Word: sentimentale
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Heady Enough. In Paris there were stout denials that Malraux's words had any political meaning-only cultural and sentimental. But the sentiments were heady enough. At Montreal's city hall, a wave of emotion swept the crowd when Malraux declared: "I say to you, French Canadians, that...
A café owner heard and hired her. He dressed his tiny discovery in a simple black dress and changed her name from Gassion to Piaf-argot for "little sparrow." The scrawny singer with the hoarse, throbbing voice that seemed far too powerful for so small a source was an...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his...
B.O.M. readers, who get the book this month, will find it as soothingly sentimental as its heroine-a woman who somehow never seems large enough for the emotions she is supposed to feel.
Two Daughters juxtaposes two seperate genre films about small-town Indian girls. The first film is frankly sentimental, but should appeal to anyone not embarassed by sentimentality. It describes the relationship between a young, orphaned servant girl and her master, a Calcutta postmaster assigned reluctantly to her provincial village. They...