Word: sentimentale
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The result is not quite a masterpiece, being a shade too sentimental for that, but it is certainly a wonderfully engaging book. From the wrenching yet joyful nostalgia of the village Christmas described in the opening pages to the streets of Dublin that could be swept by love and laughter...
The process is interpreted with sensitivity and restraint by Director Irvin Kershner. Actress Ure, who in private life is Mrs. Shaw, manages to be both solidly female and delicately feminine as Mrs. Coffey. And Actor Shaw, known mostly for the stage roles he has played (The Caretaker) and the novels...
From that point, even a devoted wife cannot save Luzhin from eventual suicide, nor can Nabokov's most artful verbal games save the reader from the realization that the gently maniacal Luzhin is a sentimental stereotype. This time out, Nabokov's butterfly net has brought back only an...
To make a good show better, Disney employs all the vast magicmaking machinery at his command. The sets are luxuriant, the songs lilting, the scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection. Protean Dick Van Dyke is uneasy with his accent but nonetheless...
It must be said that this rare suppression of the Nabokov literary personality is limited to the translation itself, and that the translation occupies only part of one volume of a four-volume work. Most of the remainder is a vast, outrageous, scholarly, funny, instructive and wholly characteristic mass of...