And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.

It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.

And you begin to get very sentimental you cultivate sentimentality intensely.

Martin Luther King said that love without power is anemic and sentimental, and that power without love is reckless and abusive.

Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Or perhaps his two advisers were speaking the truth. Maybe Romney really is feeling sentimental about the Anglo Saxon heritage, even as Asian power grows.

Together, these policies would benefit Africa both immediately and in the long run. Sentimental handwringing over the brain drain, and foolish attempts at restricting people s mobility, will not.

Devoid of sentimental attachment to Israel s cause and deeply disturbed by its policies in the occupied territories, Obama represents the specter of a White House where neither love nor interests are shared with the Jewish state.

The country was bankrupt and His Majesty s colonial subjects were growing restive. The future belonged to the US and the Soviet Union, neither of which had sentimental feelings about the British Empire, let alone the Anglo Saxons.

And now let me become less sentimental, and say that saving lives which some of the aid we get does on this continent when you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

But, apart from his sentimental wartime connections to Japan, his anti Communism was incentive enough to continue warm relations with the imperial power that had brutally colonized Korea for a half century. Park Geun hye, South Korea s current president, is his daughter.

And so the next step the sixth step beyond universal compassion is this thing where you're linked with the needs of others in a true way, and you have compassion for yourself also, and it isn't sentimental only. You might be in fear of something.

But how can NAM help its members when nothing else unites them? According to Kanwal Sibal, a former head of India s foreign service, India s own experience of NAM in areas of its core national interest has been most unsatisfactory, which is enough reason to shed any undue sentimental or ideological attachment to the movement.