The good block, bad block idea of New York is by now a sentimental notion here.

Those are the woolly sentimental notions of a weak and cowardly woman.

Forget the sentimental notion of an athlete going out on top, he told her.

I've had a few romantic or sentimental notions myself, from time to time.

But what a relentlessly sentimental notion of a fairy.

There was no use clinging to sentimental notions of good and evil.

Joe instilled sentimental notions of exploration and space flight into him from an early age.

Modern artists, according to sentimental notions, aren't supposed to be anchored at home.

"It made me cross," snaps the local postmistress, referring to the sentimental notion that city folks have about country living.

Maybe I developed a sentimental notion of what a family might be.