Word: sentimentale
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Apples & Pictures. Malraux is both irritating and sentimental when he tries to give art for art's sake a religious mystique. Art to him is an "anti-destiny," man's only means of asserting himself in a meaningless universe. He equates sacred and profane works of art by...
Nixon's election would be a triumph of sentimental mediocrity.
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his play, Dore Schary enshrines Franklin Roosevelt, but also provides a stirring, often heavily sentimental drama.
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his play, Dore Schary enshrines Franklin Roosevelt but also provides a stirring, often heavily sentimental drama.
Gradually, in a rambling way. Pagnol builds up a fine store of memory, characterized by the special blend of feeling -love of life combined with a shrugging irony about its limitations-that marks the best of his films and plays. Some of Author Pagnol's anecdotes are a little...