Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues of the hour. Huff and puff as they might, no candidates were able to whip up any meaningful support for antiwar protests. Nor was there any evidence of reaction against the Johnson Administration's Great Society legislation. There were no measurable swings toward either liberal or conservative sentiment; there was not even any contest between Kennedy Democrats and Humphrey loyalists. Nor did the new black-power militancy of the American Negro influence the voting to any great extent...
...year was 1924, and an upstart Massachusetts Republican named Joseph W. Martin Jr., 39, launched a no-holds-barred campaign to wrest a congressional seat away from a sickly 83-year-old incumbent. "This is not a time for sentiment," snapped young Joe Martin in announcing his candidacy. "The office of Congressman is a position for one in vigorous health if the people are to be adequately served...
Using nonprofessional actors in all but the principal roles, Forman has collected a gallery of picture-perfect types. They not only look right; they smash the formulas of sex comedy. They sleep through situations that usually call for sobby sentiment, squabble when they should be snoring, sulk when they should be squirming. Altogether human, thus seething with quirky surprises, they satisfy the primal need of festivalgoers who forever sit down in darkness hoping that small miracles may come to light...
Instead of an ethereal poetic sentiment, the daughter wrote
...even to some Frenchmen, the De Gaulle-Debre policy is beginning to appear piggish. Reflecting widespread sentiment, Cartoonist Jacques Faizant last week portrayed France as a piggy bank stuffed with gold instead of the truffles that most Frenchmen would prefer. The Paris daily Le Monde bluntly labeled the French accumulation of gold as "sterile stockpiling...