Word: sentimentale
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Sounder is not the quintessential black film (Super Fly has more contemporary truth to it), but it does have the sense of history all other black films lack. As a young boy matures and gains adult responsibility before his time, we witness the struggles of any individual in a racial...
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS. Adapted from Paul Zindel's 1971 Pulitzer-prizewinning play, this saga of a bitchy, boozy mother and the two daughters she victimizes is sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real. The elder daughter (Roberta Wallach), a...
The effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly...
To borrow a method which Balzac refined the physiological portrait, readers are known to be solipsistic, irritable, and insomniac; their version of the world is invented in sacerdotal studies where late at night, the loud voices competing about the lavish midnight supper tables described in Falubert's Sentimental Education in...
Another esteemed ruin, as far as Vidal is concerned, is the 18th century radicalism of the Declaration of Independence. In writing of contemporary American piety, hypocrisy or corruption, he evokes the ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding...