Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These autumn evenings, she likes to reminisce about happier days. Recently, she surprised some guests by singing the German words to a sentimental old waltz that she and the duke first heard in Vienna long ago. Translation:
From The Ginger Man on, J.P. Donleavy's novels have been simultaneously cruel, sentimental, repetitive and sporadically funny. Donleavy heroes are ridiculous figures who wallow in self-pity behind their mannered fronts and anesthetize deep personal hurts with sex and alcohol. Like Cornelius Treacle Christian, the errant knight in...
IF SENTIMENTAL considerations were the only ones to come into play, the decision to locate the memorial library to John F. Kennedy '40 in Cambridge might be a good one. Cambridge is, after all, an academic center close to Kennedy's family home and political base. But the weight of...
Time--at least the 70 years since Sullivan's death--judged differently. The taste for Victorian serious music, meaning music composed in classically-established forms, went into decline as the self-satisfaction of late nineteenth-century society was eclipsed by a far less sentimental age of world wars and totalitarianism...
What saves this garishly sentimental first love story are entertaining exchanges between the. hypochondriac mother and her sarcastic son. Landon displays a slashing wry sense of humor that in another context might have been brilliant.