Word: sentimentale
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On the wall, and somewhere under this tumulus of pedantry, is a minor artist with some distinctly good moments and a reliable bag of tricks, whose work can be enjoyed on its own terms without loading it with significance. All his paintings in the show -- with one exception, an inertly...
The characters that Harnick and Bock have created condone social stereotypes of men and women: Eve is interested in her gardening, while Adam, with echoes of My Fair Lady's Henry Higgins, thinks Eve's emotions are "sentimental hogwash."
IT GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer...
Andrew Watson plays Alfred III, Claire's Childhood Sweet heart. As the rather serious, sentimental mayor-to-be of today, Watson is consummately convincing. But he does not succeed in making the darker side of himself--the coward, the sinner, the betrayer--seem real. The viewer will remember him nonetheless...
But as this show makes clear, the high point of Lautrec's art is not the cabaret scenes, bursting with character and morose, raucous appetite, so much as the late brothel pictures, which fluctuate with such marvelous ambiguity between desire and repulsion, between the sentimental and the caricatural, while preserving...