Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With these two programs, coursepacks and textbooks could merge through electronic delivery, and if the sentiment of students has any impact, that level of change will soon be in the works...
...social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That's how many people feel after watching a Sandler movie...
...echoed the sentiment, stressing examples from everyday life of the need for direct sensory experience...
...anti-Cellucci sentiment was apparently universal in this community, at least among those talking. "I think Cellucci is arrogant. He's one of the have-nots, one of those politicians that you don't see until the elections when they come down and shake hands as if you're his best friend," said Stacy Burlew, toting an oversize purse and two small children. "I called down to get his statement on childcare," she went on, "but he didn't even have one. Harshbarger was able to send me a 20-page report...
...Democrats did not rely on anti-scandal sentiment alone to bring black voters to the polls...