Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enough, now. The mourning, and all the indulgence that goes with it, ought to have been set aside. But patience, sympathy and sentiment-in finally impossible amounts-are what is needed for listening to Milk and Honey, twelve songs by John Lennon and Yoko Ono intended to follow up their Double Fantasy alburn, before murder intervened...
...loss. Harvard receives such high marks for its tolerant atmosphere. I would not venture a dissenting view. Yet, this subtle gesture indicates plainly an appalling and unacceptable private prejudice where I, frankly, had not observed one. When such sentiment foments openly, we can rationally challenge it. But if it remains submerged, only given to autonomous, spiteful assaults, we are left with our anger, puzzlement, and fear...
...Congress barred funding of a mission to the Vatican as a result of antipapal sentiment. President L Truman tried to re-establish ties in 1951 but was forced to back down. Congress repealed the prohibition in November with little opposition...
...prisons. But after he met some of the homicidal brutes there and found out what crimes they had committed to earn their tuition, he said he was glad they had prisons with great big bars to hold people like that. In the real world, forgiveness sometimes makes sense as sentiment, but not as social policy...
Brighton Beach Memoirs. Neil Simon mixes slapstick and sentiment in his autobiographical play about an American family, that secret society where the passwords are forgive and remember...