Sentences with phrase «on sentimental»

Whether you will credit Wood's sincerity may depend, therefore, on how badly you miss the great modernist project of protecting the innocent experience of looking: a quest that would have verged on the sentimental had its results not been so shocking.

In many cases these depictions verge on the sentimental.

The Lucky One - If you've seen one Nicholas Sparks movie, you've probably wasted a couple of hours on sentimental crap.

This week, writer Nathanael Hood takes us on a sentimental journey through Vincente Minnelli's -LSB-...]

Here, the whole picture hinges on this sentimental familial bond, and it's not entirely an improvement.

It, however, started off on a sentimental note with Hugh Jackman.

This week, writer Nathanael Hood takes us on a sentimental journey through Vincente Minnelli's 1945 magical romance The Clock starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker.

Suffice to say, Home Alone 2 falls into the same sad camp as Elf, celebrating the material benefits of the holiday season and then tacking on a sentimental coda as a half - hearted apology.

It's worth noting, however, that the movie does lose some steam as it takes an expectedly dramatic turn towards the end, as, despite what screenwriter Bert V. Royal clearly believes, the narrative simply isn't deep enough to withstand the increasingly pervasive emphasis on sentimental elements (and all the John Hughes references aren't really helping, either).

and it's also a great time to stock up on sentimental gifts like Personalized Mugs, Calendars and Ornaments (the perfect gift for grandparents)

Be sure to check out Christina's post on A Sentimental Adventure to get the details on how she styled this skirt.

Brits pride themselves on being sensible and pragmatic people, but they embarked on a sentimental journey into the unknown.

J Kroenke has said the decision would not be based on sentimental reasons so there you go..

There a sense in which these celebrations — particularly when performed by players who've been at the same club for a while — take on a sentimental aspect.

If it doesn't produce any good fruit, we shouldn't be trying to prop it up on sentimental attactment and wishful thinking.

Thus, for the black man to believe the Word of God about his love revealed in Christ, he must be prepared to meet head - on the sentimental «Christian» love of whites, which would make him a nonperson.4

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.

«So I wouldn't put anything of irreplaceable sentimental value on it.»

«I thought I might have a sentimental attachment, but I haven't been able to keep them at home on display,» Greensfelder said.

Consumers have a sentimental attachment to the brands they grew up on, such as Disney, Nestlé and the big cereal brands.

«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.»

Garcia also posts tons of snaps of her daughter on Instagram and even shared a particularly sentimental picture on the day before her only child's Golden Globes appearance.

On that last sentiment indicator, you might want to read an old post of mine: INVESTOR SENTIMENT SURVEYS: DO N'T BE TOO SENTIMENTAL!

If they knock on the door and offer # 1m, and you know it isn't worth # 500k, then it's purely a sentimental decision whether you want to sell up.

«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.»

Indeed, on my bottom - ten list (too sappy and sentimental).

on the one hand characterized by rationalistic ideas of progress and on the other by a sentimental pietism.

Here, for instance, are the opening lines of a poem from her 2012 collection A Thousand Mornings, the very title of which, «On Traveling to Beautiful Places,» starts playing a sentimental tune:

But we could too easily replace this shallowness by another, cruel as sentimental attitudes inevitably are, which leaves out of account the presence in human life of the sheerly irrevocable, of that which has been done, and it is now too late to undo, of the damage inflicted on others that can not be put right and that no interpretation can possible render edifying.

And despite their tendency toward the saccharine and the sentimental, Sebold and Albom succeed on precisely this point: they create for their readers an emotional connection to heaven.

There is no sentimental groupiness about everyone being as competent about everything as everyone else just because all are on the same level.

The confidence that they will not, it is to be feared, is based on little more than sentimental naivete and the unseemly hubris of our assumed moral superiority to «them.»

On the other hand, the notion of God as sentimental niceness — what I have called «smothering love» — springs from the wish of many people to be so completely tolerant that they are unwilling or unable to take a stand on anythinOn the other hand, the notion of God as sentimental niceness — what I have called «smothering love» — springs from the wish of many people to be so completely tolerant that they are unwilling or unable to take a stand on anythinon anything.

If their position is not to be perceived as sentimental, if they hope to persuade any significant number of their overwhelming opposition, they must start by making clear that their case is not in principle argued on behalf of those who have been rightly convicted of capital crimes.

Yet if we are not careful, we convert that directive into a sentimental blasphemy, which appeals to both liberals and conservatives in the church, but which is dangerous in a way: when we issue calls for action on the basis of Christ's presence, there tends to be no stopping us.

A complete atheist stands on the last rung but one before absolute faith [he may or may not step higher], but an indifferent man has no longer any faith at all, nothing but an ugly fear, and that only on rare occasions, if he is a sentimental man.»

Green himself is a subscriber to the belief that the best works of art are partly defined by what you bring to them, and while on the surface this is a book about death, it's actually a book about life, though never a sentimental one.

Perhaps the commonest expression of this assumption that spiritual value is undone if lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsentimental people so often pass on their more sentimental acquaintances.

I'd already met Laura and family on the pages of her Little House novels, and, in the four decades since, scenes from the TV show and passages from those yellow paperbacks have combined in my memory, conjuring a sentimental haze.

If they hold a Seder in their homes on the first night of the Passover, or take their families to a synagogue on the Day of Atonement, it is only because they feel that it won't do the children any harm, and may even do them a mite of good, to be exposed to a sentimental observance of old folk customs that are part of their heritage.

Rock was born when popular music shifted from sentimental tributes to puppy love and stolen kisses to brooding reflections on the unsteadiness of sexual desire as a guide through the twisting passages of youth.

Love for neighbor and enemy depends not on an emotional and sentimental feeling of pity or admiration, which finds in the most profligate individual the spark of the divine, of noble, inextinguishable humanity; rather it depends on the command of God.

On the other hand, some religious book publishers actively require their authors to produce what I consider bad prose: obvious, sentimental, contrived, cute and preachy.

About a decade ago, I heard Wheaton College's Jerry Root, a noted Lewis scholar, describe the Chronicles of Narnia author's views on animals as a sentimental failing in his thought.

Is it not incontestable, a matter of everyday experience, that each of these, to the extent that he believes (and sees the other believe) in the future of the world, feels a basic human sympathy for the other — not for any sentimental reason, but arising out of the obscure recognition that both are going the same way, and that despite all ideological differences they will eventually, in some manner, come together on the same summit?

The sentimental «Touch me touch me Jesus / Jesus I am on your side» of the crowd and the inflated «Hey JC, JC won't you smile at me?

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

But then again H. Maynard Smith warns that we are in danger today of passing from a sentimental view of the Middle Ages seen from a sanctuary where the sun irradiates the stained - glass windows, to a realistic view of the Middle Ages as seen from a gutter on a gloomy day.

Cupcakes can feature any sort of candy on them from those hearts with sentimental words, to red candy hearts, chocolate, sprinkles, gumballs and gummy bears.

we watched them excitedly each night before we passed out, which felt super sentimental especially when i felt that nostalgic static on my fingertips when i brushed the tv screen and rewound -LRB-!!!)