Word: sentimentale
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THE RAILROAD MAN. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style) plays the title role in his sentimental 1956 drama about a 50-year-old train engineer whose life goes off the track.
To Germans, the word Heimat (homeland) has a deep sentimental significance. From political exiles such as Poet Heinrich Heine in 1831 (Ich hatte einst ein schones Vaterland) to modern-day emigres in the Americas whose eyes fill with tears at the memory of some sooty mill town in the Ruhrgebiet...
"Just sentimental, I guess," Larry O'Brien, 48, said later. The new Postmaster General had received a letter from University of California Senior Delane Roberts, explaining that a birthday package with bedroom slippers, candy and a recording of Come Share My Life had been lost in the mails for...
The last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot.
Part of the embarrassment is a reaction to the tasteless emotionalism that still surrounds the Kennedy name, a fear of being caught staring at the magazine covers with their sometimes sensational, sometimes only painfully sentimental headlines which still confront us in the Square.