Word: sentimentale
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A sentimental appeal is about the only one the work offers. It has its delightful emotive effect and then, when the weeping subsides, one comes to grips with the work itself. I found myself asking, among many questions, why Alma can so courageously accept the news of her nephew's...
The Nephew is in this sense a necessary step towards a questionable goal. In fact, it may well contain the most personal writing Purdy has ever done. Yet, it lacks the richness of character and incident that made Malcolm so spectularly good and does not convince us of its basic...
Britain's Royal Academy had spent four years assembling the big exhibition, and among the lenders was Queen Elizabeth herself. The artist on view was Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., whose sentimental canvases made him one of the most successful painters of the 19th century. Reversing this judgment, the 20th...
The playwright's skill is relentlessly dogged by his own heavy-handedness, and by John Huston's dull direction. Miss Monroe's final question, for instance, asks, "How do you find your way back in the dark?" Now this question is subtle; it is the very one that Miller is...
The novel is not merely a sentimental binge. Paris, Venice and the Riviera shimmer before the reader's eye like mirages evoked by Remarque's lovingly descriptive touch. And he has more than a trace of the gift that Cyril Connolly once noted in Hemingway of "saturating his...