Word: sentimentalization
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...extolling health workers, who will be named "revolutionary martyrs" if they die fighting the virus. Across Beijing, public venues from cinemas, karaoke parlors to swimming pools and basketball courts were closed. That left people little choice but to stay home and watch cheesy variety shows aimed at buoying populist sentiment in these panicked times. A catchy excerpt from one poem on Beijing TV: "We have the closest feelings for the central leadership. We are Beijingers. The city government shares our popular feeling...
Many stop short of speculating that Lewis’ departure reflects a rise of anti-athletic sentiment in the University administration. But many also agree that athletes are losing one of their biggest supporters at the moment when administrators in the College and around the Ivy League are considering potentially drastic changes to academic standards, forced rest time and a reduction in the number of admitted recruits...
...Over the years the excesses got worse in the NCAA, and the Ivy League got pulled along,” Lewis says. “Several steps behind, but...these things only went in one direction. Some of the intensity-decreasing sentiment comes from a feeling that all of that went...
Such is not a sentiment that surprises those who know her best...
...which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag--Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row--but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean speak, he did just about everything better in Vermont--a rhetorical tic that is beginning to get on the nerves of his fellow candidates...