Word: sentimentale
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Author Bjarnhof writes a sparely sculptured prose of singular beauty and keeps just the right emotional distance from his theme so that what the reader suffers is never sentimental pathos but the moving burden of bearing the unbearable. The wonder and purgative power of The Good Light is that men...
Thunderously emotional at times, monumentally high-flown at others, the symphonies glow with richly romantic colors and a kind of mystical fervor. Too often they tend to be bombastic and sentimental. But in his finest pages, as in the slow movement of Symphony No. 9, Mahler wrote some of the...
Until she died of heart failure in Hollywood last week at 58, "Shimmy Girl" Gilda Gray never forgot a single convolution of the dance that had made her famous. Sometimes, when she thought about it, she remembered those rhythmic shivers as a spontaneous creation - something that just came naturally one...
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer; United Artists) is a Hollywood vision of the end of the world. It is trumpeted as "the biggest story . . . The single most important film of our time." Last week it had a "Global Premiere," i.e., a simultaneous opening in 17 cities from Melbourne to Moscow...
Unlocking a Mind. That haunting effect begins with the eerie, keening scream of the infant Helen Keller's mother (Patricia Neal) when she discovers that her child is deaf and blind. It is warmed by the first sound of the soft, self-assured brogue of Annie Sullivan arriving from...