Sentences with phrase «such sentimental»

Such sentimental memories too.

Your girls will be 100 % lucky to play with such a sentimental treasure.

It has such sentimental value for me (given to me by my parents as a gift for my 21st birthday) but the look of it doesn't fit with anything in our home these days and I would love to paint it but have been hesitating.

You must love getting to decorate with pieces that have such sentimental history.

Such sentimental treasures!!!

What act of violence couldn't be justified by such sentimental drivel?

I have such sentimental attachment to my first car.

A movie like Timothy Green will play best with adults who generally don't see movies and therefore won't find it as easy to spot the tacky tricks and cookie - cutter tropes of such sentimental storytelling.

It's just a pity that such a sentimental, human - redemption - via - otherworldly - experience message was rammed home so heavy - handedly in the final scenes.

In a year where the aesthetic and thematic tropes of the training montage had been reduced to fodder for Team America: World Police, Tarantino brutally and pointedly puts Beatrix through her paces, refusing to discard such sentimental notions as «honor» and «respect» even as he basks in retrograde modes of storytelling.

What surprises me the most about Real Steel is the way this film featuring robots evoked such sentimental feelings in me — similar to the way I reacted to WALL * E, that marvelous animated movie about a trash - collecting robot.

Such sentimental memories too.

It is in the nature of cynical Britain to sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.

It is exactly such a sentimental and superstitious understanding of miracles - namely, as God's arbitrary violation of the natural order to heed clamant human request - that Alyosha is required to surrender.

Hartshorne describes the propagation of such sentimental faith as «smoothing the path of the oppressor» (MYG 165).

I thought I grew out of the flags and the happy - clappy Jesus - is - my - boyfriend songs, that I was too wise and smart for such sentimental things but in my maturity now I want to shout out hallelujah and fling myself to the ground prostrate, in gratitude for dirt and little boys, for babies and the lines around my eyes, for Johnny Cash and pine trees at dusk, for the taste of cold water and the vineyard, for the piano and the ones from among us who stand to lead us out into the day singing.

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

The default mode of bioethical reasoning in popular Christian culture — a sentimental version of utilitarianism — deems such reflective distance unfeeling and cruel.

Such radical skepticism soon slides into a cynicism altogether as sentimental and self - serving as the easy optimism it rejects.

Such love can not conceivably wish to «thingify» or depersonalize; when we see depersonalizing taking place, we can be sure that instead of love we have only a sentimental substitute or what amounts to a mere pretension (romantic or tolerant) for true concern.

The collective right to peace demands such a basic approach — in fact and law — that we can no longer afford to regard it merely as a sentimental concept or to confine it to an intellectual category of human rights.

To prevent such defections from his own hard - won orthodoxy, the Liberator Devil models himself as the cool hipster ironically detached from whoever and whatever threatens the individual's solitary integrity with sentimental interdictions.

O'Connor's contrariness regarding conventional, perhaps - sentimental Catholic piety» she described herself as «a long standing avoider of May processions and such - like nun - inspired doings,» and spoke dismissively of «the novena - rosary tradition»» is a position clearly more comfortable and comprehensible to her biographer than is her adult devoutness.

For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.

In contrast to the difficulties raised by such hard questions as these, the popular image of community is distressingly pastoral and sentimental.

Much fiction included a «deathbed scene», presented with a sentimental attention to detail; many will remember such scenes in the novels of Charles Dickens, guaranteed to move the reader to tears as each circumstance was described.

We rediscover images — such as heaven — that we used to dismiss as anachronistic or overly sentimental.

Such a lovely gift — I'll have to check out Elizabeth W in the city It's a beautiful pillow (I'm really amazed by anyone who can stitch / sew / do anything crafty, really) and so cool how sentimental it is too

Maybe I am a bit sentimental over Cazorla but he is such a joy to watch when fit, reminds me of Rosicky a bit like that, a joy to watch and proud they wear our badge.

Beside the flood of potboilers and analyses, another genre has flourished: personal narratives of exploration, such as John David Morley's Pictures from the Water Trade, Alan Booth's The Roads to Sata and Leslie Downer's more sentimental, televised journeys into Japan's deep north.

