Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melodramatic and sentimental, the play fans simple thoughts into pseudopoetic blather, but the characters, especially those played by Ryan and Costigan, are piercingly true.
Jimmy Buffett's contribution to the New Country has been a sophisticated rowdiness, a wallowing in the sound of words, a degree of self-parody, and a subtly vulgar description of place and time and living. Buffett's worst moments are his most sentimental, when strings overwhelm his plain acoustic...
Alan Stock delivers a solidly one-dimensional performance as Mortimer, a sentimental youth whose lusts power his desire to rescue Mary. Reciting his lines in an undeviating sing-song, he manages to mangle a relatively uncomplicated role.
This sentimental, flawed but quite wonderful movie is about romance and reunion, about people trying to measure up to the myths created about them.
Howe, who spoke on "The Jewish writer and the American tradition," traced the evolution of Jewish authors from their expression of alienation through "gross sentimentality and self-comforting softness" to their eventual creation of an articulate style characterized by a mixture of the "sardonic and the sentimental."