Word: sentimentale
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THE HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who begins to lose his sincerity in the smugger swamps of suburbia.
Even after this unwelcome expense, the News of the World was anxious to keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World...
Calling President Pusey's ideas "The Higher Conformity," Boorstin maintained that the leading tenets of this construct are "less affirmations than fears. Fear of the Outside World. Fear of Practicality, Utility, and Applied Science. Plus a kind of sentimental refugee-attachment to Pure Ideas."
At 37, Barbirolli had been Toscanini's choice to succeed him as conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and for seven years he endured in the impossible gloom of the old man's shadow, leading an orchestra that seemed to be looking the other way. At last he...
This precious caricature was never really accurate. But it was never more misleading than when applied to John Keats, the one Romantic poet whose outward life it seemed most to resemble. Keats's life was a series of buffetings by a fate cruel enough to suit the most sentimental...