Word: sentimentalist
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...liberal softy, I oppose the death penalty, but I'm not a sentimentalist about it. There are many other circumstances in which the state sanctions the death of its citizens for policy purposes. The decision to go to war is the most obvious example, but even the less dramatic decision to build a major tunnel or bridge contains the statistical probability of deaths in the process. We live with it. Furthermore, a quick and relatively painless end strikes me as preferable to echoing decades in the typical, miserable state prison with no hope of parole -- the death-penalty opponents' favorite...
...Justice would have been surprised by the breadth and intensity of this outpouring of gratitude. A strong and consistent liberal, he was no sentimentalist. He possessed a rather dim view of human nature, a view nurtured by his constant battling against social cruelties and reflected by the nature of the stories he loved to tell...
...their newest animated feature, Aladdin, Disney retells the classic tale of Aladdin and his magic lamp, creating a colorful and imaginative web of romance and illusion. Featuring the vocal talents of Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried, Aladdin is sure to be a memorable film that will appeal to the sentimentalist...
...Conscience of the Eye is not a sentimentalist tract. It issues no call for a neoclassical revival, for an America dotted with cinderblock Romes and girdered Spartas like some overgrown theme park. Rather, this extraordinary book attempts to rebuild the Roman civitas and the Greek polis as much in our selves as in our surroundings. It proposes to break down walls and open up spaces to reveal vistas too long blocked off from view. And even if this book causes no cities to be razed or rebuilt, it will surely broaden avenues in its readers' minds
...transnational, daylight pours in. Certain shadowy and thunderous effects upon which charisma and old leadership depended have now become impossible. The New Paradigm is not haunted by the furies and ghosts of its parents. It looks upon the world with a disconcerting alien's eye. It is not a sentimentalist...