Word: sentimentalizing
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...Juno” soundtrack with former Moldy Peaches bandmate Kimya Dawson. Green’s latest solo album may deliver a sarcastic shock or two to newer fans familiar with only his latest claim to fame. The album begins exuberantly and— though Green masks this sentiment in countless clever guises—it remains so throughout. The array of genres is dizzying. Green croons unabashedly on “Tropical Island,” coupling stereotypically lilting island music with lyrics like “Ring-ding, another one dies / Watching posers scandalize / Trading off their panty lines...
...average American church is strangely out of tune with the Pope’s sentiment. American preachers seldom mention animal rights, except as evidence of the excesses of secular radicalism. National polls show an inverse correlation between church attendance and support for animal rights. Churches celebrate the blessing of the animals on the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, and then largely ignore animal ethics for the rest of the year...
Pope John Paul II had a similar view. He believed that “animals possess a soul” and are “as near to God as men are.” Nor is this sentiment new: Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was the patron of the French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Pope John XXIII (1958-63) declared that “man must never hurt animals, must never ill-treat them, nor torture them physically.” In Saint Thomas Moore’s Utopia, the slaughtering of animals...
...unsettled Hearts. But although we are the children of our parents, we have entered other countries in which the rules of Marriage—Love Marriage, Arranged Marriage, and all that lies in between—do not always apply.” Perhaps Ganeshananthan’s sentiment is not original, but it is certainly beautiful...
...custody after being arrested at Princeton University, Hogue reveals his rationale for such extraordinary lies, a desire anyone can relate to: “I wanted to start all over again, without the burdens of my past.”And it is with this statement, a profoundly American sentiment, that “The Runner” gets complicated. Isn’t it part of American values to be self-made? Aren’t people fibbing and embellishing their own accomplishments all around us all of the time? So where does a person draw the line between...