Crossword clues for sentimental
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sentimental \Sen`ti*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. sentimental.]
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Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.]
Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.
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Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.
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Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Syn: Romantic.
Usage: Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former gives indulgence to his sensibilities for the mere luxury of their excitement; the votary of the latter allows his imagination to rove for the pleasure of creating scenes of ideal enjoiment. ``Perhaps there is no less danger in works called sentimental. They attack the heart more successfully, because more cautiously.''
--V. Knox. ``I can not but look on an indifferency of mind, as to the good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much wiser than they ever were, or could be.''
--Bp. Stillingfleet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion 2 derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment 3 romantic
WordNet
adj. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy]
Wikipedia
"Sentimental" is a Porcupine Tree song. It appears as the fourth track on the 2007 album Fear of a Blank Planet.
An early version of the song's chorus can be found on the track "Normal" from the Nil Recurring EP.
The song was NPR's "Song of the Day" on 4 June 2007.
Sentimental is the seventh studio album by Tanita Tikaram, released in 2005. The album was released only on the French label Naïve Records.
Sentimental was the first single from Deborah Cox.
Sentimental, the adjectival form of sentimentality, may also refer to:
"Sentimental" is a song by American Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, from his sixth studio album Breathless which was released in 1992.
Sentimental is a 1981 Argentine crime film directed by and starring Sergio Renán. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.
"Sentimental" is the second single extracted from the album " Bloco do Eu Sozinho" band Los Hermanos. It is the second song signed by the singer Rodrigo Amarante to consider working range. The first was "Quem Sabe", the debut album "Los Hermanos", 1999.
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.