Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame? Partly the students. Because of the "pious sentiment" that everybody should go to college, "a halo has been cast about the word 'college,' and ... as a consequence there is a blind rush...
Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...
...only to sink at last to thievery and the lockup. "An ordinary country girl, neither pretty or plain" who takes a free & easy view of human foibles, including her own, she is obviously a 20th Century descendant of Moll Flanders. Like Moll, Sara discovers that when she lets her sentiment rule her shrewdness, she usually suffers...
...kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest sentiment do not become M. Sacha Guitry...
...does for his literary judgment. Of his own writing, Lord Dunsany once said that it dealt with "the mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins." Bridie Steen deals with a more recognizable geography (the scene is the Irish border county of Fermanagh), but it is a land where sentiment is surrounded by sentimentality...