sentimental fool

Was he really that much of a sentimental fool?

And Bingley emerges as a sentimental fool, given to crying fits: The “gush from his eyes would surely have been sufficient to bathe a medium-sized dog: a corgi or, perhaps, a Border collie.”

“How can you describe these physical sensations, these instinctive body-wide manifestations of your mental state, without sounding like some sentimental fool?”

Sentiment Index Points to a Present Imperfect Sentiment Index Points to a Present Imperfect You can be a sentimental fool, but don't be fooled by sentiment.

I shall think of him—though as a matter of fact I shall avoid thinking of him—either as what might have been, a false concept, for of course what might have been is fundamentally inconceivable, or as what he was, a sentimental fool.