Word: sentimentale
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Tragic, comic and sentimental as only Irish plays can be, The Plough and the Stars is one of the plays that has made Ireland's Abbey Theatre world-renowned (not only as a center of culture, but as the focus of controversy). The Plough and the Stars was chosen for...
Hough moves with an essayist's grace from lemonade to his dislike of meetings, from Virginia Woolf to George Borrow. He is never sentimental, but he does not give up on old affections either. He is master of the splendidly abrupt transition: "In December 1971 I threw out all...
"He had an extraordinary faith in reason," Freund said, "some might say a pathetic faith in reason." But Brandeis was not sentimental, Freund said, adding, "He could be quite tough-minded."
Barges by Night. Childers' book is full of suspense, as well as love and art and old-fashioned patriotism. From the tale's opening in Edwardian London to the young adventurers' discovery of a Teutonic scheme for dragging troops in barges to England by night, Riddle'...
It makes for an awkward occasion: a group of gifted people working so far below their best talents that everything takes on the giddy air of a runaway charade. Director Vincente Minnelli, a flamboyant, lushly elegant stylist, has been responsible not only for some of the greatest movie musicals (Meet...