Word: sentimentale
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Whipping through Woollcott's early years, Boyden maintains a constant dialogue with the audience. He interjects Woollcott's acerbic, self-deprecatory observations with venomous barbs flung disarmingly into the audience. Boyden weaves together Woollcott's conflicting guises by slipping easily from Woollcotts-as-narrator to Woollcott-on-the-scene, as...
Thomson co-author of "The Sentimental Imperialists," discussed the book, which focuses on American involvement in East Asia, in an Institute of Politics (IOP) panel.
A policy aimed at inducing Israel to behave more compatibly with American global interests does not mean abandoning or even diminishing the special U.S. relationship with Israel. Just the opposite, in fact: it might help rescue that relationship from the mistrust, misunderstandings and misconceptions that have begun to eat at...
The 62 Salomon Bros, partners, though, still had to be convinced. On July 31, Gutfreund invited them for a long weekend to a conference center in Tarrytown, N.Y., 27 miles from Wall Street. Between lunches and dinners laced with vintage wines and intermittent sets of tennis, the partners added up...
Well, not quite. But that gesture may have had a significance beyond amusement. At once witty and a little sentimental, the improbably bedecked coach was a sturdy vehicle for the royal couple to take into the future.