Sentences with word «sentimentality»

Calling The Walking Dead a work of entertainment almost seems like a misnomer, considering the heavy tone and general lack of sentimentality in the writing.

Yet they still encourage us to see a hint of sentimentality in Eckart's formal reticence.

Compositionally it can be domineering, predictable, and emotionally it invokes nostalgia and can draw the viewer in with sentimentality.»

The ultimate consolation of the gospel message — the message of salvation — dissolves, we knew, into sentimentality without a clear sense of what it is that the gospel saves us from.

American football and ballroom dance are the channels through which Pat re-engages with his father and his new love (not a sentence one often gets to write) and the lack of sentimentality about those suffering mental ill health is both welcome and unusual in Hollywood movies.

Porter celebrates a particular kind of all - American domesticity but does so without sentimentality or nostalgia.

In the past they've gone absurdist with I Love You Phillip Morris, leaned on sentimentality in Crazy, Stupid, Love, and smirked their way through Focus.

As we learn the difference we will move even further from sentimentality about the common life.

There is a hint of sentimentality which simultaneously confronts the meticulous form of museum presentation as well as the humour that is innate in Prina's work.

He influenced John Lees, who doesn't always avoid sentimentality as sharply and clearly as Brodie does.

There's lots of sentimentality at Arsenal that's why Giroud is still here, there's no way a striker who only scores 16 goals in an EPL 38 game season would still be at any of the other clubs that want to fight for trophies

And the most impressive thing is the way it avoids sentimentality at every turn, even when things...

Overwhelmed by sentimentality, Asbury realizes that martyrdom is going to be denied and he must come to terms with mystery.

So it's not sentimentality alone that brings Vice home for its first foray into the offline media world.

Here, after all, is a setup rife with the potential for mawkish sentimentality and insipid inspirational platitudinizing.

It's to Freeman's credit that he manages to make this soppiness work without devolving into easy sentimentality.

Either way, it's far from sentimentality keeping him in the team.

Sometimes it was a bit too much sentimentality for me, but if you love true life dramas, you will like this movie.

There is an absence of any cloying sentimentality in the writing style: it is simple and direct, has no clichés, and manages to bring the extraordinary events of several hundred years ago into our reach.

With a nearly three - minute run time, the footage strikes a balance between sentimentality, with references to family and shots of the late Walker, and all - out action, with the fast cars, explosions and fights we've come to expect from the blockbuster franchise.

Such sentimentality finds expression also in patterns of Christian piety.

Filmed in three - strip Technicolor, a process long abandoned by Hollywood, which acquiesces a richness of reds and a luxuriance of yellows no longer achievable in American films, Zhang Yimou's historical heart breaker somehow sidesteps maudlin sentimentality while still maximizing its titular crimson blush.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

His excellent direction, writing and no - nonsense approach shy away from over sentimentality and tears.

I know it is Father's Day so sentimentality towards dad and fatherhood is booming.

And it's all done without a hint of saccharine sentimentality or even of much moralizing: Affleck saves the introspection for the quiet moments he allows his cast to sit, eyes to the distance, remembering acts that can never be recovered.

This is innocuous, heart - in - the - right - place family fare, but its well - earned points about animal rights and preservation would be better taken if the relentless sentimentality didn't force viewers into flippers - in - the - air submission.

The Elder Scrolls games have always managed to evoke this warm sentimentality in those who have played them.

Anybody who thinks that the idea «love is the point of the Gospel» is nothing more than wishy - washy, liberal sentimentality needs to read this book.

As I've written in the past, sidelining the objectivity of truth encourages the triumph of bourgeois religion, a generic do - good sentimentality characterized by only one stricture — which is that the conduct of the well - off, well - educated, and well - intentioned residents of the rich world of the West is not to be judged in any definitive way.

But instead of precious keepsakes, Kelley upsets expectations of sentimentality because the objects presented were collected, not as keepsakes, but as artist's materials.

There's plenty of room for sentimentality here, but the wonder of Salles» film is all in the telling.

Zemeckis may have a tendency to veer toward sentimentality, but he's the right person for this job, putting the corn in popcorn entertainment.

Thomas Webster (1800 - 86) painted subjects of similar character and was perhaps the best of his followers, and Thomas Faed (1826 - 1900) with less humour and more sentimentality carried on this tradition to the end of the century.

In a lot of ways, the popularity of «Unchained Melody» in relation to this picture is like the popularity of «My Heart Will Go On» in relation to Titanic: Suddenly, wedding DJs had a whole other reason for wanting to kill themselves — the empty, overblown sentimentality attached to these tunes mirroring, nay, narrating the films to which they're attached.

Today, love is too often understood as romantic sentimentality rather than unbreakable commitment.

McGovern expertly mixes sentimentality with grit, and she gets the balance just right.

Her latest efforts, by all accounts a lesser offense but no greater a piece of cinema, is a light and fluffy exercise in sheer sentimentality, the director's bid to make her version of a film in the style of fellow Cannes regular Hirokazu Kore - eda — minus the rigorous formalism, and plus a lot of schmaltz.

It's funny and sweet, and devoid of false sentimentality.

The film's message may have been diluted by a weak resolution that dissolved into nostalgic sentimentality and undermined much of what came before, but the imagery still resonates.

Putting the cheesy sentimentality aside, Zelda has become a staple of the holidays for me.

Thankfully, they manage to resist sentimentality at every step, although perhaps...

But despite its dry - boned style, it also exudes the same sentimentality as so much of the filmmaker's other work, albeit perhaps in this case as a consequence of telling a story not only whose outcome we know, but feels unlikely to challenge audiences» own values or opinions about the events in question.

That it actually tries to go for sticky sentimentality in the end is the biggest kick to the stomach, and almost had me heading to the exit early.

This combination often heightens one's awareness of minute details and Bartlett exploits these sensations to create images that eschew sentimentality while remaining indelibly poignant.

A true theology of the cross places radical question marks over against sentimentality of that sort.

1 Sentimental items In your haste to rid your home of clutter, don't let sentimentality fly out the window as well.