Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other members of the committee seemed moresympathetic towards the sentiment expressed by thegovernors...
...Palestinian quoted in the Washington Post argued that whenever an Israeli kills an Arab, "they say, he's crazy, and when an Arab throws a stone, they say he's terrorist!" This sentiment, while not totally accurate, has a core of truth...
Virginia Woolf once wrote that what women really wanted was a room of their own. Marge Piercy, in her latest novel, The Longings of Women, echoes that sentiment. Yet where Woolf infused her writing with the powerful appeal of a yearning for feminine creative space, Piercy identifies this fundamental instinct as a fear of losing material possessions...
...music is overwhelmingly happy, and even the album's sad songs don't manage to convey much heartbreak. Every one of Broken Moon's songs is about relationships, but the "break-up" songs somehow seem more wistful than hurt. Granted, this is a relatively minor complaint--if the sentiment is unchanging, at least, unlike many "slow songs," every other word is not "love" or "baby...
...phone company employees. Freeh plays down that possibility, though he acknowledges that it exists. In any case, he argues, the benefits of the plan, in terms of enhanced law enforcement, outweigh the disadvantages of reduced privacy. Coming from the director of the FBI, that's not an unexpected sentiment...