Word: sentimentale
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What is most annoying about Lerner's adaptation is its complete lack of a moral sense. Certainly Nabokov's book wasn't written to make parents more vigilant in bringing up their children, but there is a real feeling that what Humbert has done is wrong, that he has destroyed...
The resulting work- From Here to Eternity- was considered by Mailer to be the best post-war American novel; it is also one of the best novels of any time and country dealing with military life. Its virtues are its breadth, its honesty, and its passion. Jones was a dogface...
The alumni, on the other hand, oppose equal sex admissions for more sentimental reasons. Somehow it just wouldn't sound right to sing "Ten thousand men and women of Harvard," Alumni, especially the older ones (who often happen to be the more generous ones) look back with pride upon the...
WHEN INGRID gets into the sex action too the Bauers destroy the basis of the young couple's relationship, which is the metaphysical conventions of humanist love: "trust," "belief," "basic human goodness," sentimental associations, and other banalities. In trying to understand and participate, the innocents are seduced in over their...
A sentimental Jew, Goldberg (Robert Symonds), and a defrocked Irish priest, McCann (John Markins), come to get Stanley. They riddle him with a barrage of non sequiturs, lobotomize his mind, and since he can only make horrible animal noises at the end of the play, there is a suggestion that...