Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
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