Word: sentimentale
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Arnold Palmer, U.S. Open and Masters champion, was a heavy 3-1 choice to win: aging Ben Hogan and ageless Sam Snead were the sentimental favorites. The oddsmakers failed to figure the crushing impact of the course-or that Jay Hebert was overdue.
To write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This...
The Apartment. The riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show his cynically sentimental view of human nature.
The sentimental side of U.S. art never vanished completely: the show has a revealing number of small animals and little girls. But the modern imagination bursts out in all directions. Isamu Noguchi's Double Bird, seen against a deep green hedge, looks like a piece of exotic calligraphy done...
The Apartment. The often riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show off his cynically sentimental view of human nature.