It's yet another extravagant metaphor for heartbreak, but the lyrics are too pointed to be merely sentimental.

But because these people are so flimsily delineated, their efforts to connect feel merely sentimental and contrived.

I like it that way, though the arguments in favor of the idea are not merely sentimental and historical.

"Simonsen," meanwhile, depicts an aging loser whose affection for his mistress and daughter proves in the end to be merely sentimental.

The poor are merely sentimental, and very excusably sentimental, if they praise the gentleman for having a ready hand and ready money.

The portrait was merely sentimental and not robustly primitive, a disappointment.

To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.

This is merely sentimental argument.

This inevitably committed him to a view that proved merely sentimental.

This leap backward is the most daring of Pelecanos's many self-reinventions as a writer, running the risk of answering questions best left unanswered or appearing merely sentimental.