Word: sentimentalized
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...such sparring, the sentiment this year is far better than it was 12 months ago. Then, as the Iraq war loomed, the board was worried that a "culture of caution" had taken root among consumers and businesses alike. Today world trade is up; oil prices didn't spike, as was feared; mergers and acquisitions are back in fashion; and U.S. consumers, boosted by President Bush's tax cut, are buying the whole world out of the doldrums. Even Japan's economy, mired in recession for much of the past decade, is growing at a healthy pace again. "There...
...This increased anti-immigrant sentiment is largely a product of a feeling that Hispanic immigrants are less likely to assimilate to “American culture.” But at the heart of the entire debate are competing concepts of national identity. For some it means Christian values, English language, and little identification with any specific ethnicity. For others it only means shared values of freedom and justice. Yet, this again, misses the crux of the issue. The truth is that there never has been a “typical” American. We are a nation of many...
...cornography, n. A type of motion picture that shamelessly and ineptly truckles in sentiment, giving viewers the sense that their nobler emotions have been corrupted, violated, pornographized...
...things that architects need to know besides how to build a wall and how to measure this and that. That captures some of the very possibly pre-professional attitude of the concentration.” VES lecturer and director of undergraduate studies Robb Moss echoes that sentiment. “I don’t think success is related to whether or students go on into the arts,” he says. “We don’t measure our success by the number of students who go on to make artwork.”Yet, even...
Paul Giamatti as Santa Claus and Vince Vaughn as his loser brother Fred, in a holiday jape from the director of Wedding Crashers and one of the writers of Cars: that should be funny. Except, no. The laughs come too rarely, the sentiment is tricked up, and this attempt at a Christmas perennial wilts faster than a cheap balsam choked with tinsel...