Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This unparallelled singlemindedness stems from what Paige identifies as the sincerity of many anti-abortionists as opposed to the political opportunism of other right-wing groups ostensibly backing the issue. At its most convincing, this pro-life sentiment struck a responsive chord in those uncomfortable with the convulsions of a society modernizing at breakneck speed. One of the movement's leaders challenged abortion as a building block of a society that would be "engineered," not created...
...stiff opposition from Polish communist leaders and more obliquely from Soviet officials. Sandwiched between these opening and closing chapters are flashbacks to earlier Polish history. The reader is supposed to reach the concluding chapter with an even greater sympathy for the David of the situation, but Michener forces the sentiment...
...Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical events, devoid of sentiment. One marriage ended in divorce, another in bitter estrangement. Two of his sons left home as early as possible, while his daughter conceived an incestuous attachment to him that ended in her suicide...
Menell expresses a similar sentiment, saying "the white government has very smartly and deviously polarized and fragmented the Black political groups in South Africa. There are no credible Black leaders because they've all been killed. The government is no more than a group of fanatical fascist pigs who, with a sort of evil genius, realize that if a Black government were to come to power, the whites would have no place in South Africa...
Menell expresses a similar sentiment, saying "the white government has very smartly and deviously polarized and fragmented the Black political groups in South Africa. There are no credible Black leaders because they've all been killed. The government is no more than a group of fanatical fascist pigs who, with a sort of evil genius, realize that if a Black government were to come to power, the whites would have no place in South Africa...