Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winchell, he jeered: "Winchell calls that work. To me, it's fun. After heavy reporting on two national conventions, turning out froth and fripperies is relaxation and relief." He will lose that job next week, when Winchell returns from vacation to turn out froth and fripperies of his own...
Naked Heroes. A pupil of his great-uncle Francois Boucher, David was brought up to be a boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off...
The old Jews of Europe had to wear long curls; many young Israelis of Tel Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of...
He made no criticism of the efficiently planned interior (which provides 60 miles of shelves, air conditioning, 665 soundproofed cubicles for individual study). Lescaze's point was simply that from the outside the new library looked like a vast stone what-is-it-a sentimental fib.
It may be, of course, that Author Greene shares with some of his readers the sentimental view of Scobie as a hero-without quotation marks. It seems more probable that he tried to write a true tragedy and succeeded in writing a suggestive melodrama, with tragic overtones and ironic implications...