Sentences with phrase «in sentimental»

In addition to being worth money, they will also probably be worth something in sentimental value.

They are interested in the sentimental attachments these pieces have and the stories that they tell.

If we observe Elizabeth Murray «taking cues» in her Sentimental Education, 1982, «from the clunky figures and objects in late Guston,» and if we note Whitney's «deceptively casual paint handling, largely adapted from Guston,» we might also consider Joan Snyder's Beanfield with Music, 1984, as a work that explores and draws on both the»50s Guston, who seems already (again) to be flirting with figure, and the later Guston, with his bizarre and darkly humorous landscape compositions.

Paris, La Galerie des Galeries, In a Sentimental Mood, May - August 2013, pp. 8 - 9, 22 and 31 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

While the Pre-Raphaelites had a turbulent and divided reception, the most popular and expensive painters of the period included Edwin Landseer, who specialized in sentimental animal subjects, which were favourites of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

On the gallery's second and third floors, Colen's new Mother and Purgatory paintings further extend the artist's longstanding interest in the sentimental tenderness of mid-20th century hand - drawn animation.

It's not an audio tour, but a mixtape of the artist's favorite songs, including Duke Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood and Thelonious Monk's Round Lights.

Thoughts of passing days, people, gestures and the often overlooked objects of daily life have driven my work in a sentimental direction, many in the form of watercolor flower works.»

As for those die - hard capitalists who denounce sentimental retrospectives (although there is always money in sentimental retrospectives — just ask the movie industry), here are the hard, cold prices.

After completing my first novel, The Tiger's Wife, I've found myself indulging in a sentimental mood.

'' «All lonely roads lead back to Music» in this sentimental journey that might be a mashup of the lives of shooting stars like Bobby Darin or Ricky Nelson.»

Many of his works, such as «In a Sentimental Mood,» «Mood Indigo» and «Sophisticated Lady,» are still played today.

Many of his work, such as «In a Sentimental Mood» «Mood Indigo» and «Sophisticated Lady, is still played today.

The role of Dickens's father John, twice imprisoned for debt and the model for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, falls to Jonathan Pryce, in a sentimental turn that's intentionally the antithesis to Plummer's expert humbugging.

This creates a vortex of human interest screenwriter Eric Heisserer and director Steven Quale, one of James Cameron's protégés, attempt to fill by cramming in sentimental blather about cross-continental relationships and mourning boyfriends, accompanied by Brian Tyler's mawkish score, which shamelessly lifts its marimbas right out of American Beauty.

, this war drama deftly sidesteps the paths that suck you down in sentimental quicksand.

Essentially a remake of Gaspar Noé's Irreversible, but reversed, Fruitvale Station is an exercise in sentimental histrionics and battering - ram manipulation, with the moral of the story being, you're never too lovable to get whacked.

The attempts to shoehorn in a sentimental message are less effective.

Writer - director Michael McGowan must be exhausted after all the tugging he does on our heartstrings in this sentimental drama.

It is an extremely emotional story, but you don't tell it in a sentimental way.

Marji has long since ceased to be a compelling character because her adventures don't adapt to her growing awareness but, aside for one or two moments, continue to be expressed in a sentimental and highly clichéd terms (note to filmmakers: thou shalt not use «Eye of the Tiger» for any reason, even in jest).

Unfortunately, the film sends the fragile characters on a far more traditional arc than does the book, culminating in a sentimental, «present - day» climax complete with tear - stained old - age latex makeup.

Some of the episode is forced — Sarah's babbling job tryout with Hank, for instance — but in those universal moments of family togetherness and transition, as these grown - ups who sometimes still feel like kids marvel at the mystery of parenthood, Parenthood is worth its weight in sentimental angst.

Robert Donat gives a strong performance as a legendary school teacher in this sentimental tribute, which introduced to American audiences British actress Greer Garson.

Tile isn't just for keys and wallets, it can be used in those sentimental items you can't imagine life without!

I wear my jewelry as art and always as a finishing statement to each outfit, but I mostly wear it in a sentimental way.

And then before I got swept up in a sentimental ride of it all, I was brought right back down to reality by a six year old learning something new.

Hyung Goo seemed to be undergoing the same sort of transformation that happens in sentimental Victorian novels when somebody dies young.

With this understanding of what it means to learn the Truth, the fact that I have been instructed by Socrates or by Prodicus or by a servant - girl, can concern me only historically; or in so far as lam a Plato in sentimental enthusiasm, it may concern me poetically.

So when something upsetting happens to them against their will, rather than get consciously angry, mean, manipulative or deceitful, they drive these unpleasant thoughts and feelings deep underground and cover it all in a sentimental spirituality laced with ultimate concern for the church, God's will, and mission.

For an Ellington classic like «In A Sentimental Mood,» there is thus something like twelve different versions released somewhere over the years, here an inspired modernized re-arrangement, and there a pat insertion of it into a live set, or even into a «memory lane» medley.

His lack of sympathy for the sensible and the tangible lands him finally in sentimental weakness.

Yet his fiction makes powerful witness against the soggy spirituality of our age, confronting us with a Cross which demands our disbelief in all sentimental substitutes.

Often enough this need is spoken of in too easy a manner; it is sung about in sentimental songs and described in terms which can cheapen the reality which is at stake.

It is not in the sentimental novel only that the self - centered husband has been shocked back into responsibility, and even into a renewal of true love by the sickness of his wife.

In the absence of that truth, the Universal Declaration is an exercise in sentimental delusion.

And if I were a Plato in sentimental enthusiasm, and if my heart beat as violently as Alcibiades» or more violently than that of the Corybantic mystic while listening to the words of Socrates; if the passion of my admiration knew no rest until I had clasped the wondrous master in my arms — Socrates would but smile at me and say: «My friend, how deceitful a lover you are!

However, announcing it in a sentimental display is only showy and embarrassing.

Not exact matches

For example, he discovered that the number of refrigerator magnets people had was correlated with how sentimental they were — almost a metaphorical desire to «freeze time» as captured in the photographs on display.

If you want to tenderly concoct a similar sentimental present for your loved ones, as the commercial reads at the end, in the fine print below Apple's «Happy Holidays» message, remember, there's «addl hardware required.»

I imagine some of you in this yard may be a tad cynical, but I want to be unapologetically sentimental.

In our experience, funny or emotionally moving videos top that list — especially stuff that's drippy, sentimental or inflammatory.

They may be sensitive to a founder's wishes, but not sentimental in negotiating final deal terms.

This sort of Facebook psycho isn't staying in touch with old flames for sentimental reasons, but instead out of hopes of milking something more out of the relationship.

«Just bear in mind that there is a good chance this monster rocket blows up,» Musk reportedly told Plait in an email, «so I wouldn't put anything of irreplaceable sentimental value on it.»

In 1941, three years after receiving the Mexican financial settlement, the Romneys made a sentimental return to Mexico, retracing the route of Miles P. Romney and his wives from Utah to Arizona to Mexico.

In their November 2012 paper entitled «Is «Sentiment» Sentimental?»

Even though you might be feeling a little sentimental about leaving your old home, there is sure to be a lot of excitement about making new memories in your new one!

«Just bear in mind that there is a good chance this monster rocket blows up, so I wouldn't put anything of irreplaceable sentimental value on it.»

He had in mind his own experience of the German people as «extremely sentimental,» possessed of a «tremendous tenderness.»