Word: sentimentale
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But what made this ceremony truly revolting had to be the awards themselves. This was the first year in which Oscars were completely overrun by what I like to call We are the World syndrome. Don't get me wrong; there's always been a place for sentimentality in the...
Donald notes that "Wolfe's fundamental concern was less with political and economic conditions that with the spirit of America." And the spirit of America was, of necessity, one which he had felt in his own soul, deeply, at times abstractly if not outright vaguely, in exhortations and patriotic rumblings...
Two of the fastest-rising independent companies are Hemdale, which started in London and moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and Cinecom, a four-year- old Manhattan firm. Hemdale, the producer of Platoon, quickly followed up with Hoosiers this year, a much praised sentimental film about an Indiana basketball team...
The sentimental dreamers in the party still look at the nomination of Geraldine Ferraro as a bold and worthwhile gamble. The cynical realists don't want to take risks any more. They just want to win.
Some people's attachment is sentimental, not, of course, to imply Freudian. "When I was a freshman in high school in Detroit, I had to have a place that I could tell my parents I was going," says Jeff M. King '88. "So my girlfriend and I would constantly go...