Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night in 2003 when he accepted the Oscar for his documentary Bowling For Columbine and made headlines with an anti-war outburst that ended with the proclamation "Shame on you! Shame on you!" directed at President Bush. Moore said that today "70% of the country agrees with [that sentiment]. They don't support Bush or the war. I am now in the mainstream majority, which is weird; I don't sit out on the edge, I sit here." Moore ticked off each of his films, and recounted the ways he believes the world has caught up with his sentiments. With...
...worse. This spring, thousands of Buddhist monks took to Bangkok's streets clamoring for their beliefs to be designated in the constitution as Thailand's sole state religion. On June 4, charter writers rejected the call for an official faith, but growing pro-Buddhist (and, by extension, anti-Muslim) sentiment could doom the new constitution when it faces a referendum in August...
...Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, who served on the task force, echoed Skocpol’s sentiment...
...should be nervous if the timetable becomes too ambitious. We do not want this to result in, as it were, mandated failure,” the second-time dean said. (“No no, that’s a bad phrase,” Knowles added, but the sentiment was clear...
...embroidery on shawls, dresses and wedding dresses, an art which had been slowly deteriorating. Laila Neamatallah first approached local grandmothers, urging them to pass their embroidery skills on to their daughters and granddaughters, proposing that the women work as embroiderers at home so as not to offend the local sentiment...