Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furious yet helpless, Lidie decides to cut her hair, disguise herself as a boy, and travel to Missouri to find Thomas' murderers. Despite the incredible danger she knows she is getting into, her good sense always keeps the upper hand. "Sentiment was a deadly thing in K.T.," she explains to the reader. "Folks back in the U.S. didn't know that about K.T., did they?" The adventures that follow, including an attempted escape north with a woman in slavery, are told with such honest simplicity that to try and recount them here would be to extinguish the spark they carry...
...Australians, however conscious we may be of the uniqueness of our culture, are often uncomfortable with the emotional expressions of nationalist sentiment which Americans take for granted. For example, we appreciate the practical need for a national anthem, but are not going to worry too much about learning is words. Our tradition tends to be ironic and skeptical; we tend to suspect that those who wave flags are trying to distract attention from other agendas...
Lamentably, libertarian sentiment has given way to aesthetic preference and paternalism. Perhaps the Harvard administration just didn't think that we looked particularly scholarly munching on sandwiches as we crossed the Yard...
Campus liberal sentiment may also be taking a different form, according to political group leaders...
...unreasonably implacable villain, a talented and idealistic young man determined to rise out of poverty, and a tender love story that ends on a poignant, not to say tragic note. And it was unaccountably named last year's Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sentiment a couple of weeks...