Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Chettle of the South Africa Foundation, a private group which reports to South Africa on American sentiment on these argued that "South Africa does not need isolation but more American investment...
...valued ideals over ideology. He tried to strike a correct socialist attitude toward Dickens, and could not quite pull it off: "His whole 'message' is one that looks at first glance like an enormous platitude: If men would behave decently the world would be decent." But the sentiment, he concluded, "is not such a platitude as it sounds." Indeed, for all the pessimism attributed to him posthumously, Orwell had an abiding, almost pious faith in the ability of that fragile, querulous species, humankind, to correct its deficiencies by the most radical process of all: thinking. In The Road...
...gotten to the point where the Justices do not do this anymore, but I do have a little sentiment for Harvard," he said and explained. "This was my college and my law school, so I can't walk through the Yard with out feeling some sentiment...
...brilliance of his book is the reasoning behind it. On the surface, Oz's goals are simple and direct: Israel out of Lebanon, now. No more annexation, and full-scale peace with her neighbors. Lest his demands begin to sound like as Israeli version of the American anti-Vietnam sentiment of the 60s, Oz couches his goal in a sophisticated humanitarian vision...
Four months ago, according to The Times, a poll found that voters approved of the Nuclear Free resolution by two to' one. But an enormous assault by well-financed military contractors was able to reshape that popular sentiment in time for the election. It would take a few hundred thousand dollars, but the corporations could be sure that they were spending their money on nothing more generous than their own economic self-interest...