Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...features, is meant to be a casual, low-key experience. She said, “It’s the same everywhere. It’s not any fancier in Hollywood. It’s a voluntary, low-budget community run event.” Coffey echoed this sentiment: “It’s a lot more fun than one might expect to watch other people’s movies...
...survey also found that nearly six in 10 respondents are interested in solving the nation’s most pressing challenges by entering public service. That sentiment was consistent across party lines, with 68 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of Republicans saying they wanted to participate in service...
...incursions hurt that fight, Pakistani officials say. Opinion polls routinely show that an overwhelming majority of ordinary Pakistanis oppose U.S. actions inside their country. The government has to respond to public sentiment, leading to harsh, uncompromising language from political and military leaders. General Ashfaq Kayani, Musharraf's successor as military chief, has publicly railed against U.S. operations on Pakistani soil, saying they help the cause of the militancy; he has promised to protect the borders from such incursions. After the September 25 incursion, chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told TIME that Pakistani troops would hereafter shoot...
...Before endorsing Obama, Powell said he was dismayed by the direction and narrowing of the Republican Party in recent weeks, and that the U.S. needs a transformational leader to restore the country's reputation overseas. He was perhaps most powerful when he filleted the GOP for seeding anti-Muslim sentiment around the country when its many seconds suggest that Obama is not a Christian. Powell said Americans needed to keep a different image in their minds: that of an American Muslim mother of a Bronze Star-winning Army solider who died in Iraq resting her head...
...surprisingly virulent strain of prejudice and intolerance. The combination of anti-Arabic tensions arising from our nation’s war in the Middle East and a presidential candidate with a “terrorist” name has lent itself to a mushroom cloud of anti-Islamic sentiment, sanctioned by an unquestioning public...