Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Plus, where else will you find such overwhelming loyalty and team support? Remember when the Red Sox won the series in 2004? What other win could reduce grown men to tears of joy, and give rise to the popular sentiment, “Now I can die happy”? Guess how many people showed up to the Boston victory parade... three million. THREE MILLION! That’s more than four times the population of North Dakota. People flew in from the far corners of the world to score red, white and blue plastic beads. We have some serious...
...being female. Goodman said that whereas African Americans have overwhelmingly supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, older white women have formed the “tenacious core” of his rival Hillary Clinton’s supporters. Goodman said this demographic divide can be explained by the sentiment of many older white women that “they don’t want another young man leapfrogging his way past a woman who has checked all the necessary boxes.” Goodman also noted a generation divide that is “tenderly true of women who grew...
...Obama told a group of wealthy Californian donors at a closed San Francisco fund raiser, referring to rural blue-collar workers who have been hard hit by outsourcing and declining wages. "They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations...
...coward,” she said, her nakedness magnificent against the room’s shadows. “Even now, with all that expensive port and cheap sentiment swimming inside you, you still can’t take me. Or have you forgotten how it’s done...
...Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations...