Word: sentimentalization
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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...
...games. In response to this, University President Drew G. Faust, along with over 100 other university presidents and athletic directors wrote a letter condemning the NCAA for allegedly promoting irresponsible or underage drinking through its advertisements, and recommending that the tournament eliminate all alcohol advertising. While we understand the sentiment, getting rid of beer ads is the wrong move. By airing the ads, the NCAA is not encouraging underage or binge drinking—or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised...
...turned a page and paused, absorbed in a pencil sketch which he had executed as a youth on holiday by the Mediterranean sea. “That peasant girl,” he thought. “Her eyes expressed a sentiment at once so simple and so profound.” He was astonished at the skill with which his twenty-year-old self had rendered the play of light and shadow...
...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...