Word: sentimentalization
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...their business practices, and the fact that neo-liberal economists do their best to couch their policies in terms of “development” and “poverty reduction,” suggests that the human rights cause has solidly won the battle for public sentiment. Hence, it may seem somewhat pointless to ask whether we have an obligation to be ethical consumers...
...made of his own life. On “Fuck Forever,” he sings that, “Happy endings, they never bored me.” But in an album that contains the word “death” in nearly every song, the sentiment sounds hollow. Listeners anxious for Doherty to recapture the verve he displayed with the Libertines will have to wait a little while longer. In the mean time, there’s always the next “Next Big Thing.” Arctic Monkeys, anyone...
...cause I thought I might find a wife.” While a few dogged interviewees listed the celebration of culture and community as draws to the biggest Shabbat dinner in Harvard history, Adam J. Scheuer ’06 was not alone in his smart-ass sentiment. So many of the students polled by FM offered up some variant of the search to “identify a provider,” as Jack P. McCambridge ’06 put it, that FM had to stop another would-be jokester mid-sentence to preserve our sanity before...
...Members of the corporation are clearly concerned about the sentiment of the faculty, as they should be,” Gordon wrote in an e-mail...
...embassies burning, or the pledges of decapitation for offending cartoonists, or the priest shot dead while praying in his church in Turkey. Whether it was a singularly disturbing violent act or the coalescing of many vile reactions, I have been gripped by the ongoing Danish cartoon jihad, and my sentiments have settled with that rare union of outrage and scholarly interest.From these Muslims at the beginning of the 21st century, the history student within detected a certain resonance with the pre-modern Church and the way it dealt with dissidents.I’d like to be satiated...