Thus, when addressing the Victorian penchant for sentimental pictures of children, the curator urges viewers to stand, as it were, in the shoes of their perpetrators.
"The Gleaners," maybe his most famous and most sentimental picture, is so familiar that it's now hard to see fresh.
Is he a genial old codger, a sort of Spirit of Grover's Corners, giving you a somewhat sentimental picture of Life in small-town America?
There were wedding pictures, bar mitzvah pictures, vacation pictures, sentimental pictures of the arbor and deck that he built.
You have painted, quite wrongly to your pupils, a sentimental picture of a killing machine that does it not just for food but for pleasure.
Ah, such a pretty sentimental picture.
With home computers largely replacing filing cabinets as the secure storage place for financial records, tax returns and even sentimental pictures, the problem confronting Mr. Purnell may become more common.
There is a truly sentimental picture in it of Eva Kane's daughter in years to come.
For the film about Anne, I wanted it to be a clear picture, not sentimental or sensationalist.
In one small theater, missionaries stage a musical, presenting a sentimental picture of life in "old Nauvoo."