Word: sentimentalizing
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...Roller seems resigned to the infeasibility of receiving grant money from the University. “I know that we’ve made the College aware of our financial difficulties, but there’s not much that they can do,” he says. This sentiment is not far removed from Plant’s reluctance to ask the Student Activities Office for guidance, and it might be true that Harvard students are simply too independent for their own good. But the administration is hardly ready to change its policies to ensure that the Mock Trial Team...
Ryan S. Nolan ’09 expressed a similar sentiment...
...He’s a fastball-changeup guy, and they just drove him the other way over and over again,” he said. “Our hitters did a great job against a very good pitcher.” Harvard coach Joe Walsh echoed the sentiment. “I’m really pleased that we knocked Staehely out,” Walsh said. “He’s the kid that ended our season last year. I thought we were really patient, and we were taking pitches, getting deep in the count...
...only of the ballads that does Stone’s voice justice. The lyrics are sub-par (“Love ripped me up and tore me down / But baby that ain’t enough to break me”), but the apparent sincerity of the sentiment makes the ballad seem less trite than most of its type. The other ballads, though, are markedly worse. “What Were We Thinking” is just plain boring. Without a quirky beat or bouncy back-up vocals, Stone is left with just her voice and the lyrics to keep...
...what it was: a little lazy and a bit too cute. The double-album format was an excuse to reissue Murphy’s DFA singles on the second disc, and the first frontloaded the fun, partying a bit too hearty with the opening cuts. Any attempts at sentiment felt artificial. What a difference two years have made. Murphy’s always known how to build a song, but here, every track climbs slowly to its inevitable peak. When the two titular words of opener “Get Innocuous” make their sole appearance in the song...