Aquamarine is named after seawater and this is relevant to me in so many ways with my star sign being the water bearer, it just adds that extra sentimental touch to such a stunning pair of earrings.

Our son was born there and Liam's dad is from Barnsley so I was really pleased Liam chose to buy my ring there as I love sentimental things like this.Liam has a simple cobalt band, he is a physics teacher so he has to wear something hard wearing as he's always coming home having burnt his tie or some such accident so his ring is bound to be in danger at some point!

I'm such a sucker for sentimental stuff so sweet that your daughter gets to enjoy the same adventures with your dad that you did.

Nowadays people don't wear only lockets as sentimental pieces; instead any piece of jewellery can be a special one - such as a charm bracelet with meaningful and personal charms, or even a simple necklace or ring that was given by someone special.

Such a lovely gift — I'll have to check out Elizabeth W in the city It's a beautiful pillow (I'm really amazed by anyone who can stitch / sew / do anything crafty, really) and so cool how sentimental it is too

People or gatherings of individuals who need to meet other individuals for social purposes, sentimental connections, or just to make new companions can do as such through the method for online dating administrations.

This shamelessly simplistic hokey film is made to order for those consumers ripe for the taking for all the pic's product placements and viewers who can become teary - eyed after absorbing all the awkward sentimental blows of such mush.

The majority of these projects constituted sentimental, family - friendly melodramas, such as the 2001 Follow the Stars Home (with Williams as a young woman deserted by her husband after she gives birth to a deformed baby) and the 2002 outing The Christmas Shoes (as a mother dying of congenital heart failure).

Although outwardly operating as a procedural, documenting the team's recent forays into Syria, Libya, and Turkey, the representational mode is largely sentimental and littered with plastic ironies, such as when Anna, dressed in an abaya for disguise, is driven by a wall reading «freedom,» while T. Griffin's somber music provides the scene's outro.

Such things, and I'm not naming them all because you'll want to uncover them yourself, include picking up material while mounted on your horse - thingy and repairing your horse - thingy should it get damaged (I'm sure you have some sentimental value to your riding companion, so don't let it perish).

What the piece perhaps aims to prove is that so much of what one would assume is CGI was shot practically (such as the motorboat sequence and the fire stunts), though it's also a love letter to a close - knit production whose sometimes drippily sentimental narration gives it the feeling of a video meant for private screening at the wrap party.

But who are they to quibble with such a popular escapist fantasy which never takes itself seriously, yet somehow still resonates perfectly with the overly - sentimental, puppy love inclinations of passionate, prepubescent females?

Director Jason Reitman is known for smart, sassy films such as Young Adult and Up In The Air, so this sentimental melodrama is a surprise.

The film, though apparently set in the present day, lacks the plugged - in vibrancy of recent teen films such as «Superbad» or the underrated «The Girl Next Door,» leaving «I Love You, Beth Cooper» feeling more like a sentimental look back than a more lively expression of contemporary youth.

A sentimental supernatural fantasy baseball pic that at times seems too pushy to get across baseball as a purely innocent game and to believe such nonsense requires the viewer to suspend disbelief.

The film's frenetic action consists of wave after wave of mindless mayhem intermittently interrupted by sentimental reminders that God is on our side and by simplistic sloganeering such as «Marines don't quit!»

With such screenwriting credentials and illustrious cast at the helm, it would be safe to assume that Fogelman should be able to elevate the over-familiar narrative of sentimental self - discovery into a refreshingly contemporary and cautionary tale about the malignancy of greed and success.

Such image - based storytelling regularly elevates «Louder Than Bombs» from the shadow of the mediocre, sentimental trappings around each corner.

Sean Penn (Milk) upset sentimental favorite Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) in the Lead Actor category, while Kate Winslet (The Reader) won for Lead Actress because she was the only Brit nominated and since she did such a great job of turning a Nazi pedophile into a sexy and sympathetic character.

In the hands of a less capable filmmaker than writer - director Raymond De Felitta, the epic comic - tragedy of it could merely have referred to the film itself, which is laden with the potential to be everything that such small, personal, indie filmmaking is: self - conscious, sentimental, precious.