When supporting hopeful entrepreneurs, it was very easy to get sentimental and let hopes and dreams for their success get in the way of cold, hard, realistic thinking.
Why did he always get so sentimental about things?
She would not endeavour to entangle the old gentleman in a sentimental attachment which might deliver him over to his enemy.
A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation.
In all that he says and does he is simply repeating the lesson he has learned from his books and therefore, it is absurd to speak of him in the gushing strain of the sentimental critics when they dilate upon his nobleness, disinterestedness, dauntless courage, and so forth.
Em and Cullen had brought down several, and there had been a few trips to the thrift shop to drop off items no longer needed or of no real sentimental value.
I then expected her to explain the dress, perhaps share that it was sentimental and she had asked Mary to wear it as a reminder of a departed relative.
I feel as though a butterfly has alighted on a branch of my sentimental being.
In which case Lord Godalming, though so dear a friend, would have had no claim in the world and the inheritors, being remote, would not be likely to abandon their just rights, for sentimental reasons regarding an entire stranger.
Photographs lined the walls, pinned up with thumbtacks and tape, every wall a collage of sentimental photography.