Word: sentimentales
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"This [candlelight vigil] is mostly for sentimental reasons," said Bing H. Ko, who organized the ceremony. "We're all Chinese, we've all gone through hopes which have been shattered in the last year."
In Clay's comedy, woman is only a sexual convenience, a sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious...
As prizes in all realms proliferate, the outcomes -- who wins an Oscar or a Pulitzer -- seem evermore capricious and sentimental. Not, however, in the case of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's Nobel equivalent. The Pritzker, awarded since 1979, has earned an unsurpassed reputation for rigor, good sense and...
John Steinbeck was haunted by the almost biblical travail of the Dust Bowl farmers, uprooted from their homesteads by bank foreclosures, trekking by the tens of thousands to the promised land of California, only to face brute exploitation as field hands. After two failed novels, he finally got it right...
No Extremes of Emotion. If interviewers complement you, don't jump into their arms in joy. If interviewers tell jokes, don't laugh so hard that you break furniture in the office. If interviewers get sentimental, don't cry so much you need to wipe your nose on your clothes...