Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under newly re-elected 80-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade...
...cynical politics of her era, she argued that we need “to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.” In doing so, Hillary Rodham defined her generation in terms that her classmates understood and appreciated, articulating a sentiment that many of us feel today...
...nation again finds itself headed in the wrong direction: The price of oil is increasing, and our icecaps are melting. Fewer and fewer children have health insurance, but more women are having abortions. Nearly every day, more American troops are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, but anti-American sentiment continues to grow...
...Hollywood the liberal weepie hibernates for most of the year, only to emerge in time for Academy Award consideration. Frequently, the top Oscar has gone to films of social or political sentiment, from The Life of Emile Zola and Mrs. Miniver to Dances with Wolves and Braveheart. In 2005 the Christian right's attacks on the mercy-killing plot of Million Dollar Baby may have been the spur for the Oscars that went to the film and its star, Hilary Swank...
Critics tend to be as susceptible to elevated sentiment as real people are. They love a movie that makes them cry, especially for what their politics tells them are noble reasons. Well, I'm a critic, predictably progressive and a pushover for movie sentiment. (An Affair to Remember, wipe me out one more time.) Audiences may laugh at an Adam Sandler movie, but that doesn't make it good. The same applies to a film that cozies up to an audience's political beliefs. You're welcome to cry, but don't feel good about it in the morning...