Each was a self-contained, sentimental tale with a beginning, a middle and an end.

The humor captured by the writers, performers and director leavens what might be a hopelessly sentimental tale of tangled, blind romance by mail.

And Hollywood has been unusually well served by this richly sentimental tale.

The popularity of his novels, which are sentimental and didactic tales of domestic life, was remarkable.

This premise sets up a predictable, sentimental tale of a young man whose arm is being twisted into a painful, traditional shape.

He was respected in his field but seldom read by the general public until 1994, when he published "D-Day," a sentimental tale about rank-and-file soldiers.

The site's consensus is that the film is "a sentimental tale that reveals great emotional truths in American history."

It's a nice sentimental tale he tells, but in telling it, Bonds ignores the facts of his free agency in December 1992.

Most continue to produce sentimental, obvious, didactic and ultimately political moral tales.

She would tell Kavanagh when next she saw him, how wrong he had been with his sentimental tales of calm beneath the sod.