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And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.
And we think about Proust, we think about the sentimental bits, right?
Nothing could be less materialistic, or more sentimental, than a teenager buying brand new jeans and tearing them at the knees, because he wants to please Jennifer.
I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this.
And it also does sentimental analysis, so if I say "I love you," you're heavier to me.
We must acquire and promote a new aesthetic and sentimental education.
And the robot hasn't quite learned the human value function properly, so it doesn't understand the sentimental value of the cat outweighs the nutritional value of the cat.
Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time.
It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.
Martin Luther King said that love without power is anemic and sentimental, and that power without love is reckless and abusive.
And you begin to get very sentimental; you cultivate sentimentality intensely.
Well, indigenous people are neither sentimental nor weakened by nostalgia.
However, Evan Almighty comes nowhere near this originality and freshness that the original has, and can't decide whether it's a comedy or a sentimental movie about faith and family values.
It feels like there's more than one truly touching story hidden in the script, but at face value it's a truckload of wasted story lines and sentimental bullshit.
Natasha has a crush on Daniel, who is an ambiguous man regarding his sentimental life.
It made me laugh in places where you were supposed to cry, and made me cringe at moments you were supposed to laugh. it lacked any kind of character development which is usually crucial to a sentimental flick that this is.
Seriously, do not bother with this one unless you are a sentimental nut job or one of those pseudo-arty types that like this kind of tripe so that they may feel more cultured.
Disappointing comedy-drama with sentimental coating has Michael J. Fox ideally cast as a former child star who now runs a talent agency for thespian tots; Nathan Lane and Cyndi Lauper are his assistants.
Cheesy performances and contrived situations make this movie a sentimental bore-fest.
Director Todd Verow's unexpected turn into sentimental coming-out drama yields a predictable result: Nothing new to see here.
But the prelude pastoral scene with a young half naked couple (Caligula and Drusilla) running hopelessly through meadows seemed quite sentimental.
So, perhaps this film is somewhat valuable in countering the recent wave of sentimental crap about the forties from the likes of Steven Spielberg and Tom Brokow.
By the time they show up, the voice-overs have largely been abandoned, and it plays as a ripe soap, with a sentimental fadeout that actually plays "Silver Threads Among the Gold" as background music.
For audiences who invest their time and interest in these people, the sentimental bow on this thing can look like nothing more than a prank.
A abysmal failure at droll Irish comedy with Spacey as a thief who enjoys outsmarting the cops and his competition becoming a sort of folk hero in his own mind, this flick manages to be mildly amusing when it's trying to be funny, slightly more than boring when it's trying to be interesting, and forget sentimental or poignant or endearing though it takes shots at those qualities as well.
The story is enormously moving, without being sentimental.
The proceeding of the sentimental event, and the drama of female protagonist, lead us to a splendid ending, heavily symbolic.
Neil Labute's terrific casting and cynical direction keeps this film from becoming too sentimental while Renée Zellweger and Morgan Freeman's authentic performances give it a soul.
Call me sentimental.
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