"Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th century poetry.

The band's sound also changed, moving to a much happier punk playing sentimental themes like love and relationships.

As a result, his barbs are blunted and sentimental themes touch on the treacly.

So too, the film focuses on criminals, prostitutes, and vagabonds, and develops the novel's sentimental, rather than political, themes.

The image of the woman standing behind her man and his job became a sentimental theme in union literature.

The healing power of love is her sentimental theme here, and the ideas in the text are more grandiose than grand.

His subjects were usually set in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries with sentimental, romantic and humorous themes.

But the heart of his stump speech involved a much more sentimental theme.

Lyrics written for parlour songs often have sentimental themes, such as love songs or poetic meditations.

The hands touching the chest is a sentimental theme typical of Lotto's works.