Word: sentimentalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...immediate risk is that China could still be awash in antiforeigner sentiment in August, when Beijing will welcome the world for the Olympic Games. It would take only a couple of instances of violence against foreigners to undo years of official campaigns to make the capital extra-hospitable--coaxing Beijingers to learn English and stop spitting in the streets, for example...
...Harvard’s credit that it both nurtured their anti-slavery, abolitionist sentiment and benefitted from the anti-slavery ferment in New England,” Brophy said...
...This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe - that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well. The Pennsylvania primary had been a six-week exercise in diminution, with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - and Bill Clinton too - losing altitude and esteem on an almost daily basis. Even as he spoke, the former President...
...details and the cast’s animated performances bring immediacy to the characters, who command the audience’s full attention. “Our city lives have left us wanting more excitement,” the characters sing in the opening scene, expressing a sentiment with which many students trapped between papers and midterms can identify. The musical’s book, co-written by Jacqueline P. Palumbo ’11 and Adam R. Gold ’11, who is also a Crimson editorial writer, was part of a production composed by and put together...
Some helpful pollsters may soon tell us what American Catholics - and Americans in general - made of Benedict's week. Some churchgoers expressed to us the sentiment that Benedict had succeeded not only in putting them more at ease regarding his understanding of the abuse scandal, but had gone a long way in turning himself into a moral icon on a par with his religious importance as Christ's vicar. Yet not everyone is so impressed. Asked today if the trip had made her feel better about the church, a mother of young girls at the Miami church pursed her lips...