Possible Clues:

• Sentimental Tennyson poem, bird avoiding net
• Weepily sentimental
• Democrat in drubbing, almost tearful
• Uniform worn by crazy student, trendy and emotional
• A mild UN broadcast that gets half-cut?
• Sentimental woman gets nothing in return
• Self-pitying politician, finally removed
• Emotional Larwood at close lashed by savage batting
• Tearjerking
• Soppy, lachrymose