| 单词 | sentimental |
| 释义 | sen·ti·men·tal I. 1. a. < a scientific as opposed to a sentimental appraisal of the situation — Times Literary Supplement > especially < his sincerely sentimental love for children — Sir Winston Churchill > < was profoundly sentimental; his warm, expansive heart yearned for sympathy — G.S.Haight > < in his earlier days was a sentimental liberal — J.T.Farrell > b. < the sentimental or sensuous appeal of an art — André Malraux > < was a sentimental comedy of love in the modern equivalent of a cottage — Current Biography > c. < many of our old notions … are more sentimental than accurate — W.H.Whyte > < working-class unity, both for sentimental and realistic reasons, has remained an obsession — J.G.Colton > 2. a. < are incurably sentimental, and take immoderate pleasure in the contemplation of domestic bliss — Eric Linklater > < pity without values is as sentimental as if applied to insects — Accent > < an age in which the most natural feeling of tenderness, happiness, or sorrow was likely to be called sentimental — Randall Jarrell > b. < much that is hackneyed, shoddy, and falsely sentimental is foisted upon the public under the guise of the Biblical novel — Edmund Fuller > < rant and bombast and sentimental cant of politics — Florence Converse > < works of art which have sentimental subjects (partings, deaths, waiting for a lover's return, children … praying or crying over a hurt pet) — Hunter Mead > Synonyms: < a sentimental mother cherishing every memento of the babyhood of her children > < whisky made him somewhat sentimental — Sherwood Anderson > < sentimental popular songs > < the advertising agent … must wax as sentimental over one man's soap as over another's laxative — Roger Burlingame > < theological discussion of any kind, as distinct from a loosely sentimental religiosity — C.A.Lejeune > < sentimental and cheap novels — J.T.Farrell > < compassionate without being sentimental — Gertrude Buckman > romantic implies emotion that derives from things not so much as they actually or generally are but as they may be or are imaginatively or ideally conceived, as in literature, drama, or one's waking dreams < a romantic story of love and adventure in the South Seas > < I am filled with a sense of the French romantic spirit. It soars, it expands, it engulfs you with a sweet kind of poetry that is charming, but very unreal — Irving Kolodin > < his idealism — reflected in his romantic love of country, hatred of materialism, and concept of the general interest — A.S.Link > < a romantic young lady waiting for her Prince Charming to come along > mawkish suggests a sickening sentimentality marked by gross insincerity or objectionable emotional excess < stories simpering with delight and mawkish with pathos — J.D.Hart > < his mixture of harshness and mawkish sentimentality — Peter Quennell > < murder was punished without mawkish concern or delay — C.M.Webster > maudlin suggests an excess of emotion or feeling marked by an unwarranted weeping or an inappropriately gushing expression of love, or the like < silly maudlin ballads of the suicide of young lovers > < the death of a famous actress is the signal, as a rule, for a great deal of maudlin excitement — Ben Hecht > soppy, mushy, and slushy are all informal equivalents of mawkish, soppy, chiefly British, often carrying the suggestion of silliness < a novel … soppy with manufactured emotionalism — John Cournos > < a naturally sad but never soppy poet — G.S.Fraser > mushy suggesting a driveling sentimentality < the language is mushy with sentiment and turgid with rhetoric — C.J.Rolo > < he croons with mushy sentimentality over his heroes — Anthony West > < writing mushy letters to women admirers — Stanley Walker > and slushy applying chiefly to utterances and like mushy, suggesting a sentimental or emotional drivel especially about love < slushy letters from an adolescent admirer > < slushy and woebegone songs > II. |
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