But soon the story begins taking sentimental turns, and even Ms. Stone's startling ferocity gets buried in sludge.

Let us not depart from the sentimental turn our conversation had taken.

Miss Jett is good too, snapping her way angrily through confrontational scenes and musical ones alike, and taking a sentimental turn just when the story does.

Spunky and Sentimental The play is by turns spunky and sentimental.

He makes Prokofiev's sentimental turns positively shine and cuts through his complex sarcasms like a razor blade.

As a writer, Mr. Innaurato has an intense operatic voice, by turns comic and sentimental, that lingers in the ear.

The story takes a deeper, more sentimental turn when it touches on how the narrator's powers betray him with his next of kin.

His highly melodic treatments, by turns soaring, fiery, or sentimental, provided listeners with a welcome alternative to the more frenzied heavily rhythmic dance music of the period.

Instead, he comes across as a mercurial, hard-charging general, by turns unforgiving and sentimental, savage and ruminative.

After the toys and the brothers work out their personality kinks, the story takes a sad, sentimental turn.