Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps to make life easier for myself...
...Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 said that he has perceived an overwhelming sentiment that the move seriously affected social life...
Sarah E. Stein ’08 echoed this sentiment as the graduating class streamed out of the church, greeted by more than 100 camera-clutching parents...
Both of these moves sparked debate, and the first was overturned by a federal judge as unconstitutional. But the sentiment behind these moves—to help advance minorities—as well as her attention to other overlooked communities is what Radcliffe cites as the most important parts of her legacy...
...While today we might feel compelled to use the language of gender neutrality, the same sentiment prevails. We want from our leaders not an aristocrat’s aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...