Word: sentimentalized
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...song went? For a hundred years, moviemakers of no special talent have known that the simple act of putting a pretty thing in jeopardy--tying Sweet Sue to the railroad tracks, killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing while you remain stony, you call it manipulative. Manipulative is just...
Broad discussions were held among the alumni, and appropriately so, for both Memorial Hall and The Memorial Church were their gifts to the University, and many views were shared. The committee of which I was a part had as its charge the canvassing of sentiment among the alumni, but I never understood my participation to be that of a neutral "fact finder," nor was that the role of the committee. My views on this subject have been well and widely known for a long period of time. As my predecessors argued for the "enemy" in World War I and World...
...This sentiment was echoed by Bashir A. Salahuddin '98, chair of the Black Men's Forum...
...sodden gambler in Some Came Running. He spends most of 1959's Rio Bravo, his best film, staring mournfully at a whiskey bottle he'd like to suck dry. Defeat glazes his eyes; it's the rare movie portrait of an alcoholic that skirts both sensation and sentiment...
...such as Chrysler." With a limited range of under 90 miles, the car is still a long way from being a practical vehicle for the long-distance drives in the California market. It's main purpose, McWhirter notes, is as a public relations vehicle. "Most of the anti-Detroit sentiment is focused in California, where they view American cars as polluting and inefficient. So this zero-emissions car will gain GM points...