my subscription purely for sentimental reasons .

Yet the shares have been hammered for little more than sentimental reasons .

For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal.

value

The sentimental value of her lockets, chains, rings, heirlooms was not appreciated by the insurance company.

She also lost several pieces of jewellery which were of sentimental value .

It is of considerable sentimental value and Mr Moorcock wonders if he lost it that night and if you had found it.

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

Before waxing lyrical about types of communication we need firstly to appreciate the uniqueness of the hotel environment.

In the pub, beer glass in hand, he waxed lyrical about how he would spend his earnings.

Marie Claire devoted last October's issue to the disease, and carried photos of topless celebrities waxing lyrical about their assets.

Only don't wax sentimental over their hospitality, just thinking of it gives me indigestion.

Second, it was the theological uses of mathematics on which Bacon waxed eloquent.

They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.

You're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads.

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

From the living room came the sound of a deep male voice singing a sentimental ballad.

I quite enjoyed the movie but I thought the ending was a little sentimental .

I suppose we get more sentimental as we grow older.

My father became increasingly sentimental as he got older and his friends died off.

Ramos admitted he was sentimental about his old school and was sad to see it torn down.

Vladimir shook my hand and said a sentimental farewell.

Westerberg writes unabashedly sentimental , romantic lyrics.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A little goes a long way; too much is unbearably sentimental .

Anti-whalers are denounced as sentimental .

Bill's loyalty to his apprentice had been ill rewarded this evening and no trainer could afford to be sentimental .

Employing only a cool curiosity, she had defended herself from sentimental pretences.

He is hardly a sentimental sap who is prone to vicarious patriotism.

It is the opinion of a sentimental tourist that no price would be too great to pay, the novelist declared.

This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimental modern aberration, but it is how I read the figure.

Who wanted to get sentimental while eating?

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