Word: sentimentale
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Ida Picker's play "The House on Tomorrow Street" is a delicate slice of crummy modern life. Miss Picker is really talented: she succeeds in capturing a lower class tawdriness without making it either tragic or sentimental.
Spanier's return to New Orleans was something of a sentimental journey. Dr. Alton Ochsner Sr. operated on him in 1939 for a perforated ulcer. He then gave a cornet to Alton Ochsner Jr. It was Muggsy's own idea to go back to New Orleans recently, when...
What with so many Texans present, it sometimes seemed as if it had been Jack Kennedy four years ago who really assembled the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson who was now opening up the New Frontier. If so, it was a prosperous, well-behaved and superbly dressed frontier-and a...
Students used words like "sentimental," "political," "nice-sounding," "paternalistic," or just plain "Johnson" to describe the speech. And over and over again, they used the word "corny."
Feb. 1-2-3: "Casablanca" (1942), of course, is the sentimental favorite of Bogart fans everywhere. Originally intended as just another propagandistic war-time melodrama, its appearance in theaters across the country coincided fortuitously with the allied invasion of North Africa, and with such unprecedented quantities of free publicity, the...