Chamberlain had disliked what he considered to be an overly sentimental attitude by both Baldwin and MacDonald on Cabinet appointments and reshuffles.

Even more devastating was a blow he rendered to the whole school of 1840s-early 1850s literature which tool a maudlin, sentimental attitude towards Russian peasant.

On the other hand, it may have some bearing on the old gentleman's sentimental attitude toward the lady. . . . I think we'll have to make a few discreet inquiries of him about his ante-prandial tryst, what?

But our sentimental attitude towards snow doesn't go back throughout history.

"There was a sentimental attitude toward them, as opposed to ignoring them or treating them as little adults."

In a music business dedicated to niche marketing, seasonal albums provide sonic accessories for every attitude an executive or musician can imagine: sentimental or cynical, awestruck or earthy, aggressive or hushed.

In the last 15 years her verse and her letters to editors have been concerned mainly with debunking sentimental attitudes toward old age.

But one of the resons I don't prefer the North is this sanctimonious, sentimental attitude expressed here.

Separatism, which represented a "vague sentimental attitude" that the island's reactionaries supported, would only cause harm.

The rest thought about this, considered the Culture's bizarrely sentimental attitude to life, and were forced to concede the point.