Word: sentimentale
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THERE'S NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt," Norman Mailer once remarked. We have, Mailer thought, a deep, profoundly sentimental need to believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness...
In fact, far from being simple and banal, the final monologue is turgid and confusing. The closing act abandons comedy altogether for a sentimental affirmation of life as something to cherish by mixing a heavy dose of Thoreau with Davis' own ardent declamations. The rather opaque passages from "Higher Laws...
Morgan Freeman's virtuosity is no surprise. He has been cheated out of at least two Academy Awards (for "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption"), both times losing to sentimental favorites: actors playing physically or mentally disabled characters (Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Foot" and Tom Hanks in...
Best of all, apparently, she liked Marcel Duchamp, artist and gigolo to the rich, who appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp...
What about American pride? "The only downside is the sentimental loss," says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of New York-based Television Digest. "But this is a worldwide market. People don't know where their TV sets come from. Their picture tube may come from the U.S., the circuit board may...