Word: sentimentalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's diamonds. He entered the South African Parliament, and nine years later was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. By bribery, intrigue, diplomacy, persuasion, force he worked to bring about a united South Africa. Like most men of action a mixture of cynic and sentimentalist, he made no bones of his tricky actions but could not bear to have his ambition thought sordid...
Great was the applause when Ohio's Supreme Court Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen rose to speak. No sentimentalist, Florence Allen struggled long & hard for a lawyer's degree, practiced successfully in Cleveland, studied international law to find a way to abolish war. As Judge of Cuyahoga County Court of Common
...equally strong advocate of indeterminate sentences, with the length dependent on the individual rather than on the crime. All this has been said before, but usually in an atmosphere of sentimentality which disgusts surfeited auditors. Whatever else one may say of Lawes, he is not a sentimentalist; he has something new to say, and his arguments ring forth hard and clear, saturated with common sense, buttressed by specific experience...
...Vagabond, it has been observed with depressing frequency, is a sentimentalist. He likes Strauss in music, Dickens in literature, Munchenbrau in drinks. From the sickly thought of divisionals and finals he turns to dream of the budding green things which on days like this defy the name of the Blue Hills; of dripping paddles moving on a quiet river: of everything which fortunate people have always done in May. He is even that worst of sentimentalists, one who loves a tradition for its own sake, and regrets its passing. New things may be best, but the old are consecrated...
...work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots...