sentimental

Preposition: about

• animal: Loving is Easy. Caring Costs It's easy to be sentimental about animals.
• thing: You should forge forward instead of being sentimental about things that have gone by.

Preposition: in

• way: So it's a bit sentimental in a way, but that's why I called it Waiting For Sunrise.
• theater: The pro-choice people accuse the anti-abortionists of being sentimental in the operating theater.

Modifies a noun

• melodrama: Sentimental melodrama, virtuous aristocrats rewarded; post-Revolutionary incidents.
• attachment: You know sentimental attachment to children will never make you do anything.
• ballad: He realized that his style was more suited to slow, sentimental ballads, which became his trademark.
• romance: It is used to structure the sentimental romance and is a primary vehicle for narrative and thematic development.
• fool: You won't remember but I was the lone sentimental fool who voted for Carol and Sybil to get back on track!
• ending: The sentimental endings have been perfected by the American Pie series more than any other sex comedy, and Band Camp is no different.

Modifying Another Word

• overly: A beautifully painted, subtly colored picture, thus saved from being overly sentimental.
• purely: Would purely sentimental values justify flying a plane which is dangerous?
• somewhat: He also had a somewhat sentimental interest in keeping material related to his family.
• too: I'm a little worried about the CR score being too sentimental, actually.
• rather: We have a rather sentimental notion of what it must mean to be a " good God " .
• never: It is full of humor and warmth, yet never sentimental.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Perhaps I am just getting sentimental in late middle age, haunted by ghosts of Christmas past.
• feel: I felt quite sentimental at the idea of leaving them.
• become: She moves the reader profoundly without ever becoming sentimental.
• seem: To ask whether it is in decline, or whether it might be a matter for serious social debate can seem sentimental.