Ordinary men will always be sentimentalists: for a sentimentalist is simply a man who has feelings and does not trouble to invent a new way of expressing them. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Review: Battle Beyond the Stars] Reference
LOOKING at Mr. Thackerays writings as a whole, he would be more truthfully described as a sentimentalist than as a cynic. From Wordnik.com. [Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Doctor John Brown] Reference
But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment -- gush and gammon -- in the proposed. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography] Reference
"sentimentalist" -- only, of course, for quite different reasons!. From Wordnik.com. [Appearances Being Notes of Travel] Reference
Mussolini thought he was more racist than 'sentimentalist'. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Gandhi, State Dinners, and the Global Family] Reference
But he's not a sentimentalist – he's a very subtle man. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Nay, the ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
This was no morbid sentimentalist; no pining, heart-broken woman. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
To the sentimentalist, then, he might appear a very selfish mortal. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Already it was clear that Lord Ashley was no mere sentimentalist out for. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
In all my vexation, I could not help turning my eye upon the sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
So did Sydney Smith, who was very far from being a blubbering sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
This is not because he is a sentimentalist, but for the very opposite reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
"Yes, a stiff utilitarian in theory, but in practice an impulsive sentimentalist.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
It is only the fool or the brute or the sentimentalist who is unterrified by nature. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
He was indeed "no sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them.". From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
She might have been a sentimentalist, but there was no room for dreaming in that fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
And here was Bookham at last, and there was the arch-sentimentalist himself waiting to meet me. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Obviously, a story so infused with grief could easily become mawkish, but Egoyan is no sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors Of Mourning] Reference
He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Dickens was not seen as a realist writer in his day, though -- more of a sentimentalist or a polemicist. From Wordnik.com. [Can writers change the world? Jane Smiley, Evan Thomas and Phillip Hoose respond] Reference
Be careful, Samuel Rowlandson, you old sentimentalist, with your faded old patch-boxes and tattered old fans. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
The talk and the music strongly appeal to robust minds, and at the same time do not repel the sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Mr. Thurston's little boy is seen to be very good, and to the sentimentalist his mere goodness is "beautiful.". From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
I do: the man; the book-worm; the toastmaster; the public speaker; the writer; the sentimentalist; the friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
Not for the good of the service, not for his country's cause, but because he was a soft-tearted sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Seting aside gauzy sentimentalist notions of fair play or gratitude, let's answer that question by posing another. From Wordnik.com. [Let Him Walk!!!] Reference
And I know it pained him, aging sentimentalist that he is, to bid adieu to such immortals as Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The NBA in Black and White] Reference
Moonbeam folk generally were the creations of a sentimentalist who would have little taste for handling unsympathetic things. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914] Reference
In spite of his real ability, Bulwer was a poser and sentimentalist, characteristics for which he was vigorously ridiculed by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Verily, EUGENIUS, the story requires but the 'decorative art' of the literary sentimentalist to make it moving, even to the modish. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892] Reference
A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
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