Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dickinson echoes this sentiment...
...Sire, do not talk to me of small projects," said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
...PEACE Anti-American sentiment sparked by NATO's strikes on Kosovo made Monica Lewinsky's Russian publisher scale back the first print run of Istoriya Moniki (Monica's Story) from 50,000 copies to 10,000. But in its first week in stores, the tome has already sold out. Says a spokesperson for the publisher: "Men and women say she may be an awful person, her book may be trash, but they'll buy it all the same." The Starr report, it should be noted, sold mere hundreds in Russia...
...Hemingway's was the art of omission andimplication rather than explication. Writers takefrom Hemingway the Biblical repetition, the artfulnonsequiter, the pacing, the avoidance of emotionthat brings on tears, the distanced voice. Theshort stories and A Farewell are enough,alone, to teach writers about this writing ofomission, writing that evokes sentiment withoutbeing sentimental, that somehow captures therhythms of both poetry and of common speech...
Money, the love of which used to be thought of as the root of all evil, is supposed to become the offsetting factor for evil, but who believes it? Payers and payees alike are powerless, stupefied. The Holocaust not only lies beyond compensation; it also lies beyond explanation, reconciliation, sentiment, forgiveness, redemption or any of the mechanisms by which people attempt to set wrong things right. In a way, that fact is as much a sign of its unique enormity as the monstrosity itself. All moral thought is grounded in the possibility of correction. Yet here is a wrong that...