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Example sentences for "sentimentalists"

Lexicographically close words:
sentiment; sentimental; sentimentalise; sentimentalism; sentimentalist; sentimentalities; sentimentality; sentimentalize; sentimentalized; sentimentalizing
  1. Big Tree, through the work of the sentimentalists of Washington, was set free and sent to the Kiowa Reservation--near Fort Sill in the Indian Territory.

  2. But he said: "That would never do; the sentimentalists in the Eastern States would raise such a howl that the whole country would be horrified!

  3. The sentimentalists may try to develop the 'native mind' as they please, but they will never persuade Hindoos or Mussulmans to trust their own countrymen as they trust us.

  4. These things are commonly thrown into the shade by sentimentalists who delight in idealizing the devotees of the past.

  5. It is in this relation that the Sentimentalists find Booker Washington so greatly to their taste.

  6. And I would warn our sentimentalists to admit the nose among the features proper to heroes, otherwise the race will become extinct.

  7. She had moreover to do penance, for a wrong committed; and just as children will pinch themselves, pleased up to the verge of unendurable pain, so do sentimentalists find a keen relish in performing secret penance for self-accused offences.

  8. The sentimentalists had conquered throughout, they had been greater than she!

  9. You would have been an invaluable ally to the sentimentalists headed by Béthune.

  10. You are one of the sentimentalists I see; you must change all that.

  11. Well, then the sentimentalists among the whites devised the reservation system and the allowance system.

  12. The sentimentalists are ahead of us, not by weight of brain, but through delicacy of nerve, and, like all creatures in the front, they are open to be victims.

  13. The sentimentalists are represented by them among the civilized species.

  14. Such are the sentimentalists to us--the fat body of mankind.

  15. Sentimentalists have failed to cope with it, and the law has failed to cope with it.

  16. Sentimentalists do not like to admit the limitations of useful help, but those limitations do exist, and we should reckon with them.

  17. It is at this point that the sentimentalists are wont to fail.

  18. He was no loss to mankind, and only sentimentalists could have blamed anyone for his death.

  19. He and Isabel enjoyed the lurid picture with all the zest of sentimentalists dwelling upon the troubles of other times from the shelter of the safe and peaceful present.

  20. But, indeed, since there must be Gray Nuns, is it not well that there are sentimentalists to take a mournful pleasure in their sad, pallid existence?

  21. It's your sentimentalists that nurse up sin.

  22. The literary powers of Pope, Swift, and Young were far superior to those of the opposed school, which might have been overborne had not a second generation of sentimentalists arisen to voice its claims in a more poetical manner.

  23. The sentimentalists had long yearned for the advent of the ideal poet.

  24. The sentimentalists were maintaining that civilization had corrupted tastes, morals, and poetry, that it had perverted Man from his instinctive goodness, and that only by a return to communion with Nature could humanity and poetry be redeemed.

  25. His collection was dispersed after his death, and then sentimentalists fell a-weeping over his supposed generosity.

  26. With those sentimentalists who maintain that all bad people are mad I will have no dealings.

  27. Before five-and-twenty, at any rate, we were all sentimentalists at heart.

  28. The justification of Anne, as the potential mother of Superman, is really the justification of all the humbugs and sentimentalists whom Shaw had been denouncing as a dramatic critic and as a dramatist since the beginning of his career.

  29. Marriage is not a mere chain upon love as the anarchists say; nor is it a mere crown upon love as the sentimentalists say.

  30. Many of the passengers on the boat had stopped at a lakeside tavern to dine, preferring a good dinner to the associations which drew our sentimentalists to the spots that were hallowed by the necromancer's imagination.

  31. After all, the best hold for a lasting sensation is an attack upon some charity or public institution; show up the abuses, and get all the sentimentalists on your side.

  32. All the sentimentalists say that perfect love breeds perfect trust.

  33. And if those two bovine sentimentalists had not intruded flat-footed upon the great waste of Camber and the romance of the coming night, and Craven had yielded to his impulse and had kissed her, she might have clung to him in very truth.


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