Word: sentimentalist
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...equally strong advocate of indeterminate sentences, with the length dependent on the individual rather than on the crime. All this has been said before, but usually in an atmosphere of sentimentality which disgusts surfeited auditors. Whatever else one may say of Lawes, he is not a sentimentalist; he has something new to say, and his arguments ring forth hard and clear, saturated with common sense, buttressed by specific experience...
...Vagabond, it has been observed with depressing frequency, is a sentimentalist. He likes Strauss in music, Dickens in literature, Munchenbrau in drinks. From the sickly thought of divisionals and finals he turns to dream of the budding green things which on days like this defy the name of the Blue Hills; of dripping paddles moving on a quiet river: of everything which fortunate people have always done in May. He is even that worst of sentimentalists, one who loves a tradition for its own sake, and regrets its passing. New things may be best, but the old are consecrated...
...work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots...
...Museum, a repository of the Muses, that was lacking. Last week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art. Herbert Clark Hoover did not come but even he sent a message...
...last week as he stood on the dock of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard and watched the 134-year-old frigate Constitution go back into naval service for the fourth time. The occasion was a belated climax to his career as Secretary of the Navy (1924-29). Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the reconstruction of this black, chunky relic. Now he had crossed the country from California to participate in the ceremony of recommissioning, to make a speech linking...