Word: sentimentale
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Furthermore children are an easy mark for sentimental demonstrations. Here, as in Charles Dickens, childish naivete is set against hopeless circumstances for maximum pathos.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein operetta looses a landslide of sentimental song, but its most spectacular effects are achieved by Julie Andrews and the Tyrolean Alps.
The BBC's telephone switchboards were still jammed with protesting callers when the very next night Not So Much put on a tasteless skit turning the love story of the Duke of Windsor's 1937 marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson into a sentimental-silly comic operetta. Unluckily it...
With half a dozen plots to juggle, Preminger keeps all of them interesting for at least two of the three hours spent In Harm's Way. At one moment he shrewdly plays the grimness of war against the undeniable glamour of it, next diverts the flow of sentimental clich...
Unquestioning support of the U.N., often taken as a proof of virtue, is just as sentimental as unquestioning suspicion of the U.N., often taken as proof of patriotism. When John Kennedy referred to the U.N. as "the last best hope of mankind," he fell victim to one of the oldest...