1.   And we eat it up every year, this hopelessly sentimental story of a miserable demon who becomes a perpetually elated saint.

2.   A sentimental family story set in the outdoors.

3.   But defectors who want out of the far right and into the respectable middle are peddling a more sentimental story.

4.   Instead, this is a more sentimental story in which two characters meet, go on the road together and become better and wiser in the process.

5.   What could have been a sentimental story remains understated.

6.   Florida still has to overcome the sentimental story of the season against a South Carolina team coached by Lou Holtz.

7.   Publishers were understandably grateful, but some critics complained that Winfrey favored sentimental stories over quality literature.