And this, along with his tendency to sermonize, leads him away from his book's true strength: his warm, unabashedly sentimental celebration of the American family.

The Dallas fans, who had celebrated the championship last season, stood near the glass and watched the sincere and sentimental celebration of the Devils players.

Off I went for another celebration, sentimental and weepy about the new life that had come into mine, and I envisaged great prospects for my children.

Not for Lardner was the sentimental celebration in which others of the sportswriting fraternity indulge.

This is a sentimental celebration of girlish innocence, and Ms. Soviero was jumpy and hyperactive, as if she had drunk too much coffee.

On Neil Armstrong Day I would gift my beautiful bride with this sentimental celebration.

Hilton's books are sometimes dismissed as sentimental celebrations of English virtues.

It was suffused with faith (it ends with a sentimental celebration of timeless love) and incredulity (it often takes nothing seriously).

The main goal seems to be a sometimes campy, sometimes sentimental celebration of black female sexuality, used uninhibitedly to subvert other art.

Led by a middle-aged frontman, Mimmo Siclari, and equipped with two guitars and an incongruous tambourine, their songs are a sentimental celebration of extreme violence.