Word: sentimentality
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...earnestness and zeal of Anglo-Catholics only make the more pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental paganism of the Mediterranean races is veneered by Christian sentiment. To attempt to graft it on the English church is hopeless...
Three times Madame Bigot Pemjean of Paris had Premier Herriot at her mercy, but she never shot. "He looked too nice", she said, surrendering her revolver to the police. Apparently there is not only honor among thieves, but sentiment among assassins. If other murderers follow the Paris fashion in this matter? their profession will be immediately raised in the public esteem...
Chairman Wadsworth reports an overwhelming sentiment for the Coolidge-Dawes ticket among the students returning to the University. "Men from the eastern states", he says, "while recognizing certain admirable qualities in John W. Davis, believe that the nomination of Governor C. W. Bryan of Nebraska for vice-president makes the Democratic ticket impossible...
General Pershing has already received from the Congress the thanks of that body and of the American people, and now I extend to him anew the thanks of the nation for his eminent services, and feel certain that I voice the sentiment of the entire citizenry of the Republic in wishing him long life, happiness and prosperity in the retirement he has so richly earned...
...difference 'between Ach, du lieber Augustin," he explains, "and any waltz tune composed from the middle of the 19th Century onwards is the dif ference between a piece of music al most devoid of any emotion and a piece of music deeply saturated with sentiment, languor and voluptuousness. The susceptible maiden who, when she hears Ach, du lieber Augustin, feels no emotion beyond one of general cheerfulness and high spirits, is fairly made to palpitate by the luscious strains of the modern waltz ; her soul is carried swooning along undulating oceans of molasses ; she can hardly breathe...