Word: sentimentalization
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...Mister" Rogers, after all, never "Fred." He wore a tie even when he dressed down. He also respected children's intelligence, and while he used the Land of Make-Believe to teach lessons, he never puffed up kids with false promises and fantasy. There is no more un-Disneyfied sentiment in children's pop culture than the title of his song Wishes Don't Make Things Come True...
...deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based on a focus group. The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security--in this case, the security of the people." And yet while they are sensitive about acknowledging it, Bush's advisers are watching public sentiment carefully. A month ago, a senior official--after insisting on anonymity--ticked off polling data from the Washington Post, Fox News, the Pew Research Center, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek and TIME. "I could go on and on and on," he said impatiently. "The point remains the same. Large majorities...
This represents a significant shift for a country that has prided itself on not needing other nations to pursue its goals. In the early 1990s, public sentiment was 2 to 1 against even paying dues to the U.N. But Americans have gradually become convinced that there is an advantage to going into battle as part of an international coalition, as in first the Gulf War and later Kosovo and elsewhere...
Other students shared the sentiment that students overreacted, given the usual number of “useless” posts to the list...
...worldwide protests on February 15th. Wednesday afternoon, a White House spokesperson (reached through the media office) was similarly unimpressed by the "virtual march." "Phone calls are a useful tool for people to express their opinions," she said, "but it's not an objective or scientific way to measure public sentiment...