Word: sentimentalizing
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Sand and Arth both agreed with the sentiment behind Bush’s statement, stating their wish for the reinstatment of an ROTC program at Harvard, which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences terminated in 1969 amidst the Vietnam...
...Winsten, an associate dean at the School of Public Health who presented with Bloom in front of the MPAA, echoed this sentiment and called it a step in the right direction...
...that foot patrol, residents told American soldiers that they were relieved to have U.S. forces in the neighborhood. An Iraqi who lives in the neighborhood and reports for TIME confirmed that the sentiment seems genuine rather than simply saying what the Americans want to hear...
...effect, and how fast, given that religious extremism and aversion to the West is so entrenched in the culture you are trying to alter? -Mohammad Shamsuzzaman in San Bernardino, Calif. I don't necessarily agree with your assumption. Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people. Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life...
...Disney style is in danger of becoming a cliché itself. The pattern--set up, then puncture, set up, then puncture--is so relentless that it inoculates the audience against being spellbound, training them to wait for the other shoe to drop whenever they see a moment of sentiment or magic. Every detail argues against seeing fairyland as something special, like the constant disposable-culture gags in Shrek, in which characters shop in chain stores like Versarchery and Ye Olde Foot Locker...