Word: sentimentalized
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...retrospective on Harvard's actions in the first United Farm Workers boycott of grapes, which generated much greater public sentiment and participation, would have been valuable. The timeline published on the day of the election was not thorough enough. Harvard students needed to know the character of debate in California, and whether other California colleges have taken a position on grapes...
Despite the emotional pitch of his anti-Microsoft sentiment, some students said they found Ellison's presentation quite reasonable...
...addition, Chan said the committee believed society was placing increased importance on science and technology, a sentiment voiced in a letter from Feldman to Ehrenreich and the committee
Regardless of whether they went home or to a friend's house or stayed on campus, students' overriding sentiment was that Thanksgiving functions primarily as an anti-climactic precursor to winter break, and just makes them anxious to go home again...
This could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off. But Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral...