Sentimental
adjective
Showing or full of deep emotional feelings and memories.
She kept all the love letters from her husband in a sentimental desire to remember his words.
Often appears as...
- sentimental value
- sentimental journey
adjective
Tending to be influenced more by emotions than by reason.
His sentimental approach to decision-making often led him to make unwise choices.
Often appears as...
- sentimental tears
- sentimental weakness
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Disapproving
adjective
Showing or full of deep emotional feelings and memories.
She kept all the love letters from her husband in a sentimental desire to remember his words.
Often appears as...
- sentimental value
- sentimental journey
adjective
Tending to be influenced more by emotions than by reason.
His sentimental approach to decision-making often led him to make unwise choices.
Often appears as...
- sentimental tears
- sentimental weakness
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Attachment
Use 'sentimental' for objects that remind you of happy memories but might not be valuable to others.
This tattered teddy bear has sentimental value to her.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Nostalgia
'Sentimental' captures a longing for the past, often relating to personal history or tradition.
Watching old films is a sentimental activity for me.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Emotions
'Sentimental' implies emotions can quickly surface, especially when recalling past experiences.
He became sentimental when he visited his old school.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Attachment
Use 'sentimental' for objects that remind you of happy memories but might not be valuable to others.
This tattered teddy bear has sentimental value to her.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Nostalgia
'Sentimental' captures a longing for the past, often relating to personal history or tradition.
Watching old films is a sentimental activity for me.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Emotions
'Sentimental' implies emotions can quickly surface, especially when recalling past experiences.
He became sentimental when he visited his old school.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Attachment
Use 'sentimental' for objects that remind you of happy memories but might not be valuable to others.
This tattered teddy bear has sentimental value to her.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Nostalgia
'Sentimental' captures a longing for the past, often relating to personal history or tradition.
Watching old films is a sentimental activity for me.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Emotions
'Sentimental' implies emotions can quickly surface, especially when recalling past experiences.
He became sentimental when he visited his old school.
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4 ways to build a human...
and that we use our organizations to create that feeling for others. Beauty can save the world when we embrace these principles and design for them. In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism. We must acquire and promote a new aesthetic and sentimental education.
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The wicked wit of Jane...
to arguing that masks attraction, her work explores the bewildering collision of emotions and etiquette. But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time. Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly.
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President Obama and...
was growing up even if you were unsentimental about that in very hard-headed terms you've got to worry about the national security implications of this and the capacity for the existing world order as we understand it to survive the kinds of strains that the scientists are predicting with that
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A global hackathon to...
and i think yeah that's amazing how amazing good luck i just wanted to close and i will hand over to chris and to corey but you wrote this really beautiful piece on linkedin about the motivation for doing this um and maybe this is just because i'm sentimental these days but i
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Houdini the ferret bites...
he puts the mental in sentimental I think it's quite amazing we have been around so many different species all over the world but this has been the most traumatic encounter I've had all you had anyway this is you know probably the first time in my career
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Parag Khanna maps the...
What is the lesson from all of this? Geopolitics is a very unsentimental discipline. It's constantly morphing and changing the world, like climate change. And like our relationship with the ecosystem we're always searching for equilibrium
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Inside a Baby Sloth...
hey baby I get to whom the momentum muy sentimental but I think yeah this is a very SEM part is a sentimental moment for us so but we're happy we're not sad what happened this is happy peace no sad
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Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...
It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:...
You don't care what it is! You just want the person to be alive! And now let me become less sentimental, and say that saving lives -- which some of the aid we get does on this continent --
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
and I lost my eyesight and was partially paralyzed. And my family brought in a woman whose mother had been a slave to take care of me. And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.
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4 ways to build a human...
and that we use our organizations to create that feeling for others. Beauty can save the world when we embrace these principles and design for them. In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism. We must acquire and promote a new aesthetic and sentimental education.
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The wicked wit of Jane...
to arguing that masks attraction, her work explores the bewildering collision of emotions and etiquette. But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time. Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly.
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President Obama and...
was growing up even if you were unsentimental about that in very hard-headed terms you've got to worry about the national security implications of this and the capacity for the existing world order as we understand it to survive the kinds of strains that the scientists are predicting with that
Video examples
A global hackathon to...
and i think yeah that's amazing how amazing good luck i just wanted to close and i will hand over to chris and to corey but you wrote this really beautiful piece on linkedin about the motivation for doing this um and maybe this is just because i'm sentimental these days but i
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Houdini the ferret bites...
he puts the mental in sentimental I think it's quite amazing we have been around so many different species all over the world but this has been the most traumatic encounter I've had all you had anyway this is you know probably the first time in my career
Video examples
Parag Khanna maps the...
What is the lesson from all of this? Geopolitics is a very unsentimental discipline. It's constantly morphing and changing the world, like climate change. And like our relationship with the ecosystem we're always searching for equilibrium
Video examples
Inside a Baby Sloth...
hey baby I get to whom the momentum muy sentimental but I think yeah this is a very SEM part is a sentimental moment for us so but we're happy we're not sad what happened this is happy peace no sad
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Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...
It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:...
You don't care what it is! You just want the person to be alive! And now let me become less sentimental, and say that saving lives -- which some of the aid we get does on this continent --
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
and I lost my eyesight and was partially paralyzed. And my family brought in a woman whose mother had been a slave to take care of me. And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.
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Kourtney Kardashian
American Celebrity
I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts.
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Gilbert Hernandez
American Artist
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
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Paul Simon
American Musician
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
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Flannery O'Connor
American Author
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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Jose Jose
Mexican Musician
What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world.
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Julia Stiles
American Actress
I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
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Joanna Coles
American Editor
I am deeply unsentimental.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.
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Kourtney Kardashian
American Celebrity
I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts.
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Gilbert Hernandez
American Artist
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
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Paul Simon
American Musician
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
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Flannery O'Connor
American Author
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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Jose Jose
Mexican Musician
What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world.
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Julia Stiles
American Actress
I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
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Joanna Coles
American Editor
I am deeply unsentimental.
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