Already he was beginning to feel a sort of sentiment for the depressing Quayle, as something that had once formed part of his life.
A well-marked feeling of annoyance that he should have been so silly as to tumble downstairs and sprain his ankle was her chief sentiment respecting Freddie.
Love, generally in the form of pathetic sentiment rather than of irregular passion, is the motive of all the pieces.
It implies the power of embodying some sentiment or idea of national or public interest.
They had advanced beyond them in the analytic knowledge of human nature; but, with the decay of religious belief and political feeling, they had lost much of the genius and sentiment by which the old Athenian life was characterised.
There is a charm in their language and sentiment distinct from that which is found in any other literature of the world.
Even the moral sentiment expressed is of a finer quality than the maxims of rough good sense and probity which we find, for instance, in the Trinummus.
There is a strong realism in the expression of martial sentiment in Ennius, marking him out as a man familiar with the life of the camp and the battle-field, and quite distinct from the idealising enthusiasm of Livy and Virgil[7].
His sympathy with Nature, at once fresh and large, is more in harmony with the feeling of the great poets of the present century than with the general sentiment of ancient poetry.
His admiration for him springs from a deeper source of spiritual sentiment than that of Ennius for Scipio, or of Virgil for Augustus.
But this mannerism of style, which is condemned by the good sense of Horace, is merely superficial, and does not impair the vigorous nationality of the sentiment expressed by the Roman satirist.
It remains to consider what inference may be formed from these fragments as to the character of his genius, of his imaginative sentiment and moral sympathies, and of his intellectual power.
The same author quotes two other passages, in which thesentiment and something of the language of Accius are reproduced in the speeches of the Aeneid.
Give over that false sentiment of pride which is now a weakness.
There was yet another reason which swayed Munro not a little in his determination, if possible, to save the youth--and this was a lurking sentiment of hostility to Rivers.
The sheriff knew well the hypocrisy of the sentiment with which Rivers concluded, but made no remark.
The sentiment here is not tacit, but communicable and overt.
Chivalry is by no means dead in the Teutonic breast, though the sentiment has certainly been obscured by some modern German teachings.
But if Germany was not troubled about Russia, a different sentiment was growing up in Russia itself.
The rapacity of beasts of prey is in our social life but thinly veiled--thinly veiled indeed by a wash of "Christian" sentiment and by a network of philanthropic institutions for the supposed benefit of the very victims whom we have robbed.
Every one who has paid attention to the fluctuations of popular sentiment knows how strange, how unaccountable, these are.
The Bookworm had little to say, except that people were more influenced by sentiment than they knew or suspected.
He could stop only a minute or so to talk, but he told me the sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of carrying out the whole sweeping programme.
The police are aware of what's going on, too; but they believe the sentiment of the town has heretofore been against enforcing certain statutes.
Perhaps it had, but the Chief being a politician dared not show his hand so long as he felt that public sentimentwas against any change of policy.
A whole lot of persons will soon get tired of the novelty, and public sentiment may swing around to indifference again.
Public sentiment has been aroused, and is at white heat.
The soul of any man of sentiment would rise in brave rebellion against them, and spurn them from the earth.
There does not exist a being so devoid of sense and sentiment as to covet "unconditional submission," and therefore no man in America could be with you in principle.
So extensively right was the ground on which America proceeded, that it not only took in every just and liberal sentiment which could impress the heart, but made it the direct interest of every class and order of men to defend the country.
A woman's virtue must sit very lightly on her who can even hint a favorable sentiment in their behalf.
In her conduct towards her enemy, no reproachful sentiment lurks in secret.
I have been making chair-covers instead of periods, hanging curtains instead of raising systems, and cheapening pots and pans instead of selling sentiment and philosophy.
We enjoy the lively style in which she depicts her "finds," and the bright web of sentiment and story with which she weaves them into unity.
The best of New York's monuments are the gifts either of societies formed upon the basis of a common sentiment with which society at large has no active sympathy, or of men of other nationalities.
Slowly, but not the less surely, does the succession of international industrial expositions strengthen the sentiment of peace among the nations.
