After all, they had all been born in Hungary, and their relationship with Italy was but a sentimental tradition.

"Such a sentimental tradition for a modern Service," Helva murmured.

This follows an old sentimental tradition that a red rose means "true love."

A common view is that the most beautiful Campolinas are silver-grey, a position that may reflect a sentimental tradition for the first Campolina.

Derr complains that I am part of a "sentimental tradition" that finds dogs to be "loyal, compassionate, devoted, loving, guileless, pure."

Austen's works were seen in France as part of a sentimental tradition.

It is time that our bill design be dictated by logic - not sentimental tradition - to serve the needs of the seeing as well as the blind.

His melodies ride on basic chromatic harmonies that belong to an unabashedly sentimental European tradition.

The daffodil carries a rather dull sort of sentimental tradition; it simply means regards, while a geranium is a stand-by for melancholy.