Word: sentimentality
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...this little group of plays is a combination of dreaming and reality, gaiety and sadness; a power of analysis, a delicacy of sentiment, and a strength of imagination which recall respectively Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare...
...Class Day Committee have announced that this year the caps and gowns are to be furnished no earlier than the first of June; there seems, however, a general sentiment in favor of wearing the cap and gown immediately after the Easter recess, as was done last year. In case of objections to wearing a somewhat inconvenient garment, it has been suggested that the cap only should be worn. It has also been suggested that any man wearing a Senior cap should be supposed to bow to any other Senior so attired. Although such a scheme might at first incur some...
...Italy in 1812 when he met Gragiella, and by his visit to Aix where he came into relations with the original of his Elvire. As for his own personal nature, he is essentially an optimist. In this way he was able to give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator in every created thing...
Lamartine's style is immaterial and leaves to sentiment all of its natural purity. Lamartine is, therefore, for the French the poet, par excellence, and his poetry is the poetry of France par excellence...
...emeritus professorship of the History of Art, and of the promotions of Assistant Professor Wendell and Mr. C. P. Parker. We feel that in congratulating these gentlemen who have thus received recognition of valued service at the hands of the Board of Overseers, we can but be expressing the sentiment of the whole University...