Emotional period with gospels etc in back streets

Usage examples of sentimental.

The saga of Gerry Brell, up to and including your little sentimental gesture, and how you feel about her.

In their understandable zeal to go transrational, they often embrace any prerational occasion simply because it is nonrationalany occasion that looks biocentrically oriented, from horticultural planting mythology to rampant tribalism to blood magic and sensual glorification of a sentimental nature, all in the name, of course, of saving Gaia.

Wolfsheim, for getting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.

He manages to be sentimental without being cloying, literate without overwriting, and passionate without a need for graphic detail.

He grabbed his hand, pounded him on the back, and yelled at him the affectionate insults that sentimental men use in attempting to cover up their weakness.

He was about to glance into the hayloft, to satisfy his sentimental vision of how it would have looked to him and Joyce, a cavern of country fragrance, a musk of dead summers still banked there in pourried mounds.

You will like the taste of it: retouching your life-history, overlaying a sentimental note over simple events, and finally - inventing them from scratch.

There is no trace in his poetry of raw, unmastered, merely recorded, emotion: the sentimental experience is always completely transformed.

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey AS GREATLY AS SHE WISHED it were not so, Abigail Adams was terrified of the sea.

The regulars at Bahia Mar would gather a few times and laugh at crazy memories, hoist the sentimental glass and get mournfully drunk.

He wanted to talk to her about the Dons, about Baris, about easy, sentimental things.

The Pyrenees served, too, for Baronne Dudevant as the setting for an episode which was unique in her sentimental life.

Spanish mahogany, sentimental engravings, and an atmosphere in which the stale smoke of Beefs pipes blended with the last meal eaten at the plush-covered table.

Juan Cordova was not a sentimental man, nor given to gestures of generosity.

Little of what he actually said was original, and often to us he comes across as unbelievably sentimental, real cornpone hokum stuff.