Word: sentimentale
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If not, some delirious need to wave American flags has surfaced, fanning a passion previously associated with burning them. The sentimental tears and cheers of the pre-Olympic torch run turned into unembarrassed howls and shrieks last week for U.S. medalists taking a transcontinental victory lap from Los Angeles to...
Almost obsessively, Dixon has doomed the protagonist of most of his stories to repeated and often farcical failures in love. Whether named Mac, Jules or Will, he is conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and...
Since Begin has suffered three heart attacks and a stroke, his health remains precarious. Speculation still flourishes on why he resigned. "He is highly sentimental," explains a former aide. "He took all the responsibility on himself, so for the time being he will not tell his full story nor accuse...
Her conversation makes it clear that she is indeed, as she says, "a flaming liberal Democrat." But no, she will not use the column to let the air out of Ronald Reagan. Politics "isn't my beat," she explains; her readers would resent it. She does take risks with...
It is the sort of sentimental journey most tourists can only dream of: the successful American's triumphal visit to the land from which obscure forebears set out for the New World generations ago. And so Ronald Reagan's four-day visit to Ireland was carefully planned as...