Word: sentimentals
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...incidentally, good to see Williams back to his best self - riffing free-associationally on a variety of themes, instead of indulging his recent penchant for liberal-minded sentiment. I suppose it might be argued that the director, Barry Sonnenfeld, is not operating at his very best level with this material. After all, he is the auteur of the sublime Men in Black movies, which may just have been the most deliriously acute comedies of the last decade. But you have to remember that in those pictures the alien invaders often took up residence in our trashiest environments, places where...
...keep the country from becoming a failed state,” he said. “If the king leaves, the army will be shattered.”Thapa said she would also like to see the king stay, not because he unites the military, but due to her sentiment for the monarchy.“Nepal is so culturally rich, and the royal family is symbolic to Nepal,” she said. “There is a lot of respect for the royal family among some Nepalis, and I want the king there...
...lakeshore. After every sorghum harvest they draw the water in buckets and mix it with grain and hops to make pungent beer. "Our life depends on the lake," says Father Meseret Moges, 53, a priest who has lived in the monastery on the island for almost three decades. That sentiment is shared by the millions of people who live along the 6,695 km of the world's longest river. From its origins in Ethiopia and in the rolling green hills around Lake Victoria in central Africa, the Nile and its many tributaries loop through 10 countries across half...
...unbending. To many Nepalese, the King appeared arrogant and cold-hearted-he said nothing about protesters who had died, and even praised the security forces for dealing effectively with demonstrators. "We are unhappy with the King's statement," said 27-year-old university student Madan Chaulagain, reflecting the sentiment of many Nepalese. "We are not protesting to get a Prime Minister, but a real democracy. Until we get a democracy, we will be back on the streets every...
...more dated architecture of the Cambridge Savings Bank façade. “It looked like something that had been stuck there in the 80s and didn’t quite fit,” he said. Ivo I. Parashkevov ’06 expressed the same sentiment: “It doesn’t fit, [but] modernity never fits in.” According to Jeri Foutter, a CSB representative, the new clock uses LED technology and has a lower energy consumption level than the old one, which adorned the building for six years. Foutter wrote...