Word: sentimentals
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...fully address the issues of artistic permanence that the ill-fated Windshield project necessarily occasions. It is notoriously hard to mount an exhibition about architecture; the finished project usually cannot be exhibited, leaving only secondary sources—photographs, drawings or models—to convey an artistic sentiment. While the Windshield exhibition does a commendable job in giving a sense of the house through these sources, it never engages with the larger issues of creation and permanence that the exhibition itself raises...
...until [yesterday], the sentiment after reading he was the leading candidate was that Murphy was thinking that he was going to be leaving,” said junior center Nate Torinus. “But nobody was sure...
Even in these country clichés, however, he stops, mocks the attempt at sentiment, and falls backs into nasty rap and screaming guitars. A few guest appearances keep the album interesting. Snoop Dogg and Rock do a misogynistic duo on the last track, and Sheryl Crow joins Rock for a coked-out modern take on the your-cheating-heart standard...
...right to counsel long predates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Medieval English common law courts recognized that the accused had to have access to a trusted source of information about the laws in order for the adversarial system of justice to be fair. This sentiment was made explicit by the 6th Amendment, guaranteeing that the accused have access to counsel to conduct his or her defense...
This is unscientific rubbish, of course—myth masquerading as reason, and sentiment pretending to be philosophy. Foes of cloning (and of abortion, further down the line) are often accused of being irrational, of basing their morality on religious dogma rather than hard evidence. But which point of view, one wonders, is more irrational—the view that an individual and unique homo sapiens comes into existence at conception (it does—ask any scientist), or the view that embryos only “become human” when they leave the petri dish and are implanted...