This sentiment was found very comforting, and it was a great disappointment to find how little convincing it appeared to the authorities.
I find here a strong patriotic sentiment of pride and love, which is certainly well merited.
Liberty," said he, "is the most vivid sentiment engraven on my heart.
Still even hunger could not reach that noble pride which had yielded to a sentiment nobler than itself--and he smiled as he repeated, "No mendicant!
But either her courage failed, or some other sentiment impeded her seeking an e'claircissement.
This is not an inference, but the openly, passionately avowed sentiment of the white South.
There was a growing sentiment of anger among these stern men, toward the murderer who had thus cut down their friend, and a strong feeling that ordinary justice was too slight a punishment for such a crime.
But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals, and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside, is the flawless triumph of art.
Barnum, it is well known, represents perfectly the average national sentiment in this respect.
He used the poker freely, and more and more his flow of hopes turned a shade of sentiment to Sarah Jane, who smiled broader and broader, showing teeth of healthy whiteness.
These were the comic incidents of the march, but underlying all was the tragic sentiment that we might have tragic work presently to do.
When a man is heartily imbued with such a national sentiment as this, it is as marrow in his bones and blood in his veins.
But the happening of any one of a dozen things unexpectedly betrays that all this cosmopolitanism is in great measure, and so far as sentiment is concerned, a veneer and a disguise.
Her wrong-doing does not lie there; amid so many infidelities and horrors, it would be pushing delicacy much too far to require eternity of sentiment for the remains of an unbridled and bloody passion.
There is also, at this very time, a powerful Union sentiment in each of the other Southern States.
The speaker thought that the Union sentiment of Eastern Tennessee had never abated one iota; that there were thousands of good Union men there, who would hail the approach of the Federal army with sincere joy.
The Union sentiment prevails in East Tennessee five to one.
At this instant, I blush to have called forth a single sentiment in one who knows so little what love is!
But the main cause of his present and growing attachment, had been in the evident sentiment of kindness which he could not but feel Madeline bore towards him.
It was with this sentiment that Aram now gazed on Madeline.
And this sentiment towards men, at once of high disdain and profound despondency, was perhaps the cause why he rioted in indolence upon his extraordinary mental wealth, and could not be persuaded either to dazzle the world or to serve it.
Once again the language and the sentiment recall Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.
Unquestionably if the play had been put on the stage at this time, the pit and gallery would have applauded the sentiment to the echo.
And likewise with Merlin de Douai: "I never knew a man less endowed with the sentiment of the just and the unjust; everything seems to him right and good, as the consequences of a legal text.
After recovering from the first excitement of admiration there succeeded to this a decided sentiment of fear.
Thanks to the Revolution, they have acquired the sentiment of it and even the physical sensation.
No sentiment of envy, no low passion found room in our breasts.
He compared Berthier's sentiment for his person to that of a child's nurse.
In like manner he rates the energy of national sentiment in Spain and Germany too low.
I have always delighted in analysis," said he, one day, "and should I ever fall seriously in love I would take my sentiment to pieces.
Sentiment is out of fashion, I know, but never mind.
I deny myself honest affection in every association, that sentiment may never interfere at a critical hour--all this that I may see you where you deserve to be.
That evening there was a good deal about love for your neighbor--or sentiment after that pattern, in the end of that editorial.
It does not, of course, for of all women in the world, Gladys would be the last to endure cheap sentiment or cheap lace.
In this sentiment I fully agreed with him; but still I thought it better to err on the safe side, at least for the present, until we had become better acquainted with the capabilities of the craft.
She then sang us a few favourites of her own in a sweet clear soprano, and with a depth of feeling for the sentiment of the song which is but too seldom heard in the performances of amateurs.
We enlisted Mrs. Wilmington in the cause, and we've spent the day working up the Peck sentiment to a fever-heat.
Sentiment ran strong for his "old love" and those he was obliged to leave, but he was already well acquainted with both officers and men of his new unit, and soon settled down happily amongst them.
Piles of wreckage were always to be seen on the following morning, which told the tale of the previous night's work, and this long, straight piece of road holds more sentiment for the British soldier than any other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentiment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
