A less sentimental portrait of Bob need not have stinted on the raw emotions that accompany his experience, and might have done a stronger job of driving that experience home.
This duet for Jim May and Lorry May, who had often worked with her in the past, was a heartfelt yet never sentimental portrait of middle-aged lovers.
The professor's wife has a sentimental portrait of Goethe that outrages Harry, who makes some rude remarks and leaves.
And even when these ancient inscriptions do appeal to us, there is the possibility that we are over-influenced by a sentimental portrait, which leaves out all the complexities of living relationships.
To say that Obama is somehow a victim, however, is a sanitised, sentimental and inaccurate portrait of the man.
Far from being on the subject of ghosts and the supernatural, Morton's book is instead a sentimental portrait of historic London juxtaposed with contemporary (1930s) London.
In later years, he painted sentimental portraits and made Schadographs.
There was a feeling that his sentimental portraits of eccentric, dispossessed outsiders belonged to an earlier time, an era still flavored with the individual-worshiping whimsy of the 1960's.
Barber became a very popular sporting and animal painter, specialising particularly in sentimental portraits of dogs, often with children.
Aldiss and Wingrove noted that "As a sentimental portrait of the alien [the series] out-Simaks Simak."