Word: sentimentalization
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...Most questioned the timing of the execution, which struck many Iraqis as needlessly rushed.? But amid the differing thoughts and opinions about Hussein's end one sentiment was widely apparent: apathy.? People seemed to care very little about the passing of Hussein, who's been a ghost figure in Iraq for some time.? Iraqis by and large stopped watching Hussein's trial months ago as his fate became clear.? Even when Hussein was sentenced to death in early November, Iraqis shrugged at the news and remained focused on the many pressing problems facing anyone struggling to find a normal life...
...song?s sentiment was common, almost a trope, in '50s R&B: Baby, please don?t go, cause I love you so. (Ray Charles did two or three in this vein.) But, as one of Brown?s rare songs with more than three chords, it had some musical ingenuity: a desperate statement following by him and the saxes in a slow, keening descent...
...Sittar paints his transformation into a U.S. supporter in Iraq as an epiphany flowing from the realization that al-Qaeda was an evil force destroying life for him and others in Ramadi. The tribal leaders who've gathered under his banner, about 40 in all, echo the sentiment, which seems sincere enough even if other motives have factored into their decision to take up the cause now, three years into the insurgency. The U.S. is simply glad that the enemy of its enemy is now a friend. MacFarland acknowledges that the reasons Sittar and other tribal leaders have for cooperating...
...Which sets me to thinking about another virtuosa vocalist. Isn't it odd, and sad, that k.d. lang - the supreme lyric reader of our time, the modern singer without rival at making sentiment sound like world-weary wisdom - hasn't done a Christmas album? That would be a lovely present under next year's tree...
...That sentiment was echoed by Theresa Sharratt, mother of Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, 22, from Carbondale, Pa. "There's no way that I believe what's being said about that day," she told TIME. "He did what he was trained to do. They're Marines. That's their job. We're at war... He just feels let down. He hasn't told us that; I can see it in his eyes. He did his job and this is what happened...