Word: sentimentale
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Some scenes have the bizarre beauty of surrealist painting, and all are skillfully crafted. The final glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed...
In an introduction to the exhibit, Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald wrote: "The covers represent only a fraction of TIME's coverage of French affairs. But they outline the changes both in the American view of France and in the institution known as the newsmagazine." Stanley Hoffmann...
(5 of 12) Stanley Hauerwas: "This search for a humane way of killing is a bunch of sentimental secular humanism. Why do you want it to be humane? To reassure yourself?"
With these dramatic scenes from Thatcher's sentimental journey, Argentines were uncomfortably reminded of a lost war that became a national humiliation. Argentine President Reynaldo Bignone branded Thatcher's trip "a new act of provocation and arrogance." Washington, which was not forewarned of Thatcher's gesture, was...
That's all right, though. It is persistence, rather than big talent or bold-stroke heroism, that Honkytonk Man wants to celebrate. If there is a certain amiable reserve about the way the movie states the knothead's case in its early passages, that only makes its conclusion...