Word: sentimentals
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...Were we being patriotic? Trying to follow public sentiment? Maybe some of both. But a big part of the reason, if we're to be honest, is that we simply don't want to die. And call it inappropriate or laudable, that's what we were doing before we started shaking our mail for suspicious powder. Today you have Tom Brokaw clenching back purple rage on his own newscast and journalists around the country imagining their own kids in the position of that ABC producer's baby. (My own two-month-old visited my office a couple of weeks...
...don’t have to generate the sentiment,” she says. “It’s already there...
...this sentiment, above all others, that seemed to characterize fans’ responses to Wilco’s most recent Boston show, on Oct. 2 at the Avalon. A Diesel-clad, late-20-something crowd (college radio, six years ago) was, on the whole, more interested in cheap beer and idle conversation than they were in the newly [mis]conceived band. Lukewarm applause and half-hearted song requests abounded for the duration of a painfully short...
Murray logically intersperses longer poems with shorter ones throughout the collection. The longer pieces occasionally verge on the scope of epic poetry with their descriptions of sweeping narratives, and the shorter pieces, some consisting of only four or five lines, are usually terse, biting commentary. Common sentiment is promptly rejected in “Drought Dust on the Crockery,” in a mere five lines of verse, “Things were not better / when I was young: / things were poorer and harsher, / drought dust on the crockery,/ and I was young...
...This sentiment is echoed on the streets of Tehran. Ordinary Iranians see the current flurry of diplomatic activity as an opportunity to rescue the country from internal stagnation and external threat. Many, particularly those who recall the war with Iraq, fear a belligerent stance will make Iran - still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism - a target of renewed U.S. wrath. "If America attacks, we're the ones who'll have to fight," says Ali Hojjati, 20. The day after Khamenei's speech, an old man at a kiosk gazed at a headline in the right-wing paper...