Although value is ascribed to the caring expressive functions, especially those of motherhood, it is frequently of a somewhat sentimental and patronising kind.

She said that while she was somewhat sentimental about the pageant, it is hard to worry about the pageant's departure.

In the 19th century the dominant figures were Hokusai and Hiroshige, the latter a creator of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints.

The movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but Ms. Braga almost makes it work.

In the 19th century, the dominant figure was Hiroshige, a creator of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints.

The somewhat sentimental mood of most contemporary folk and country songs were revitalised under her lively swing and blues singing style.

"Midnight" is a modest, somewhat sentimental film whose appeal may lie as much in its evocative location as in the story it tells.

They are pleasantly told tales somewhat sentimental and rhetorical in style, sincerely religious and didactic in theme.

I was born in China more than 70 years ago and each year around the time of the Chinese New Year, I become somewhat sentimental.

Down the hall, Mr. Rekevics, he of the sledgehammer, was also in a somewhat sentimental mood.