Word: sentimentale
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It was the fanciest shindig at the White House since the Reagan Administration started worrying about excessive opulence. But the cause was a sentimental favorite: the Princess Grace Foundation, incorporated after her death "to support educational and cultural activities with a primary focus on emerging young talent in the dance...
Fellini is not overly sentimental or insistent on this point; he is mostly having too much fun with the giddy life of the voyage. Much of the amusement has to do with unfortunate encounters between the foolish passengers, who like to believe that they have transcended the instinctual life, and...
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it: Our civilization is decadent, and our language--so the argument runs--must inevitably share in...
That inconsistency can be resolved by assigning the two imperatives, justice and forgiveness, to different functional levels, to that of Caesar and that of God. Justice is a social question, while forgiveness introduces a transcendent element: love. Weighing the injunction in the Sermon on the Mount to turn the other...
That year, Plunkett was released by the San Francisco 49ers, who had fetched him home to the Bay Area two seasons earlier, a reclamation project partially sentimental. Plunkett describes the sensation as "carrying the weight of the world," and says, "I thought about quitting." Rather, he moved over to Oakland...