Even though Stowe's novel differs from other sentimental novels by focusing on a large theme like slavery and by having a man as the main character, she still set out to elicit certain strong feelings from her readers.

Captain Georges is the nostalgic account of a wealthy young man's sentimental education and love for a peasant girl, a theme also explored earlier in his films Diary of a Chambermaid and Picnic on the Grass.

The ordinary, everyday nature of the people and the setting was emphasised in early episodes by the British music-hall song " Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner " with its sentimental evocations of a cosy community, being used as the series theme song.

His death and the pain it caused his master was a common theme in sentimental songs.

In 1981, the duo wrote a sentimental country theme to back the poem " Footprints in the Sand ," performed by Edgel Groves.

The film is known for its sentimental theme song performed by Michael Jackson.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favour of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, " No Way to Stop It ", was cut.

* Singer / pianist / songwriter Dave Frishberg's song " Matty " is a sentimental tribute to Christy.

Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes ( he called himself " the high-hatted tragedian of song ").

Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad " Hello " ( 1984 ), a sentimental love song that showed how far Richie had moved from his R & B roots.

Other significant works followed, including Colloque sentimental for voice and string quartet ( 1908 ); Eglogue d ' Automne for orchestra ( 1910 ); Vers la Princesse lointaine, a symphonic poem ( 1912 ); Au Printemps for voice and orchestra ; and L ' Arada ( The Earth ), a song cycle of six mélodies ( 1922 ).

During the 18th and 19th centuries Russian composers developed the French variety of the romance as a sentimental category of Russian art song.

Crosby and Root's first successful popular songs was " The Hazel Dell " ( 1853 ), a " sentimental ballad " described by its publisher as " a very pretty and easy song, containing the elements of great popularity ", which was released as the work of G. F. Wurzel toward the end of 1853, and was a hit, that was " one of the most popular songs in the country ", because of its performance by both Henry Wood's Minstrels and Christy's Minstrels, selling more than 200, 000 copies of sheet music ,.

The original version of the sentimental 1896 song, " Kentucky Babe ", sung from the viewpoint of an adult black man reminiscing about his childhood, contains several stereotyped lines, including " when I was a pickaninny on my Mammy's knee ".

The album generated two hit singles: " Carolina in the Pines " and his masterpiece " Wildfire ", a sentimental song about the ghosts of a woman and her horse.

* Folk singer Billy Edd Wheeler wrote and performed a song titled " The Little Brown Shack Out Back ", a sentimental look at the outhouse.

He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3, 000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad " Danny Boy " set to the tune " Londonderry Air ", the religious " The Holy City ", and the wartime song " Roses of Picardy ".

" When we first played this sentimental political campaign song ... there were objectors who thought that juxtaposing the dignified ' of thee I sing ' with a slangy ' baby ' was going a bit too far.

From the 20th century it was also used to refer to a slow tempo, often sentimental, song in a blues style.

The barcarole was a popular form in opera, where the apparently artless sentimental style of the folklike song could be put to good use: in addition to the Offenbach example, Paisiello, Weber, and Rossini wrote arias that were barcaroles, Gaetano Donizetti set the Venetian scene at the opening of Marino Faliero ( 1835 ) with a barcarole for a gondolier and chorus, and Verdi included a barcarole in Un ballo in maschera ( i. e., Richard's atmospheric " Di ’ tu se fidele il flutto m ’ aspetta " in Act I ).

Burleigh's art song arrangements of the spiritual and other sentimental songs were so popular during the late 1910s and 1920s, that almost no vocal recitalist gave a concert in a major city without occasionally singing them.

In his memoir, folk musician Dave Van Ronk claimed that the song was influenced by an old sentimental ballad, " Chimes of Trinity " by Michael J. Fitzpatrick, which Dave Van Ronk had introduced to Dylan.

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

Mammy characters were a staple of minstrel show, giving rise to many sentimental show tunes dedicated to or mentioning mammies, including Al Jolson's " My Mammy " from The Jazz Singer and Judy Garland's performance of " Swanee " from A Star is Born ( a song originally made popular by Jolson ).

The movie star Leslie Daw enters the proceedings and expresses the torchy sentimental " Love Me, or Leave Me.

D ' Urfey's ' Love for Money ( 1691 ) and Cibber's Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ) are moralizing plays and pave the way for the sentimental comedy of the early eighteenth century.

" Love Me Tender " is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music, adapted from the tune of " Aura Lee " ( or " Aura Lea "), a sentimental Civil War ballad.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

it asserts emotion without evoking it -- that is to say, it is sentimental.

They can be exuberant or sentimental, flirtatious or funny, but the only thing they seem unable to be is dull.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked, however, it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental.

Film historian Richard Griffith speaks of Capra's “... reliance on sentimental conversation and the ultimate benevolence of ordinary America to resolve all deep conflicts .” “ Average America ” is visualized as "... a still tree lined street, undistinguished frame houses surrounded by modest areas of grass, a few automobiles.

This work is composed of three one-act operas: a horrific episode ( Il tabarro ), in the style of the Parisian Grand Guignol, a sentimental tragedy ( Suor Angelica ), and a comedy ( Gianni Schicchi ).

" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

pen radio for sentimental reasons and this is how the organization is able to contact him after so many years.

Yeats was less sentimental and later remarked that " the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow.

" The New York Times ' Janet Maslin wrote, " The Professional is much too sentimental to sound shockingly amoral in the least.

The Westermarck effect, first proposed by Edvard Westermarck in 1891, is the theory that children reared together, regardless of biological relationship, form a sentimental attachment that is by its nature non-erotic.

It is said by his detractors that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, he took no trouble to have Joan commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his ( in every sense ) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical ( in terms of securing his personal objectives ) rather than sentimental ( her connections being of no direct use to him after her death ).

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

The story is a sentimental romantic tale of a young Irish woman, Kathleen Dungannon.

While much of the show is directed toward radio comedy, a portion is usually devoted to some more sentimental and sometimes dark stories put together by Keillor and others.