Word: sentimentale
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In an Undergraduate Council meeting filled with sentimental thank-yous and pride at its accomplishments this semester, several council members expressed regret last night at having allocated more than $10,000 for two campus concerts that never took place.
Unfaithful (May 10): As his hair gradually turns a whiter shade of gray, Richard Gere’s name has increasingly become synonymous with overly sentimental and painfully earnest “adult relationship” movies. The question is, did Gere learn his lesson after the astoundingly unsuccessful Autumn...
A review in Publisher’s Weekly called the style “sentimental and effusive” and another reviewer in Booklist said the narrative was “overwritten and melodramatic but engrossing to the end.”
The new book has garnered mixed reviews for its literary qualities—many passages are taken directly from Charles Dickens’ novel, Bleak House, among other sentimental 19th-century works.
Cue a traditional romantic ending to what has to be the crudest movie of the year, replete with white wedding dresses and cutesy music. This is a movie with a serious identity crisis: perhaps once the directors realized that it was simply too unfunny to be billed as a gross...