He warns that excessive emotion and
sentimentality get in the way of good sense and rational, mature virtuous conduct, in private lives, public discourse, and policy making.
"So forget about the
sentimentality, forget about it being the WBA title; it's just we have got to go out there and perform and win."
Another level of the argument examines the ways in which cultural stereotypes have contributed to the development of a purer form of "Spanishness" as manifested in the themes of morality and
sentimentality in the writing of Eugenio Carre Aldao.
It would be tempting to present the anti-sentimental rhetoric used by sturdy colonists as part of a 'feminisation of
sentimentality' taking place over the course of the long nineteenth century.
"There is a
sentimentality about the World War II but what about all the rest of them - all the illegal wars?"
In the article, he said of Williams: "He made no secret of his addiction to drugs and alcohol but there was another addiction - to saccharine, tooth-rotting
sentimentality. Were the bad films made when drink or drugs played their part?" Norman criticised the "tearful
sentimentality" of the father played by Williams in major hit Mrs Doubtfire.
Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) takes delivery of Solomon and ignores his pleas for leniency, snarling, "My
sentimentality stretches the length of a coin".
It really boils down to three factors: condition, intrinsic value and
sentimentality. Condition will determine the degree of restoration required, and will begin to paint a picture of how expensive things will get.
As I read Elizabeth Barnes's new book, Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and
Sentimentality in the American Imagination, I was reminded of Ralph Waldo Emerson's metaphor for the threat inherent in the experience of sympathy: "A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him" (Emerson 324).
Sentimentality in contemporary poetry is often disparaged, though as Joy Katz has noted, such was not always the case: "Modernism ...
He believes that once a business case is made, then that should take priority over
sentimentality shown by those who want to protect the site.
This interesting work on the sociology of computing examines the interaction of
sentimentality and computing and explores the ways in which current and future technologies might allow for the retention of the heirlooms and memories of the digital age.
Sentimentality rating, out of 10: 10 Longevity rating, out of 10: 5 DAVID BOWIE - KOOKS Bowie was allegedly at home listening to a Neil Young record when he received news of the birth of his son, Duncan (or Zowie), and set about writing this Youngesque tribute to the newborn.
They are discomforted by the poem's pathos, piety, and passion--its "
sentimentality"--and therefore judge it as "artistically weak or defective." (3) Unwilling to apply aesthetic evaluation to the poem's
sentimentality, critics say such writing is beneath aesthetic consideration.
