Word: sentimentale
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Then, too, both peoples are grossly sentimental, deeply unsophisticated and dangerously stubborn-the English pride being narrow-nosed, the American blustery; but the effect is equally irritating to anyone who deals with them. The English are famous for not adjusting to foreign places, but Americans don't do this...
In the past the author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism...
Much the same might be said about the evening's other surprise winner, Chariots of Fire. Named the year's best picture over such rivals as Warren Beatty's epic Reds and Louis Malle's fascinating Atlantic City, Chariots was also a sentimental favorite, an exhilarating...
Simple or sentimental, the responses to the 1981 Academy Awards proved that even in a crass and fickle realm like Hollywood, one certitude endures: audiences, including show-biz insiders, still love to be moved and to have their spirits lifted. - - By Gerald Gerald Clarke.
It was the right decision. Waugh, one of the great prose craftsmen of the 20th century, must have realized that his 14-year-old Charles was a faint carbon copy of his public school self. Ryder attends "Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same...