Word: sentimentale
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This sentimental pap would not be so hard to swallow if it were sprinkled with a few laughs or spiced with a tingling score. But 17 of the show's 21 scenes are over before a number comes alive that really rocks the house-That man over there is...
A similar melting away occurs in the author's new novel, but what dwindles in this case is the reader's sanity. At first, all seems expert and ordinary. A novelist hears of the death of the eccentric owner of an Austrian castle whom he knew 30 years...
Inevitably, much of it turns out to be chaff; Frost, for instance, was a tireless and occasionally tiresome punster. But from the mass of letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain...
Any resemblance between the Mexico of today and Mexico in its volatile, revolutionary infancy is largely sentimental. Just as old hat is thinking of Mexico as a peon in a huge sombrero, dozing against an adobe wall. Mexico's progress is uneven, and its political system is still a...
Himself of part-Boer, part-British ancestry, Cloete has set up his characters on both sides of the war, with care for minor historical detail, and with absolute fidelity to the sentimental tradition. His chief English hero, rich and handsome Captain Turnbull, observes the battles as a headquarters officer while...