He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood.
The modern sentimentalist works in a coarser material.
A sentimentalist is one who obeys the natural good impulses of the human heart, but whose virtue does not go much beyond that.
Now and then the suspicion had crossed Peter's mind that, in spite of all this, he was somewhat of a sentimentalist himself--things had suggested this to him.
But the penalty for being an anti-sentimentalist is that you must not talk like this even to yourself.
Anyhow, I'm not a soft-hearted sentimentalist that would just ruin the child.
True, Godstone station is incredibly far away, but conceive anyone save the sentimentalist staying the night, when within twenty miles of London and home!
He did it with the air of a sentimentalist who was aiding and abetting an elopement.
Already it was clear that Lord Ashley was no mere sentimentalist out for a momentary sensation.
Their griefs with the thing that is are loud and they are long; but I, who am a sentimentalist too, though of another make, do not share them.
Solon was also a poet, which perhaps was his best asset as a social reformer, but he was no sentimentalist if, as some say, when he was a general attacking a rebellious city he ordered the wells to be poisoned to put an end to the strife.
He's a sentimentalist of the sort I told you, and is usually utterly remorseless in his dealings with women.
Some sentimentalist had once said that no man who cared for animals could be wholly bad.
A sentimentalistof the weakest type," continued Plank obstinately; "because he sentimentalises over himself.
Rousseau, moreover, was more decidedly a sentimentalist than Cowper, if by sentimentalism we mean that disposition which makes a luxury of grief, and delights in poring over its own morbid emotions.
A mere sentimentalist might possibly have introduced it in such a way as to impress us at least with his own sincerity.
Nature was not, of course, the gentle sentimentalist Graham was talking about, but one did get something out of close communion with her.
But the favourite crime of the sentimentalist is that of a woman against her child.
But the sentimentalist has fought against Mrs. Dingley from the outset.
His early marriage attests a domestic trend, from which he never departed; though an idealist in his public aspirations and aims he was a sentimentalist in his home life and affections.
On one side he was a sentimentalist and on the other a philosopher, but on all sides a fighter.
What our imaginary sentimentalist would make of this tender passage it is difficult indeed to imagine.
The sentimentalistmakes himself a nuisance to others and soon becomes disgusted with himself.
The sentimentalist is on hand wherever there is a chance either to mourn or to rejoice.
Not long after this time, the papers - the sentimentalist papers - were furious with Lord Dundonald for suggesting the adoption by the Navy of a torpedo which he himself, I think, had invented.
Thus in most cases, even where premeditated murder is proved to the hilt, the sympathy of the sentimentalist is invariably with the murderer, to the complete oblivion of the victim's family.
Mr. Grau was no more of a sentimentalist in art than Mr. Abbey had been.
Perhaps, for our purposes, it will serve merely to say that the sentimentalist is always, in one way or another, disloyal to facts.
You cannot have your cake and eat it too; but the sentimentalist blindly refuses to accept that.
The sentimentalist who shudders at the cat and gallows forgets the worse, slow, hidden horrors that pass unseen in the felon's brain.
I was a skeptic and something of a sentimentalist when I started.
There was too much grim reality in ten-hour days spent over a machine in the stifling mill room to feed a sentimentalist whose thirty odd years were no accomplice to romance.
How indignant would the fair sentimentalist have been at a whisper of her caring for the thing before it was too late!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentimentalist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
