Word: sentimentale
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Apparently he couldn't play the flute. In Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Hjalmar Ekdal renders "with sentimental expression" a brief passage from a Bohemian folk-dance. In the Adams House version he is about to let loose when the door conveniently swings open, and we never hear a note...
It is therefore a safe assumption that if the Congress purges its ranks and overhauls its organization, it may still regain much of the public affection it has lost. Indeed, there are two powerful factors that favor such a return to grace. First, the Congress had built up a huge...
IN MY LIFE (Elektra). As the folk scene fades, the folk singers scatter. Judy Collins, one of the best, has not gone far afield to find this mixed bag of songs, some sentimental (including the title number, a sweetmeat from the Beatles), some revolutionary (Marat/Sade). Her songwriters include Leonard Cohen...
John Betjeman offered eight whimsically sentimental lines written in a large, childish scrawl:
Sir: I concur with your selection of Man of the Year, but as the mother of two of them I can't help being frightened. I fail to see much real altruism or idealism in my children or their friends. I see, rather, a perverted, sentimental self-centeredness. They...