sentimental

IPA: sɛntʌmˈɛntʌɫ

Examples of "sentimental" in Sentences

“But isn't that what you call sentimental?” said Vincent.
You say 'the sentimental is always a got-up thing,' a 'do at the bottom of it.'
I went back to the Philippines with MacArthur on his final journey there in 1961, what he called his sentimental journey.
General Botha and General Smuts were ready to concede almost every material point, provided what they called the sentimental objection against race distinction was waived by the Indian community.
He would have liked to have left them behind altogether, and even tried to laugh Beth out of what he called her sentimental attachment to odds and ends; but as most of the things had belonged to Aunt Victoria, she took his ridicule so ill that he wisely let the subject drop.
We have already established in these (blog) pages that I don't think "sentimental" is a dirty word -- as long as the emotion is honestly earned, that I adore a good cry -- as long as I don't feel jerked around, and that I consider "old fashioned" a term of art, not an insult.
Whereas the term "sentimental" can be used more often than not to hint at an indulgence in the emotionality it can imply, when speaking of a movie it might refer to the film being used to pull on the heartstrings and provoke the tear ducts of the audience in a contrived and calculated manner.